Digital Comic Museum - Wings Comics 030


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February 1943; paper; ctc; my scan

Issue: #30
Published: February 1943, 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: Story titles, genre, editor and page count added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HW/HW/JV. Updated 2/2016 by BD. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Monsters of the Stratosphere
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Aviation War

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)	3 New, Different Comics!
Featuring:	Rangers; Wambi; Sheena
Synopsis:	Promotional ad for Sheena #2 (Winter 1942), Rangers Comics #9 (February 1943) and Wambi #2 (Winter 1942).
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Sheena Wambi

Comic Story (10 pages)
Genre:	War
Characters:	Capt. Wings Link Capt. Boggs Major Burns Dipper Hunchie

Comic Story (8 pages)
Genre:	War
Characters:	Suicide Smith Hinda General Bard Gruber Fuisha

Comic Story (2 pages)	Lieut. John James Powers
Synopsis:	Lt. Powers flies a bomber in the third battle of the Coral Sea.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Aviation Biography War
Characters:	Lt. John James Powers

Comic Story (8 pages)
Synopsis:	Griffin loses a set of blueprints for a plane, so he makes up a set of blueprints himself to replace the lost set; the Nazis steal the fake blueprints and manufacture a plane based on Griffin's design.
Genre:	War
Characters:	Greasemonkey Griffin Nazis Col. Atkins

Text Story (3 pages)	Crash Dive for the Jackpot
Synopsis:	Jack receives a letter from his parents letting him know that the family barns burned down from a lightning strike; wishing to help his folks, Jack bets on himself to win a pool amongst the aviators.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Douglas Bell] \| Pencils: ? (1 panel art) \| Inks: ? (1 panel art)
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Jack Moulton Steve Weber Chip Kinny Mac Leavitt

Activity (2 pages)	Hitler's Latest Sky-Slugger
Featuring:	Model Airplane Builder's Plans
Genre:	Non-fiction Aviation

Comic Story (7 pages)	Monsters of the Stratosphere
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Kent Douglas Sandy MacGregor Jimmy Jones Schwarzvogel [Blackbird] Franz

Comic Story (6 pages)	Graveyard Flight
Synopsis:	Mason and Barnes steal a plane to hunt for a German air base.
Credits:	Letters: ?; typeset
Genre:	War
Characters:	Lt. Chuck Mason Red Barnes Nazis

Illustration (1 page)	Meet a Brace of TB's
Synopsis:	Two aircraft drawings.
Genre:	Non-fiction Aviation

Illustration (1 page)
Featuring:	Wings of America Club Page
Synopsis:	Comprised of aircraft drawings sent in by readers Guy Holt Jr., Allan Slayton, and Edward Samut.
Genre:	Aviation

Letters Page (2 pages)	Posolutely a Joik
Credits:	Pencils: ? (illustrations) \| Inks: ? (illustrations) \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Jane Martin poses as a German nurse to tend to a captured Nazi in order to glean information from him.
Genre:	War
Characters:	Jane Martin Haask Nazis Heller

Comic Story (8 pages)
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Clipper Kirk Tonia Nazis Hans Sahdi

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)	The Big Six of the Comics Magazines
Featuring:	Fiction House
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason Sheena Flint Baker

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