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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published May 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing John F. Byrne (Editor)

Cover Details - "Hell's Cargo"

Genre war
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf

10 page Captain Wings story "And the torch of freedom which burned at..."

Characters V: Capt. Hashika (I), the Japanese
Genre war
Script ?
Pencils Ruben Moreira [as Rubimor]
Inks Ruben Moreira [as Rubimor]

8 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "A bumper crop of inventors blooms in the..."

Characters I: Lord Penbroken, Prof. Poppen J. Ipswitch; V: Hermann Goering, Nazis
Genre war
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Alex Blum; Gus Schrotter
Inks Alex Blum; ?

6 page Clipper Kirk ["They began building her in 1940 with the..."] story "Hell's Cargo "

Characters GS: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek; V: The Nazis
Genre war
Script ? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils Lee Elias (signed)
Inks Lee Elias (signed)
Notes The story title is taken from the cover.

6 page Skull Squad story "An RAF base in England:" "Sorry Jimmy, no mail..."

Characters V: The Nazis
Genre war
Script ? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils Ruth Atkinson (signed)
Inks Ruth Atkinson (signed)

1 page Wing Tips filler "The Hellcat"

Genre fact
Pencils Ruth Atkinson (signed)
Inks Ruth Atkinson (signed)

5 page Jane Martin story "At allied GHQ on the island of Gibraltar:"]

Characters V: The Nazis; I: Pilo and three pilots
Genre war
Script ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils Lily Renee (signed)
Inks Lily Renee (signed)

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page "n/a"

2 page Yank Aces of World War II story "The Hero of Djebel Bou Arada"

Genre war
Pencils Alex Blum; Arnold Hicks?
Inks Arnold Hicks; [shop]
Notes The "Yank Aces..." title is not used here and the hero is an infantryman.

2 page n/a text story "Thunder In the Alps"

Genre war
Script ? [as L. L. Trent]
Letters typeset

7 page Suicide Smith story "Somewhere in the northern Balkans:" "This makes the seventh..."

Characters I: Trina; V: The Nazis
Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils Lee Elias (signed)
Inks Lee Elias (signed)