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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published July 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Pat Masulli

Cover Details - "The 50th Mission"

Genre War
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Vince Alascia
Notes Cover not signed, but uses a splash page from inside which is, hence credits above.

4 page story "A Pro Is Born"

Genre War
Notes Set in World War 2.

6 page story "The Human Factor"

Synopsis Cold war story as Communist bogies test the nerve of America's air defences over the Polar skies.
Genre War
Pencils Charles Nicholas (signed)
Inks Vince Alascia (signed)

4 page story "The Last Barrier"

Synopsis A "What If" story set during the Cuban missile crises. An unarmed US jet convinces a Russian freighter, loaded with technicians, to turn back by convincing the captain the pilot will crash-dive into the ship if he doesn't.
Genre War

2 page text article "From New York to Victory"

Synopsis Account of the happenings in 1781, during the war for American independence.
Genre War; Fact
Letters Typeset
Notes Story reads like it is part of a continuing feature.

4 page story "The Killer Group"

Genre War
Notes Korean War story.

7 page story "50th Mission"

Characters Major Art Moore
Synopsis As Moore nears his fiftieth combat mission, after which he can return home, the pressure starts to get to him, causing friction with his less experienced crew. His superiors offer him the chance of leave, but he turns them all down. After mission fifty, he volunteers for ten more, so he can help out a new crew.
Genre War
Pencils Charles Nicholas (signed)
Inks Vince Alascia (signed)