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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published September 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing John F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Ruth Atkinson (Editor)
Notes All info [except feature] added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

Cover Details - "Rockets Away!"

Genre war
Pencils Joe Doolin
Inks Joe Doolin
Notes All info [except feature] added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Big Six of the Comic Magazines"

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

10 page Captain Wings story "This patrol stuff's driving me daffy...same old..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf
Notes Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

8 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "My goo'ness! How'm I s'posed to read these instructions..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Alex Blum; ?
Inks Harvey Fuller?; (shop)
Notes Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Suicide Smith story "Mohammed's holy crown in the hands of Hitler's..."

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

6 page Skull Squad story "High above Norway's fjords, a Catalina noses down..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks David Heames?
Notes Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page

Synopsis Comprised of letters sent in by the readers.
Letters typeset
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wing Tips filler "Catalina PBY5-A"

Synopsis Features stats on this aircraft.
Genre fact
Pencils Ruth Atkinson?
Inks Ruth Atkinson?
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Jane Martin story "Early one morning at an AAF base in Italy..."

Genre war
Script ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils Ruth Atkinson; Fran Hopper?
Inks Ruth Atkinson?; ?
Notes Story title and genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

2 page text story "Thunder Behind Tokio"

Genre war
Script ? [as Jans Jorgesen]
Letters typeset
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

7 page Clipper Kirk story Rockets Away ["In a briefing hut in England: Sure glad to..."]

Synopsis Story title taken from the cover.
Genre war
Script ? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils Jack Keller (signed)
Inks Jack Keller (signed)
Notes Genre, writer credit and art verification added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).