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Issue Details

Issue #v1 #8
Published May 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Ed Cronin

Cover Details

Characters Airboy; Birdie
Genre aviation

1 page advertisement Practice for the Soldier's "I.Q." Test!

Synopsis ad for Practice Publications US military IQ test study guide
Notes inside front cover

13 page Airboy story "The Deadly Double"

Characters Airboy; Lee; Birdie; Watu
Synopsis Airboy exposes a Japanese spy substituted for a Chinese flier.
Genre aviation
Script Dick Wood
Pencils Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inks Tony DiPreta (signed)

10 page Iron Ace story "The Bogus Battalion"

Characters Iron Ace
Synopsis Iron Ace flies medical supplies to a group of Americans besieged in the desert by Germans and Japanese.
Genre aviation
Pencils Al Ulmer ?
Inks Al Ulmer ?

5 page Skinny McGinty story "Herman the Talking Fish"

Characters Skinny McGinty
Synopsis Flying fish help Skinny foil a Japanese attack on San Francisco.
Genre aviation
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

11 page Sky Wolf story "The Return of Von Tundra"

Characters Sky Wolf; Judge; Cocky; Turtle; Baron Von Tundra; Mr. Rossdale; Sammy
Pencils Bob Fujitani (signed)
Inks Bob Fujitani (signed)
Notes 2nd app. of Baron Von Tundra

2 page text story "Eagles Don't Fail"

Letters typeset

7 page Bald Eagle story "Death Takes a Plane"

Characters Bald Eagle; Death
Synopsis Bald Eagle foils a Japanese hypnotism plot
Genre aviation
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

8 page Black Angel story "The Inventions of Dr. Von Future"

Characters Black Angel; Adolf Hitler; Dr. Von Future (intro)
Synopsis Black Angel foils a Nazi plot to use machines from the future to build a road across the English Channel
Genre aviation
Pencils John Cassone
Inks John Cassone

8 page Flying Dutchman story "The Suicide Bombers"

Characters Flying Dutchman
Synopsis The Dutchman discovers a plot by the Nazis to use Japanese suicide bombers.
Pencils Al Ulmer
Inks Al Ulmer

1 page advertisement "Fun -- Sports -- Thrills -- Games"

Synopsis ad for Knickerbocker Publications' games kit
Notes inside back cover

1 page advertisement "Amazing Forecaster!"

Synopsis ad for Weather Man's Swiss Weather House
Notes Back cover