Digital Comic Museum - Wings Comics 024 (GM)


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Issue: #24
Published: August 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
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, page count and genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue updated by HS/HW/JV in Dec. 2006.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Messengers of Doom; "Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk; The Flying Tiger
Featuring:	Captain Wings
Credits:	Pencils: Gene Fawcette (signed) \| Inks: Gene Fawcette (signed)
Genre:	War

Advertisement (1 page)
Featuring:	Rangers Comics
Synopsis:	Promotional ad for Rangers Comics #6.
Credits:	Pencils: various \| Inks: various

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Skull Squad
Credits:	Script: ? [as Ace Atkins] \| Pencils: Arthur F. Peddy \| Inks: Arthur F. Peddy; ?
Genre:	War

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Suicide Smith
Credits:	Script: ? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers] \| Pencils: Joe Doolin \| Inks: Joe Doolin
Genre:	War

Comic Story (6 pages)	Flying Tiger
Featuring:	Captain Derek West
Credits:	Script: ? [as Capt. Derek West] \| Pencils: George Appel \| Inks: George Appel
Genre:	War

Comic Story (10 pages)	Messengers of Doom
Featuring:	Captain Wings and the Hell-Diver Squadron
Credits:	Script: ? [as Major T. E. Bowen] \| Pencils: Maxwell Elkan \| Inks: Maxwell Elkan; Rudy Palais ?
Genre:	Aviation War

Activity (2 pages)	Build the Plane on the Cover
Featuring:	A solid scale model of the Navy Dive Bomber SBD-1
Credits:	Pencils: Gene Fawcette (signed) \| Inks: Gene Fawcette (signed)
Genre:	Aviation

Illustration (1 page)	Whirlwind, Britain's Secret Fighter
Featuring:	Wing Tips
Credits:	Pencils: Gene Fawcette (signed) \| Inks: Gene Fawcette (signed)
Genre:	Non-fiction Aviation

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	Calhoun of the Air Cadets
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pat Cavenagh] \| Pencils: Pagsilang Rey Isip \| Inks: Pagsilang Rey Isip?
Genre:	War
Characters:	Calhoun (intro)

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Featuring:	Wings of America Club Page
Synopsis:	Reproduces aircraft design drawings submitted by Charles Clark and William Leach.
Genre:	Non-fiction

Letters Page (1 page)
Featuring:	Wings' Air Mail
Synopsis:	Wings' Club letters page, comprised of letters sent in by readers.
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Greasemonkey Griffin
Credits:	Script: ? [as Kip Beales] \| Pencils: Al Walker \| Inks: Al Walker
Genre:	War

Text Story (2 pages)	Tailspin Trial
Credits:	Script: ? [as Douglas Bell] \| Pencils: ? (2 panels art) \| Inks: ? (2 panels art) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	War

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Jane Martin
Credits:	Script: ? [as F. E. Lincoln] \| Pencils: Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed) \| Inks: Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)
Genre:	War

Comic Story (2 pages)	"Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk
Featuring:	Yank Aces of World War II
Synopsis:	Story title on the cover adds "The Death of a Hero."
Credits:	Pencils: Pagsilang Rey Isip? \| Inks: Pagsilang Rey Isip?
Genre:	War
Characters:	Jack Newkirk

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Clipper Kirk
Credits:	Script: ? [as Cliff Dubois] \| Pencils: Art Saaf (signed) \| Inks: Art Saaf (signed)
Genre:	War

Advertisement (1 page)	The Big Six of the Comic Magazines
Featuring:	Fiction House
Synopsis:	Promotional ad for Fiction House Comics.
Credits:	Pencils: various \| Inks: various

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