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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)