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Wings Comics, #29

Published: January 1943

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Wings Comics #29

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Issue Contents:
Buzzards From Berlin
1 page aviation; war
Credits
2 Thrilling Jungle Books! (1)

Featuring Wambi

Story 1 1 page jungle
Storyline

Promotional ad for Sheena #2 (Winter 1942) and Wambi #2 (Winter 1942).

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Wambi
Credits
Story Notes

Inside front cover. Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Promo ad shows the cover of Sheena #2 with art credited to Dan Zolnerowich and Wambi #2 with art credited to Henry Kiefer.

Story 2 10 pages aviation; war

"Hell diver headquarters somewhere in Australia. The ground officer..."

Characters
  • Capt. Boggs
  • Link
  • Capt. Wings
  • Black Widow
  • unnamed Japanese admiral
Credits
Story Notes

Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Story 3 8 pages aviation; war

"Murder via Mexico! G-2, the US army intelligence..."

Characters
  • Col. Cadiz
  • Suicide Smith
  • Alfonzo
  • Miguel
  • Hinda
  • Chino Vicente
  • Major Rudley
  • Joe
Credits
Story Notes

Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Story 4 8 pages aviation; war

"Our hero, in his dirtiest overalls, is busy..."

Characters
  • Greasemonkey Griffin [Greasemary]
  • Duke of Cordenton
  • Duchess of Cordenton
  • Hodges
Credits
Story Notes

Story title, genre, writer credit and character appearances added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Swan-Song For Zeros
Story 5 5 pages aviation; war

"Ensign Tom Baxter, U.S.N., is making a play for a native dancer..."

Storyline

Story title also appears on the cover.

Characters
  • Tom Baxter
  • Lt. Joe McKenna
  • Pearl
  • Bruce
Credits
Story Notes

Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). All lettering with the exception of one caption on first page is typeset. Text runs across the tops of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects.

Meet the Thunderbolt!

Featuring Wing Tips

Story 6 2 pages non-fiction; aviation

"The prototype of this model is a huge craft."

Credits
Story Notes

Instructions and pattern to build a wooden model of the Republic P-47 plane.

Buzzards From Berlin (1)
Story 7 7 pages aviation; war

"The fortunes of war have temporarily split the..."

Characters
  • Jimmy
  • Kent
  • Sandy
  • Rosa
  • Nazis
Credits
Story Notes

Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). The story title is taken from the cover.

Story 8 4 pages war

"War makes strange bunk mates. At Kelly Field barracks..."

Characters
  • Calhoun (last appearance)
  • Bertram Harvey
  • Miss Wilton
  • Col. Wilton
Credits
Story Notes

Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Three Bull's-Eye Designs for Victory!

Featuring Wings of America club page

Story 9 1 page aviation

"Howard Rice of Upper Darby, PA. submits this..."

Storyline

Reproduces aircraft design drawings submitted by Howard Rice, Emery Brunett and Floyd Johnson.

Story Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

To the Air-minded Girls... (1)

Featuring Wings' Air Mail

Story 10 1 page

"C'mon gals! Keep 'em flying!"

Credits
Story Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Story title taken from the title of the first letter. Letters of comment from Bobbie Gates; George Moore; Joe Creighton; Joe Yazell; S.P. Wilburton; Lester McAdams.

Col. Frank Armstrong USAAF
Story 11 2 pages aviation; biography; war

"Dawn... at an airdrome somewhere in England."

Characters
  • Col. Frank Armstrong
  • Nazis
Credits
Story Notes

Genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). All lettering with the exception of one caption on first page is typeset. Text runs across the bottoms of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects.

Story 12 6 pages war

"Through a blacked out London night, Jane returns to..."

Characters
  • Jane Martin
  • Hilde Loffler
  • Z-4
  • Atkins
Credits
Story Notes

Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Block Busters for Berlin
Story 13 2 pages aviation; war

"Windy McPherson started to get pale at the gills in the..."

Storyline

Windy receives orders that his squadron is to bomb Berlin and he is filled with anxiety at getting caught by the Nazis.

Characters
  • Windy McPherson
  • Col. Bullfinch [Bull-head]
  • Capt. Vic Clark
  • Giggler Donegan
Story Notes

Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Story 14 8 pages war

"U.S. beats U-boat menace with huge cargo planes..."

Characters
  • Clipper Kirk
  • Flying Fox
  • Tonia
Credits
Story Notes

Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

The Big Six of the Comics Magazines

Featuring Fiction House

Story 15 1 page

"Why guess? Get the best"

Storyline

Promotional ad for Fiction House comics.

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Kaänga
  • Ann Mason
Story Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Promo ad in color on inside back cover showing the covers of Wings Comics #29; Jumbo Comics #46; Jungle Comics #36; Rangers Comics #8; Fight Comics #22; Planet Comics #22.

Story 16 1 page

"The 97 pound weakling - who became "the world's most perfectly developed man.""

Characters
  • Charles Atlas (photo)
Story Notes

Back cover. Ad for the Dynamic Tension method of bodybuilding.