Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1949-05-25
Editing: Jack Byrne (managing editor); William Shelton (editor)
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Operation Satan
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Captain Wings / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:adventure; aviation

Indexer Notes

Cover later redrawn for H. John Edwards' Wings #8.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

This is the first issue of Wings comics not to contain Jane Martin. On-sale date given in the previous issue.

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Operation Satan
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Captain Wings / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
T. E. Bowen (credited as Major T. E. Bowen)
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  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When Captain Wings was assigned to stop those five American fliers who were fighting on the rebel side against Colonel Zoltam's recognized government...
Characters:
Captain Wings; Carmen Mornay; Griper; Commander Hunter; Colonel Zoltam (villain); Emanuel Mornay
Synopsis:
Captain Wings is being set up as a traitor by Colonel Zoltam.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

Emanuel was called Emmanuel in the previous issue.

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King of the Congo / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A strange girl of the jungle wilds led her spotted terror packs on nightly raids - and struck only at Bertha Lawson's vast concession outposts.
Characters:
leopard girl; Mrs. Bertha Lawson; Jud Lawson; King; Jingo
Synopsis:
In the Katangah Swamp, a Leopard Girl is trying to gain ownership of Bertha Lawson's jungle outpost.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Last appearance.

Lt. Col. Duane Beeson
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Air Heroes of World War II / text article / 2 pages

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  • Genre:non-fiction; aviation; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:One cold, gray morning in the early days of the European war, a lone spitfire slipped through cloud-banked skies above the channel, bound for the continent.
Characters:
Duane Beeson
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Illustrated text article of the war career of Duane Beeson.

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Suicide Smith / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
A. E. Carruthers (credited as Capt. A. E. Carruthers)
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  • Genre:adventure; aviation; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Crack-up! In tangled Latin-American jungle, on a tiny, inaccessible plateau, the transport crashed.
Characters:
Suicide Smith; Jughead; Mr. Johnson; Michael Shea (Villain, Death); Carlos (Villain, Death)
Synopsis:
Smith and company attempt to rescue the survivors of a plane crash from the Jivaro Indians.
Reprints (2)

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Ghost Patrol / Ghost Squadron / comic story / 8 pages

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Derek West (credited as Capt. Derek West)
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  • Genre:detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Richard Green Born in Devonshire, March 3, 1902. Educated at Eton and Cambridge.Joined the British air force on September 20, 1914.
Characters:
Ghost Squadron; Camille (a French girl); Jeff (a pilot); Lt. Richard Green (a ghost); Mama Marie (Villain, nazi); Nazis (Villains); Captain West
Synopsis:
A pilot is rescued by a French girl who lives in a haunted villa, where he learns the story of a WWI pilot framed as a traitor and then killed by Mama Marie.
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Jowett Institute of Physical Training / advertisement / 1 page

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Scope Sales Corp. / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Operation Satan
    Captain Wings
  2. ["The big six of the comics!"]
  3. Operation Satan
    Captain Wings
  4. ["A strange girl of the jungle wilds led her spotted terror packs on nightly raids - and struck only at Bertha Lawson's vast concession outposts."]
    King of the Congo
  5. Lt. Col. Duane Beeson
    Air Heroes of World War II
  6. ["Crack-up! In tangled Latin-American jungle, on a tiny, inaccessible plateau, the transport crashed."]
    Suicide Smith
  7. ["Richard Green Born in Devonshire, March 3, 1902. Educated at Eton and Cambridge.Joined the British air force on September 20, 1914."]
    Ghost Patrol / Ghost Squadron
  8. ["Let's go, pal! I'll prove I can make you an "all-around" he-man"]
    Jowett Institute of Physical Training
  9. ["Be the first in your crowd to own this all-new heart-beat purse!"]
    Scope Sales Corp.
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