Issue Details

Issue	#71
Published	July 1946
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)
Notes	Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

Cover Details - " The Kamikaze Bird-Cage"

Genre	war
Pencils	Lee Elias
Inks	Lee Elias
Notes	Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

10 page Captain Wings story The Kamikaze Bird-Cage ["Colonel Kamikaze's clever scheme to spread distrust among..."]

Characters	V: Col. Kamikaze
Genre	war
Script	? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils	Bob Lubbers (signed)
Inks	Bob Lubbers (signed)
Notes	The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page Jane Martin story "The secret must be kept at any cost..."

Genre	adventure
Script	? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils	Fran Hopper
Inks	Fran Hopper

6 page Greasemonkey Griffith story "All hands man the stomach pumps!"

Genre	humor
Script	? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils	Al Walker (signed)
Inks	Al Walker (signed)

5 page Air Aces of World War II biography (nonfictional) "Pappy" Boyington

Genre	fact
Letters	typeset
Notes	Illustrated text story. HS suggests Hopper? and HW speculated Peppe? Not much to go on.

6 page Suicide Smith story Daredevil of the Skyways ["Take a jungle adventurer, an old professor, and..."]

Genre	adventure
Script	? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils	John Celardo (signed)
Inks	John Celardo (signed)
Notes	The story title is taken from a cover blurb.
Reprinted	in Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #114 (Summer 1951)

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

Letters

typeset

6 page Phantom Falcon story "Fascism's slimy tentacles lashed out from underground, seeking..."

Genre	spy
Script	? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils	Joey Cavallo
Inks	Joey Cavallo

8 page Ghost Squadron story "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the charge..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils	Rafael Astarita
Inks	Rafael Astarita
Notes	formerly Ghost Patrol