Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1949-06-09
Taps for the Sky Snake
Taps for the Sky Snake
Captain Wings
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cover /
1
page
Captain Wings
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cover /
1
page
- Genre:adventure; aviation
in Indexer Notes
Note that the cover image is taken from a reversed stat of the first panel of the Captain Wings story, with two characters and a staircase added on the upper right to achieve the correct proportions.
Issue Data
- Publisher's Brand:
Fiction House Magazines
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Wings Pub. Co. Inc.
- Indicia Frequency: monthly
- Printer: ?
Indexer Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1949 Periodicals, page 287.
[Taps for the Sky Snake]
[Taps for the Sky Snake]
Captain Wings
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comic story /
9
pages
Captain Wings
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comic story /
9
pages
- Genre:adventure; aviation
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:Throughout America's offices, files labelled 'ships lost in...'
Characters:
Captain Wings
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
[The Phantom of Berlin]
[The Phantom of Berlin]
Ghost Patrol / Ghost Squadron
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comic story /
7
pages
Ghost Patrol / Ghost Squadron
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comic story /
7
pages
| Script: | Derek West (credited as Capt. Derek West) |
| Pencils: | Maurice Whitman (signed) |
| Inks: | Maurice Whitman (signed) |
| Colors: | ? |
| Letters: | ? |
- Genre:detective-mystery; aviation
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:For many days the Germans' V-2 rockets had been...
Characters:
Ghost Squadron
Indexer Notes
Title from cover blurb
[no title indexed]
[no title indexed]
Suicide Smith
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comic story /
6
pages
Suicide Smith
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comic story /
6
pages
| Script: | A. E. Carruthers (credited as Capt. A. E. Carruthers) |
| Pencils: | Alvin Hollingsworth (signed) |
| Inks: | Alvin Hollingsworth (signed) |
| Colors: | ? |
| Letters: | ? |
- Genre:adventure; aviation; war
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:'El Carcel del San Vaca'...high sloping walls...
Characters:
Suicide Smith
Reprints (1)
Col. Don Blakeslee
Col. Don Blakeslee
Air Heroes of World War II
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text article /
2
pages
Air Heroes of World War II
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text article /
2
pages
- Genre:non-fiction; aviation; war
Indexer Notes
illustrated text story
[no title indexed]
[no title indexed]
Jane Martin
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comic story /
6
pages
Jane Martin
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comic story /
6
pages
| Script: | F. E. Lincoln (signed) (house name) |
| Pencils: | George Evans (signed) |
| Inks: | George Evans (signed) |
| Colors: | ? |
| Letters: | ? |
- Genre:crime; adventure
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:Jason Kirby, famous Hollywood star, who last year...
Characters:
Jane Martin; Jason Kirby; Dr. John Range (Kirby's physician); Olan Zenba (VILLAIN)
- Synopsis:
- An old friend of retired movie star Jason Kirby, Olan Zenba, is bent on revenge and wants to kill the star because Kirby has refused to use his novel as the basis for new film Kirby is producing.
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in Wings Comics (Trent, 1960 ? series) #1 ([1960]) -
in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #5 ([May 2003]) [in black and white] - in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #85 ([April] 2011) [in black and white]
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Reprints (3)
Table of Contents
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Taps for the Sky Snake
Captain Wings -
[Taps for the Sky Snake]
Captain Wings -
[The Phantom of Berlin]
Ghost Patrol / Ghost Squadron -
["'El Carcel del San Vaca'...high sloping walls..."]
Suicide Smith -
Col. Don Blakeslee
Air Heroes of World War II -
["Jason Kirby, famous Hollywood star, who last year..."]
Jane Martin
Related Links
Issue was modified by, among others
- Pat Conolly
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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