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Wings Comics, one of several Fiction House comic magazines, began its monthly publication in 1940 and continued until 1954. This aviation comic book contained about five to ten separate regular features, many about air warfare.

In the first story of this August 1946 issue, the Americans have captured and imprisoned the evil Colonel Kamikaze at an unnamed airfield, and Captain Wings plans to transport him to Tokyo for trial. However, Japanese planes bomb and strafe the airfield, and a female suicide pilot crashes into the building where the Colonel is being held in order to break him out of his cell.

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Fiction House

Fiction House is an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. Its comics division was best known for its pinup-style good girl art, as epitomized by the company's most popular character, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

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On the inside front cover of Air Fighters Classics, Volume 1 the editor has this to say: “This is a facsimile edition of Air Fighters Comics vol. 1, no. 2, originally published by Hillman Periodicals in November 1942 … We re-present these original stories with the understanding that in 1942 America was at war with Japan and the image of the buck-toothed, orange-skinned Japanese was common. We know now – and we also knew then – that such racial stereotypes are not accurate. We present this volume as both a piece of history and as an example of one of the most-loved comic books of the 1940s.”

Air Fighters Classics #2 was the first appearance of Airboy, a pulp hero who’s been revisited a few times over the years. In fact, Moonstone recently announced an all-new Airboy series. Because it was a pulp comic, Air Fighters Comics wasn’t designed to convey emotions in the same way that Gung Ho! did. Both portray the Japanese in horrible, caricaturized ways, but Gung Ho! was meant (I’m supposing) as a cathartic experience for movie-goers. Air Fighters Comics was after a different reaction.

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Airboy is a fictional aviator hero of an American comic book series initially published by Hillman Periodicals during the World War II-era time period that fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books. He was created by writer Charles Biro with scripter Dick Wood and artist Al Camy.

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Air Ace (20 issues, 1944-48) Street and Smith

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One of the first prototype war comics was Bill Barnes, Air Ace which ran 12 issues from 1940 to Oct. 1943. This one escaped rationing problems, but the title became Air Ace with Vol. 2 #1 in 1944 and ran 20 issues, through Vo1. 3 #8 (March 1947). Collectors of air-oriented comics can find a lot to enjoy in this title, especially since it's one of the least expensive in the Street & Smith group. Again, you'd best check out the contents thoroughly.

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Spanning 1864 to 1971, the Street & Smith Editorial Records document the history of the New York City publisher of pulp fiction and general interest publications. Among its pulp fiction periodicals, Street & Smith published adventure and sea stories (Air Trails, Do and Dare Weekly, Red Raven Library, Sea Stories Magazine, Tiptop Weekly); detective and mystery stories (Clues, Doc Savage, Mystery Story Magazine, Nick Carter Weekly, Old Broadbrim Weekly, The Shadow); romances (Love Story Magazine, Romance Range); science fiction (Astounding Stories, Unknown); sports stories (All-Sports Library, Athlete); westerns (Buffalo Bill Stories, True Western Stories, Pete Rice Magazine, Western Story Magazine, Wild West Weekly); and young adult fiction (The Boys of the World, Bowery Boy Weekly, Live Girl Stories, My Queen). Many of the authors from Street & Smith's periodicals found their way onto the pages of the publisher's dime novels, which were issued in various series, including the Arrow, Bertha Clay, Eagle, Magnet, Medal, and Merriwell libraries. But perhaps the most successful of the dime novels were those issued in the Alger Series, the volumes of which promoted the comforting notion that virtue is invariably rewarded by wealth. (These rags-to- riches tales became so imbedded in American popular culture that reference to a "Horatio Alger story" became synonymous with the realization of the American dream.) Street & Smith comic adventurers included the Bill Barnes, Buffalo Bill, Doc Savage, the Red Dragon, and artist R.F. Outcault's Yellow Kid, whose first appearance in the New York World in 1895 marked the birth of American comics. Although Street & Smith specialized in pulp fiction periodicals and dime novels, it also published non- fiction periodicals for hobbyists (Air Progress, Air Trails Pictorial, American Modeler, Science World); movie-goers (Picture-Play Weekly); sports enthusiasts (Pic, Sport Pictorial, Street & Smith's Baseball, Basketball and Football Yearbooks); and women (Mademoiselle, You). Reflecting the wide assortment of these publications, the Street & Smith Editorial Records have been divided into two parts: Editorial Files by Title, which relate to periodical or established uniform titles [a collective title used to encompass publications from several different works, i.e. Nick Carter titles from Nick Carter Library, Magnet Library, Nick Carter radio series], and Miscellaneous Editorial Files, mostly arranged by format, which refer to books-in-series publications and/or records which are associated with more than one periodical title.

