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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published August 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
Notes Story titles, page count and genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue updated by HS/HW/JV in Dec. 2006.

Cover Details - Messengers of Doom; "Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk; The Flying Tiger

Genre war
Pencils Gene Fawcette (signed)
Inks Gene Fawcette (signed)

1 page Rangers Comics advertisement "untitled"

Synopsis Promotional ad for Rangers Comics #6.
Pencils various
Inks various
Notes Found on the inside front cover. Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

7 page Skull Squad story "Many brave men fly in the ranks of..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils Arthur F. Peddy
Inks Arthur F. Peddy; ?
Notes Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

8 page Suicide Smith story "Smith visits San Francisco's Fremont hospital:"

Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils Joe Doolin
Inks Joe Doolin
Notes Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Captain Derek West story "Flying Tiger"

Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils George Appel
Inks George Appel
Notes Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). The cover title includes "The" while the title on the story splash page does not.

10 page Captain Wings and the Hell-Diver Squadron story Messengers of Doom ["Having earned the title of Captain Wings during..."]

Genre war
Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils Maxwell Elkan
Inks Maxwell Elkan; Rudy Palais?
Notes Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Story title is taken from the blurb on the cover.

2 page A solid scale model of the Navy Dive Bomber SBD-1 activity "Build the Plane on the Cover"

Genre aviation
Pencils Gene Fawcette (signed)
Inks Gene Fawcette (signed)
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wing Tips filler "Whirlwind, Britain's Secret Fighter"

Genre fact
Pencils Gene Fawcette (signed)
Inks Gene Fawcette (signed)
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

4 page Calhoun of the Air Cadets story "With the squadron off on maneuvers, Lee field..."

Characters Calhoun (intro)
Genre war
Script ? [as Pat Cavenagh]
Pencils Pagsilang Rey Isip
Inks Pagsilang Rey Isip?
Notes Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wings of America Club Page promo (ad from the publisher) "untitled"

Synopsis Reproduces aircraft design drawings submitted by Charles Clark and William Leach.
Genre fact
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page "untitled"

Synopsis Wings' Club letters page, comprised of letters sent in by readers.
Letters typeset
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "Greasemonkey Griffin is daydreaming again. Someday he'll be..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Al Walker
Inks Al Walker
Notes Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

2 page text story "Tailspin Trial"

Genre war
Script ? [as Douglas Bell]
Pencils ? (2 panels art)
Inks ? (2 panels art)
Letters typeset
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Jane Martin story "British planes over occupied France brave murderous A-A fire..."

Genre war
Script ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils Nick Viscardi (signed)
Inks Nick Viscardi (signed)
Notes Story title, genre, writer credit and art pen-name added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

2 page Yank Aces of World War II story "Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk

Characters Jack Newkirk
Synopsis Story title on the cover adds "The Death of a Hero."
Genre war
Pencils Pagsilang Rey Isip?
Inks Pagsilang Rey Isip?
Notes Genre and part of the synopsis added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

8 page Clipper Kirk story "Clipper is on the bomb-scarred British base at Malta..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils Art Saaf (signed)
Inks Art Saaf (signed)
Notes Story title, genre, writer credit and art pen name added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Fiction House advertisement "The Big Six of the Comic Magazines"

Synopsis Promotional ad for Fiction House Comics.
Pencils various
Inks various
Notes Found on the inside back cover. Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).