Issue Details

Issue	#53
Published	January 1945
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	John F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Ruth Atkinson (Editor)

Cover Details - "Robot Death Over Manhattan"

Genre	war
Pencils	Art Saaf
Inks	Art Saaf

10 page Captain Wings story "Closer...closer roared the red-balled plane--closer to..."

Characters	Captain Wings
Genre	war
Script	? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils	Lee Elias (signed)
Inks	Lee Elias (signed)
Reprinted	in Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #112 (1950) [abridged/modified]

8 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "After an evening's mess, our hero wastes some..."

Characters	Greasemonkey Griffin
Genre	war
Script	? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum?; shop

8 page Suicide Smith story "Somewhere in England a lone Typhoon noses down..."

Characters	Suicide Smith
Genre	war
Script	? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils	Jack Keller
Inks	Jack Keller?

1 page Wing Tips filler "Flying Catfish"

Genre	fact
Pencils	Gene Colan?
Inks	Gene Colan?

6 page Skull Squad story Robot Death Over Manhattan ["C.O. paging us. I wonder what's up?"]

Characters	Skull Squad
Genre	war
Script	? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils	Matt Baker
Inks	Matt Baker; [shop]
Notes	The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page "Wings' Air Mail"

Letters

typeset

5 page Jane Martin story "Many details lie buried in the electric shock..."

Characters	Jane Martin
Genre	War
Script	? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Notes	HS and HW guess Atkinson and Isip, respectively, but I don't see either of them. This is too crude.

2 page text story "Peace With a Pencil"

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

7 page Clipper Kirk story "Up the Tyrrhenian plows a Navy carrier...against..."

Characters	Clipper Kirk
Genre	war
Script	? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils	Gene Colan (signed)
Inks	Gene Colan (signed)