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Jon Small was an artist from the UK, who lived and worked in the USA from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. In Britain, he had already done art on 'Lone Ranger' comics during the early 1930s. After doing some magazine art, he worked for a number of US comic book publishers. He was the original artist of 'Bulletman', a character among the first wave of comic book superheroes. Published by Fawcett Publications and written by Bill Parker, the feature made its debut in the first issue of Nickel Comics of May 1940. Afterwards, it appeared in Master Comics and was eventually continued by Jack Binder and his team.

Small also worked on features like 'Bill Barnes, America's Air Ace' and 'Kidnapped' for Street & Smith Comics, 'Great Voodini' for Feature Comics, 'Green Hornet' for Hillman, 'Air Rover' for Spark Publications, stories for True Comics by Parent's Magazine Press. He did a lot of work for National/DC, including 'Star Spangled Kid', 'Superman', 'Crimson Avenger' and adventure titles. During the 1950s, he worked on Dell titles like 'The Chief', 'Tonto' and 'Young Hawk'.

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I.W. Publications

I.W. Publications was a short lived comic book publisher in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The company was part of I.W. Enterprises, and named for the company's owner, Israel Waldman. The later half of the company's existence, it published comics under the "Super Comics" name. Waldman would later be involved with the short-lived Skywald Publications in the 1970s.

I.W. Publications were notible for publishing unauthorized reprints of other company's properties, especially Quality Comics. Many of their titles had a Quality logo. Usually these companies where out of business, but not always. The company started publishing in 1958, and stopped in 1963/64.

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Enemy Ace first appeared in Our Army at War # 151, (February 1965) It was a backup story that quickly gained popularity. As a World War I pilot flying for the Germans, his stories told the German side of the war, in which Hans von Hammer was a man of honor and chivalry, a flying knight in his Fokker Dr.I, but he was haunted by his duties and the constant death surrounding them.^[1]

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A more recent work is Garth Ennis's Enemy Ace: War in Heaven (2001), with art by Chris Weston and Russ Heath. Here von Hammer's character and story arc is based on several real-life German pilots', notably Adolf Galland. The series recounts the pilot's activities during World War II where he is persuaded to once again fight as a pilot of the Luftwaffe. Von Hammer is placed in charge of his own gruppe and initially serves on the Eastern Front. Though no friend to the Nazi regime, he rapidly amasses numerous kills flying a red-painted Me-109 against the Russians, and later in defense of Germany (flying a scarlet Me-262) against American bombers. Nevertheless, von Hammer becomes increasingly disillusioned as he continues to witness the horrors of war. In 1945, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, he inadvertently parachutes into the Dachau concentration camp and is outraged to discover the German perpetration of the Holocaust. He proposes a mutiny upon returning to his airbase and later surrenders his Jagdverband to advancing Allied troops, namely Sgt. Rock's company, after setting fire to the fighter unit's remaining aircraft.^[1]

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War in Heaven was a two-issue mini-series published in 2001. The series picks up in 1942, and Von Hammer, 46 years old and living on the Bavarian family estate, has long since retired from the work that earned him the moniker The Hammer of Hell . Russia is fighting Germany and Adolf Hitler. An old friend convinces Von Hammer to become a pilot again in order to train Germany's new fighter aces. The Enemy Ace, however, learns all to soon what he already suspected, the Germany for which he now fights is not the Germany of his youth.

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BATTLEFIELDS: THE NIGHT WITCHES #1 COMIC BOOK

OUT OF PRINT. HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEM FEATURING A FEMALE SOVIET BOMBER SQUADRON DURING WORLD WAR 2.

Based on the real WW2 Soviet female combat pilots! The Night Witches (Nachthexen in German, Ночные ведьмы in Russian) was the nickname the Germans gave to the World War II Soviet Air Forces Night Bomber Regiment, a women-only combat regiment

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