Digital Comic Museum - Wings Comics 004 -JVJon


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Issue: #4
Published: December 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Will Eisner [as Wm. E. Eisner] (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)
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. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Raiders of the Steel-Ripped Skies
Featuring:	Phantom Falcons
Credits:	Pencils: Gene Fawcette \| Inks: Gene Fawcette
Genre:	Aviation War

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Skull Squad
Synopsis:	Chuck Dawson and the Skull Squad secretly engage in a private air raid to even the score with Hartmann.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Ace Atkins] \| Pencils: Arthur Peddy \| Inks: Arthur Peddy; ?
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Hartmann (villain, Introduction) Chuck Dawson (introduction) Jimmy Jones Kent Douglas Sandy MacGregor

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Parachute Patrol
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pat Powers] \| Pencils: Henry Kiefer \| Inks: Henry Kiefer; ? [shop]
Genre:	War
Characters:	Lord Roslyn (guest-star) Tommy Blimbo Curly Otto

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Jane Martin
Credits:	Script: ? [as Fred Hawks] \| Pencils: Al Gabriele? \| Inks: Dan Zolnerowich?; ? [shop]
Genre:	War
Characters:	Tom Raleigh (guest-star)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Raiders of the Steel-Ripped Skies
Featuring:	The Phantom Falcons
Credits:	Script: ? [as Kit Gleason] \| Pencils: Leonard Frank \| Inks: Leonard Frank
Genre:	War

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Clipper Kirk
Credits:	Script: ? [as Rick Ayers] \| Pencils: Witmer Williams \| Inks: Witmer Williams; ?
Genre:	War

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Wing Tips
Credits:	Pencils: Gene Fawcette \| Inks: Gene Fawcette
Genre:	Non-fiction

Text Story (2 pages)	Dodo Squadron
Credits:	Script: ? [as Frank Crawford] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	War

Comic Story (3 pages)	Tanks By Plane
Credits:	Inks: ? [shop]
Genre:	Non-fiction
Characters:	Another "What If?" Story

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	F4 of the air intelligence
Credits:	Script: ? [as Alexander York] \| Pencils: Alex Blum \| Inks: Alex Blum; ?
Genre:	War
Characters:	A Phony C. O. (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Powder Burns
Credits:	Script: ? [as Clyde North] \| Pencils: Klaus Nordling \| Inks: Klaus Nordling?
Genre:	War
Characters:	Elmo Lint (Cosmo Dust's Cousin, Introduction) Amelia Lint (his Daughter, Introduction)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Suicide Smith
Credits:	Script: ? [as Larry Shaw] \| Pencils: Witmer Williams \| Inks: Witmer Williams; ?
Genre:	War

Comic Story (6 pages)	Spitfire Ace
Featuring:	Captain Derek West
Credits:	Script: ? [as Ken Norwood] \| Pencils: Klaus Nordling \| Inks: Klaus Nordling
Genre:	War
Characters:	Tim Cassidy [Spitfire Ace] (introduction, Origin)

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	Greasemonkey Griffin
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jay Ryder] \| Pencils: George Tuska \| Inks: George Tuska
Genre:	War
Characters:	Jim Hawk (introduction) Gen. Fritz (villain, Introduction)

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