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Wings Comics #81

May 1947 · Fiction House · 0.10 USD

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Wings Comics #81 is an anthology featuring multiple aviation-themed stories. The main feature, "Captain Wings' Sky Trail of the Terang Tang," involves Captain Wings and crew members encountering a whaler at sea and discovering a stranded woman, leading to a rescue mission. The issue also includes "Air Heroes," a prose feature about a World War II fighter pilot named George Beurling who survives a crash landing in Gibraltar after being shot down, receives a Distinguished Service Order, and later reflects that he is fundamentally a fighter pilot unsuited to peacetime life. Additional stories featuring Ghost Squadron and Jane Martin are advertised but not fully detailed in the visible pages.

Contains 6 stories

Sky Trail of the Terror Tong!

10 pp · Adventure, Aviation, War

Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]

Captain WingsLt. Ross (introduction)VILLAINS: Kung (introduction, dies)Nicee (introduction, dies)Lt. Ross imposter (introduction, dies)Captain Wings (imposter, introduction, dies)

Untitled Spy story

6 pp · Spy

Jane MartinCaptain Stoneheart (intro)VILLAINS: Phil (intro)Joe (intro)their partner (intro)

Untitled Humor story

6 pp · Humor

Script ? [as Kip Beales]

Greasemonkey GriffithVILLAIN: Sky Lark (intro)

Untitled Crime story

6 pp · Crime

The Phantom FalconMayor Jones (intro)Ellen Jones (intro)VILLAINS: Trigger Benson (introdies)Lefty (introdies)Baldy (introdies)

Untitled Adventure story

6 pp · Adventure

Script ? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers]

Suicide SmithVILLAINS: El Gato (intro)Carlos (intro)

Untitled Fantasy story

8 pp · Fantasy, War

Script ? [as Capt. Derek West]

Ghost SquadronJeff Parker (intro)Mary (introdiesghost)Bill (intro)VILLAINS: The Japanese

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Good) $29

CGC 9.8 · 1 in census $2,366*

CGC 9.6 · 2 in census $1,351

CGC 9.4 · 2 in census $814

CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $530

CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $415

CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $294

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CGC 8.0 · 4 in census $226

CGC 7.5 · 2 in census $176

CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $151*

CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $125

CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $109*

CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $87

CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $87*

CGC 4.5 none in existence

CGC 4.0 · 3 in census $65*

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artist, inker Bob Lubbers

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