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Wings Comics, #53

Published: January 1945

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Wings Comics #53

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Issue Contents:
Robot Death Over Manhattan
1 page war
Story 1 10 pages war

"Closer...closer roared the red-balled plane--closer to..."

Characters
  • Captain Wings
Story 2 8 pages war

"After an evening's mess, our hero wastes some..."

Characters
  • Greasemonkey Griffin
Story 3 8 pages war

"Somewhere in England a lone Typhoon noses down..."

Characters
  • Suicide Smith
The Flying Catfish
Story 4 1 page non-fiction; aviation
Robot Death Over Manhattan (1)
Story 5 6 pages aviation; war

"C.O. paging us. I wonder what's up?"

Characters
  • Skull Squad
Story Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

Wings' Air Mail

Featuring Wings' Air Mail

Story 6 1 page
Story Notes

Letters from Jimmy Hale (San Antonio, Texas), Roger Hester (Mobile, Ala.), Jimmy Bailey (Skokie, Illinois), Howard Winters (Atlanta, Georgia), Betty Pfisterer (Essex, Maryland) and Bill Copeland (Seattle, Washington).

Story 7 5 pages war

"Many details lie buried in the electric shock..."

Characters
  • Jane Martin
Story Notes

HS and HW guess Atkinson and Isip, respectively, but I don't see either of them. This is too crude.

Peace With a Pencil
Story 8 2 pages war
Story 9 7 pages war

"Up the Tyrrhenian plows a Navy carrier...against..."

Characters
  • Clipper Kirk