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| Date | | Number: 8 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Wings Comics 8 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: every month |
| Notes | Interesting issue: Gene Fawcette takes over as Art Director and the "authors" on half the strips change: Parachute Patrol now by "Casey McKay" instead of "Pat Powers," etc. And many new artists show up. Appears as if Fiction House is bringing production in house. |
| Cover | The Wings of Doom / 1 page |
| Genre | War |
| Pencils | Gene Fawcette |
| Inks | Gene Fawcette |
| Letters Page | No Title |
| Feature | Wings' Air Mail |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
| Comic Story | The Wings of Doom / Skull Squad (7 pages) |
| Genre | Aviation; War |
| Script | Ace Atkins |
| Pencils | Art Peddy |
| Inks | Art Peddy |
| First Line | The first giant four-motored flying fortresses have... |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. |
| Story | The Parachute Patrol (6 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Casey McKay] |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | V: Karl and other spies (I for all); I: Col. Howard |
| Pencils | Bob Butts ? |
| First Line | Far from the furnaces of the great mill... |
| Story | Jane Martin (6 pages) |
| Script | ? [as F. E. Lincolm [sic]] |
| Inks | ? (shop) |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | V: Heinrich and another Nazi (I for both); I: Three gunners |
| Pencils | Al Gabriele |
| First Line | A delirious British aviator drags himself to the... |
| Notes | Female faces resemble Al Gabrielle, but others seem more like Alex Raymond swipes or Al Bryant. Definitely done by diverse hands. HW suggests some Vern Henkel. |
| Story | The Phantom Falcons (7 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Kit Gleason] |
| Genre | War |
| Pencils | Leonard Frank |
| Inks | Leonard Frank |
| First Line | Taking advantage of Italian reverses in Greece, the... |
| Comic Story | Spy Hawk / Captain Derek West (5 pages) |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Tim Cassidy |
| Script | Derek West |
| Pencils | Frank Schwarz ? |
| Inks | Frank Schwarz ? |
| Notes | Capt. Derek West is a fictional author. Art on final two pages also resembles an artist named Jay. |
| Illustration | Scouts of the Sea (2 pages) |
| Feature | Wing Tips |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Aviation |
| Pencils | Gene Fawcette |
| Inks | Gene Fawcette |
| Text Story | The Man Who Turned Tail (2 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Gordon Wayne] |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | War |
| Comic Story | Subterranean Airdrome (3 pages) |
| Genre | War |
| Pencils | John Cassone ? Al Walker (page 1) |
| Notes | A "What if?" story |
| Story | Suicide Smith (8 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers] |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | GS: The Haywire Squadron; I: Cmdr. Cawthorne |
| First Line | All is quiet, or so it seems... At the... |
| Notes | Reminiscent in places of Gabrielle and Jenney and ? |
| Story | F4 of the Air Intelligence (6 pages) |
| Pencils | Jay ? |
| Inks | Jay ? |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | I: J-9; V: A Japanese spy ring (I) |
| Script | Bill Fox |
| First Line | F-4, America's daring secret agent, steps from a... |
| Notes | Resembles very much an artist who signs "Jay" in the late 1940s. |
| Story | Clipper Kirk (6 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Cliff Debois] |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | V: Teddy Watson (I) |
| Pencils | Ed Smalle |
| Inks | Ed Smalle |
| First Line | Clipper Kirk is with an RAF squadron somewhere... |
| Story | Greasemonkey Griffin (6 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Jay Ryder] |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | I: Ace Hawks |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling |
| First Line | C'mon, Grif. Wrap yourself in a parachute. I'm... |
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