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| Date | | Number: 31 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Heroic Comics 31 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | War |
| Pencils | Harvey Fuller (painting) (signed) |
| Inks | Harvey Fuller (painting) (signed) |
| Colors | Harvey Fuller (painting) (signed) |
| Comic Story | Poker Bluff (3 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Lt. Melvin Toler |
| Script | Don Rico ? |
| Pencils | Don Rico (signed) |
| Inks | Don Rico (signed) |
| First Line | Bravery may just be a word... |
| Notes | Writer/inker credits added by Craig Delich 2012-12-24 per Rico interview in Alter Ego #114 (December 2012). |
| Text Story | The Baby Patrol (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Eighty-one children trapped in a chateau in no man's land are brought to safety by an American patrol. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Capt. George Schneider |
| Script | Wade Dent |
| Pencils | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| Inks | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| First Line | Eighty-one children trapped in a chateau in no man's land. |
| Comic Story | By the Skin of Their Teeth (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | An American air crew rescued by a British air-sea flyhing boat in the English channel. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Lt. Roman Maziarz |
| Script | Leo Rifkin (see notes) |
| Pencils | W. B. Smith (see notes) |
| Inks | W. B. Smith (see notes) |
| First Line | This American crew of a Flying Fortress... |
| Notes | Per the Eastern Color 1943-1945 ledger at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford, Connecticut, Eastern Color Printing, during the December 1944 ledger period, Leo Rifkin was paid $8.00 for a 2 page script, and W. B. Smith was paid $28.00 for 2 pages of art, which makes this the only story that qualifies. Artwork was originally identified from a scan at the Digitial Comic Book Museum (DCM )from a book in the Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. collection as possibly Chu F. Hing. |
| Comic Story | Freeing the Maquis (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A daring attack by RAF Mosquito planes on a German prison camp in France. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | R.A.F. pilots |
| Script | Hy Vigoda (see notes) ? |
| Pencils | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| Inks | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| First Line | One of the most amazing and spectaular exploits... |
| Notes | According to the Eastern Color 1943-1945 ledger at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford, Connecticut, Eastern Color Printing paid Hy Vigoda $12.00 for a three-page script during the December 1944 ledger period. It is unknown which of the 3 three-page stories that the writer of is unidentified that he did the script for. So Vigoda is tentatively credited on all three stories. |
| Text Story | Death Looked Over His Shoulder (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Lt. Richard Lightfine |
| Script | Emanuel Demby |
| Pencils | Harvey Fuller (spot illustration, see notes) |
| Inks | Harvey Fuller (spot illustration, see notes) |
| First Line | It isn't easy to be the pilot of a bomber. |
| Notes | Per Keith Chandler: Fuller art - compare the profile of the pilot with that on the previous page. Per the Eastern Color 1943-1945 ledger at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford, Connecticut, Eastern Color Printing, during December 1944, Emanuel Demby was paid $12.50 for 1 page of script. |
| Comic Story | Winner of the Victoria Cross (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Junior officer Jemadar of the Indian Army was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross fighting the Japanese in the Battle of Imphal in North-East India in 1944. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Jemadar Abdul Hafiz |
| Script | Hy Vigoda (see notes) ? |
| Pencils | Harvey Fuller ? |
| Inks | Harvey Fuller ? |
| First Line | Jemadar Abdul Hafiz fought the Japs heroically... |
| Notes | Art ID from scan at DCM from a book in the Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. collection. Uncertain credit, and also a guess at Charles M. Quinlan. According to the Eastern Color 1943-1945 ledger at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford, Connecticut, Eastern Color Printing paid Hy Vigoda $12.00 for a three-page script during the December 1944 ledger period. It is unknown which of the 3 three-page stories that the writer of is unidentified that he did the script for. So Vigoda is tentatively credited on all three stories. |
| Text Story | The 'PT' Destroyer (1 page) |
| Synopsis | An American destroyer comes to the rescue of British gunboats attacked by two German corvettes off the coast of France on D-Day 1944. The destroyer sinks both the corvettes. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Commander John D. Bulkeley |
| Script | Wade Dent |
| Pencils | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| Inks | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| First Line | The radio call for help came from British gunboats... |
| Comic Story | What do You Know About Weather (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Weather men on the staff of General Eisenhower. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Pencils | Charles Bange (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Bange (signed) |
| First Line | Planes - tanks - troops - by the thousands... |
| Notes | Art ID from scan at DCM from a book in the Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. collection. |
| Comic Story | 504 Nazis- At One Clip (3 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Sergeant Rooney |
| Script | Hy Vigoda (see notes) |
| Pencils | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| Inks | Harvey Fuller (signed) |
| First Line | Three hours before the sea invasion of Normansy... |
| Notes | According to the Eastern Color 1943-1945 ledger at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford, Connecticut, Eastern Color Printing paid Hy Vigoda $12.00 for a three-page script during the December 1944 ledger period. It is unknown which of the 3 three-page stories that the writer of is unidentified that he did the script for. So Vigoda is tentatively credited on all three stories. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Yard Bird |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Characters | Yardbird (private) |
| Script | Ed Lipowski (see notes) |
| Pencils | Ed Lipowski (see notes) |
| Inks | Ed Lipowski (see notes) |
| First Line | Aw shut up! |
| Notes | Per the Eastern Color 1943-1945 ledger at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford, Connecticut, Eastern Color Printing, during the December 1944 portion of the ledger, Ed Lipowski, credited there as Edward Lipowski, was paid $20.00 for script and art on a one page story. All other one page one page stories in this issue have credits that are accounted for. Lipowski is not credited in the comic itself, only in the payment ledger. Art identification was originally given tentatively to Dan Templar based on a scan at the Digitial Comic Book Museum (DCM) off a book from the Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. collection. |
| Comic Story | No Title (6 pages) |
| Feature | The Kid From Brooklyn |
| Genre | Adventure; Sports |
| Characters | Hal Avery (the kid from Brooklyn); his mother ; his brother Bob; Boyle (fight promoter); Prossky (boxer); Jimmy Krantz (boxer) |
| Script | Woody Gelman (signed) |
| Pencils | Woody Gelman (signed) |
| Inks | Woody Gelman (signed) |
| First Line | Side tracked from an art career by his mother's illness... |
| Comic Story | No Title (6 pages) |
| Feature | Vitaman |
| Genre | Humor; Superhero |
| Characters | Vitaman |
| Script | Charles W. Winter (signed) |
| Pencils | Charles W. Winter (signed) |
| Inks | Charles W. Winter (signed) |
| First Line | Golly! Look at the bandages! |
| Comic Story | The Room that Wasn't There (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A juggler keeps people on the street occupied while his friends steal a truck with second hand furniture. |
| Feature | The Music Master |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Music Master [John Wallace]; Downbeat; Don Reynolds |
| Script | Stephen Douglas |
| Pencils | Gus Schrotter ? |
| Inks | Gus Schrotter ? |
| First Line | A cunning and baffling roberry.... |
| Notes | Last appearance. Writer verified by the Who's Who and added by Craig Delich 2013-2-13. Art identification from scan at DCM from a book in the Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. collection. |
| Story | Flyin' Jenny (3 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Aviation; War |
| Characters | Flyin' Jenny Dare; Spinner Martin; Rick Davis; Cyril |
| Script | Frank Wead |
| Pencils | Russell Keaton |
| Inks | Russell Keaton |
| First Line | I never saw those incendiary capsules... |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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