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Publication | July 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
Notes | Probable Zolnerowich work on cover figures. |
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Cover | Battling Eagles of Bataan |
Featuring | Captain Derek West |
Credits | Pencils: Gene Fawcette?; Dan Zolnerowich? | Inks: Gene Fawcette? | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War |
Notes | Probable Zolnerowich work on cover figures. |
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Publisher advertisement | Have You Seen the Sensational New Rangers Comics? (1 page) |
Featuring | Rangers Comics |
Credits | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich;? | Inks: Dan Zolnerowich;? |
Notes | Promo ad in color on inside front cover showing the cover of Rangers of Freedom #5 along with four panels of art from that issue. |
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Featuring | Skull Squad |
Credits | Script:? [as Ace Atkins] | Pencils: Arthur F. Peddy | Inks: Arthur F. Peddy |
Content | Genre: War |
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Comic Story | Traitor Bait (8 pages) |
Featuring | Suicide Smith |
Credits | Script:? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers] | Pencils: Joe Doolin | Inks: Joe Doolin |
Content | Genre: War |
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Comic Story | Battling Eagle of Bataan (6 pages) |
Featuring | Capt. Derek West |
Credits | Script:? [as Captain Derek West] | Pencils: George Appel | Inks: George Appel | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War |
Notes | All lettering is typeset. Text runs across the tops of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects. |
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Featuring | Captain Wings and the Hell-Diver Squadron |
Credits | Script:? [as Major T. E. Bowen] | Pencils: Maxwell Elkan | Inks: Rudy Palais? |
Content | Genre: War |
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Activity | Build the Curtiss P-40F (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: Gene Fawcette? | Pencils: Gene Fawcette (signed) | Inks: Gene Fawcette (signed) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
Notes | Templates to build a scale model airplane. |
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Illustration | Help Protect America! (1 page) |
Featuring | Wing Tips |
Credits | Pencils: Gene Fawcette? | Inks: Gene Fawcette? |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
Notes | Silhouettes of four combat aircraft: Cant Z.509 (Italy), Savoia-Marchetti SM.55X (Italy), Blohm and Voss HA.140 (Germany), Dornier DO.26 (Germany). |
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Featuring | Parachute Patrol |
Credits | Script:? [as Casey McKay] | Pencils: Aldo Rubano?; Pagsilang Rey Isip? | Inks: Aldo Rubano?; Pagsilang Rey Isip? |
Content | Genre: War |
Notes | HS suggests Isip as a possibility here, but it doesn't look too much like the signed Isip in issue #25. Last appearance. |
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Featuring | Wings of America club page |
Credits | Script:? [as Captain Wings] | Pencils: Kingdon Piehl; C. G. Collins Jr.; Henry Hayashida | Inks: Kingdon Piehl; C. G. Collins Jr.; Henry Hayashida |
Content | Genre: Aviation |
Notes | Reproduces aircraft design drawings submitted by Kingdon Piehl, Henry Hayashida, and C. G. Collins Jr. |
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Letters Page | Suicide Up - Greasemonkey Down (1 page) |
Featuring | Wing's Air Mail |
Credits | Script:? (editor's note) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Greasemonkey Griffin |
Notes | Letters of comment from Jack Mathes, Herbert Behrens, Chris Hauer, Jr., Cal Overholt, John Mesinger. Bottom third of the page has application to join the Wings of America Club. |
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Featuring | Greasemonkey Griffin |
Credits | Script:? [as Kip Beales] | Pencils: Al Walker | Inks: Al Walker |
Content | Genre: Humor; War |
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Text Story | Prey for the Eagle's Talons (2 pages) |
Credits | Script:? [as Sheridan Gray] | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War |
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Featuring | Jane Martin |
Credits | Script:? [as F. E. Lincoln] | Pencils: Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed) | Inks: Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed) |
Content | Genre: War |
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Synopsis | The crew of a US Navy bomber crash land at sea and must survive 34 days adrift in shark filled waters of the Pacific. |
Featuring | Yank Aces of World War II |
Credits | Pencils: Pagsilang Rey Isip? | Inks: Pagsilang Rey Isip? | Letters:?; typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War | Characters: Harold Dixon; Tony Pastula; Gene Aldrich |
Notes | All lettering with the exception of one caption on first page is typeset. Text runs across the bottom of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects. |
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Featuring | Clipper Kirk |
Credits | Script:? [as Cliff Dubois] | Pencils: Art Saaf | Inks: Art Saaf |
Content | Genre: War |
Notes | The artist's name "Arthur Saaf" appears on a paper drawn in the splash panel. |
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Publisher advertisement | The Big Six of the Comics Magazines (1 page) |
Notes | Promo ad in color on inside back cover showing the covers of Wings Comics #22; Jumbo Comics #40; Jungle Comics #30; Rangers of Freedom #5; Fight Comics #19; Planet Comics #19. |
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Publisher advertisement | Sing a Song of Sudden Death (1 page) |
Featuring | Senorita Rio; Fight Comics |
Credits | Pencils: Nick Cardy; Dan Zolnerowich | Inks: Nick Cardy; Dan Zolnerowich |
Content | Characters: Senorita Rio |
Notes | Promo ad in color on back cover shows the cover of Fight Comics #19 with art credited to Dan Zolnerowich and two panels from the Senorita Rio feature with art credited to Nick Cardy. |
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