Digital Comic Museum - Wings Comics 001 (paper)


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Issue: #1
Published: September 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior; Glossy Cover Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure Aviation War
Characters:	Suicide Smith

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	The Skull Squad and their squadron are given orders to bomb a newly built Nazi gas and oil refinery in Norway.
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	The Skull Squad [Jock MacGregor Jimmy Jones Kent Douglas] (introduction, Origin) The Nazis

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	The Parachute Patrol flies to Montage to rescue Doc Brown.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pat Powers]
Genre:	War
Characters:	The Parachute Patrol [Tommy Blimpo Curly] (introduction, Origin) Doc Brown (introduction) Mrs. Measly The Nazis

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Jane helps to evacuate the town of Millett before it is bombed. As Jane is leaving the town after the evacuation, a nearby factory is bombed and Jane helps to rescue the survivors.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Fred Hawks]
Genre:	War
Characters:	Jane Martin (introduction) Tom Raleigh (introduction) The Nazis (villains) Dupres

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Clipper Kirk helps to fend off a naval and aerial attack on a convoy of ships transporting Canadian troops to assist the British against the German army.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Rick Ayres]
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Clipper Kirk (introduction) The Nazis

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Rex discovers that Karlson is sabotaging a project to develop a new plane.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Alexander York]
Genre:	War
Characters:	F-4 [Rex Keene Name Revealed In Issue #13] (introduction) Sir Maccom (introduction) Paul Karlson (introduction, Death) Gottfried (introduction, Death) Lt. Pierce

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	Suicide Smith flies a one-man mission to discover a hidden Nazi air base.
Credits:	Inks: ? [shop]
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Suicide Smith (introduction) The Nazis

Comic Story (3 pages)
Credits:	Script: ? [as Greg Fielding] (credited)
Genre:	War
Characters:	Jack Wright (introduction)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	Tom Slade becomes a member of the Phantom Falcons.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Kit Gleason]
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	The Phantom Falcons [Tom Slade Jerry McGuire Dale Parker Akely] (introduction, Origin) Mr. Joe Davis Elsie Davis (his Daughter) The Nazis

Comic Story (2 pages)
Genre:	Non-fiction

Text Story (2 pages)	The Hardluck Ace
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	War
Characters:	Lt. Geoffrey Dean Duke Byers Capt. Alan Miles Major Cole

Comic Story (4 pages)
Synopsis:	Greasemonkey Griffin, dreaming of being a pilot, steals a plane.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jay Ryder]
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Greasemonkey Griffin (introduction) The Nazis

Comic Story (7 pages)
Credits:	Script: ? [as Clyde North]
Genre:	War
Characters:	"Powder" Burns (introduction) Cosmo Dust Sven Knutsen Eunice (introduction) Porter Von Stellub (introduction, Death) The Nazis

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