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Publication | January 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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Cover | Buzzards From Berlin |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War |
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Publisher advertisement | 2 Thrilling Jungle Books! (1 page) |
Synopsis | Promotional ad for Sheena #2 (Winter 1942) and Wambi #2 (Winter 1942). |
Featuring | Wambi |
Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Sheena; Wambi |
Notes | Inside front cover. Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Promo ad shows the cover of Sheena #2 with art credited to Dan Zolnerowich and Wambi #2 with art credited to Henry Kiefer. |
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Featuring | Captain Wings and the Hell-Diver Squadron |
Credits | Script:? [as Major T. E. Bowen] |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Capt. Boggs; Link; Capt. Wings; Black Widow; unnamed Japanese admiral |
Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Credits | Script:? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers] |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Col. Cadiz; Suicide Smith; Alfonzo; Miguel; Hinda; Chino Vicente; Major Rudley; Joe |
Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Featuring | Greasemonkey Griffin |
Credits | Script:? [as Kip Beales] |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Greasemonkey Griffin [Greasemary]; Duke of Cordenton; Duchess of Cordenton; Hodges |
Notes | Story title, genre, writer credit and character appearances added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Comic Story | Swan-Song For Zeros (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Story title also appears on the cover. |
Featuring | Captain Derek West |
Credits | Script:? [as Capt. Derek West] | Letters:?; typeset |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Tom Baxter; Lt. Joe McKenna; Pearl; Bruce |
Notes | Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). All lettering with the exception of one caption on first page is typeset. Text runs across the tops of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects. |
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Activity | Meet the Thunderbolt! (2 pages) |
Featuring | Wing Tips |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
Notes | Instructions and pattern to build a wooden model of the Republic P-47 plane. |
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Comic Story | Buzzards From Berlin (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Jimmy; Kent; Sandy; Rosa; Nazis |
Notes | Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). The story title is taken from the cover. |
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Featuring | Calhoun of the Air Cadets |
Credits | Script:? [as Pat Cavenagh] |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Calhoun (last appearance); Bertram Harvey; Miss Wilton; Col. Wilton |
Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Illustration | Three Bull's-Eye Designs for Victory! (1 page) |
Synopsis | Reproduces aircraft design drawings submitted by Howard Rice, Emery Brunett and Floyd Johnson. |
Featuring | Wings of America club page |
Credits | Pencils: Howard Rice; Emery Brunett; Floyd Johnson | Inks: Howard Rice; Emery Brunett; Floyd Johnson |
Content | Genre: Aviation |
Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Letters Page | To the Air-minded Girls... (1 page) |
Featuring | Wings' Air Mail |
Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Story title taken from the title of the first letter. Letters of comment from Bobbie Gates; George Moore; Joe Creighton; Joe Yazell; S.P. Wilburton; Lester McAdams. |
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Comic Story | Col. Frank Armstrong USAAF (2 pages) |
Featuring | Yank Aces of World War II |
Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
Content | Genre: Aviation; Biography; War | Characters: Col. Frank Armstrong; Nazis |
Notes | Genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). All lettering with the exception of one caption on first page is typeset. Text runs across the bottoms of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects. |
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Featuring | Jane Martin |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Jane Martin; Hilde Loffler; Z-4; Atkins |
Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Text Story | Block Busters for Berlin (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Windy receives orders that his squadron is to bomb Berlin and he is filled with anxiety at getting caught by the Nazis. |
Credits | Script:? [as Douglas Bell] | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Windy McPherson; Col. Bullfinch [Bull-head]; Capt. Vic Clark; Giggler Donegan |
Notes | Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Content | Genre: War | Characters: Clipper Kirk; Flying Fox; Tonia |
Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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Publisher advertisement | The Big Six of the Comics Magazines (1 page) |
Synopsis | Promotional ad for Fiction House comics. |
Featuring | Fiction House |
Content | Characters: Sheena; Kaänga; Ann Mason |
Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Promo ad in color on inside back cover showing the covers of Wings Comics #29; Jumbo Comics #46; Jungle Comics #36; Rangers Comics #8; Fight Comics #22; Planet Comics #22. |
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Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Charles Atlas (photo) |
Notes | Back cover. Ad for the Dynamic Tension method of bodybuilding. |
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