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The four pages of fiche have been rescanned and much improved by srca1941.
We still hold out hope of proper paper scans being made someday down the road
See the fiche comparison thumbnail image.
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Air Fighters Comics v1 01 (c2c - 64 paper; 4fiche)
Scanned from a coverless copy also missing the last page, so:
fc+bc from HAG; ifc, ibc & pages 63-4 from tigger's old fiche.
The rest: a freddyfly original!
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This comic is really a one-shot, not the first of a series. All the familiar strips of the AirFighters/Airboy series began in issue #2, published a year after this one, and none of the strips in this comic appeared in issue 2.
Maybe the entry of the USA in WWII just after #1 appeared made the publishers re-think the contents, or maybe it was just poor sales, or both.

  

23-October-2013 9:56 am
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Username: d6danny
Comment: I really enjoyed the Black Commander character and wished he had made it into more comics. I was thrilled to learn that he had been adapted into the Worlds of Pulp Role Playing Game by Scaldcrow Games. It was a good story and deserved to be longer lasting.
24-January-2014 3:45 am
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Username: churnworks
Comment: This issue is interesting because it is the first time in a GA comic that I've seen the writer and artist both credited in nearly every story, and the earliest story I've seen by Bob Oksner (as both Robert Oksner in the first-page credits, and signed as Bob Oksner in the splash). His first published story was in Marvel Mystery Comics No. 10, cover-dated August 1940, 15 months before this issue. The Oksner style is already evident here in "'MACH' Duff, Junior Mechanic."
 
 

Issue: #1
Published: November 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Alex Hillman
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number 509167.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page)
Featuring: Black Commander
Credits: Pencils: Harry Anderson [as Anderson] (signed) | Inks: Harry Anderson [as Anderson] (signed)
Genre: Aviation War
Characters: Black Commander [Barry Haynes]
Table Of Contents (1 page) Contact!
Credits: Script: Alex Hillman ? [as The Editor] | Letters: typeset
Comic Story (12 pages)
Featuring: Black Commander
Credits: Script: Kermit Jaediker | Pencils: Harry Anderson | Inks: Harry Anderson
Genre: Aviation War
Characters: Black Commander [Barry Haynes, Ronald Joyce] (first And Only Appearance) Maybelle Colonel Northrup Dr. Nort Aunt Martha Unnamed British Military Members Unnamed German Military Members
Comic Story (8 pages) Death At 20,000
Featuring: Test Pilot
Credits: Script: Kermit Jaediker | Pencils: Edd Ashe [as Edmund Ashe, Jr.] | Inks: Edd Ashe [as Edmund Ashe, Jr.]
Genre: Aviation War
Characters: Tex Trainor (first And Only Appearance) McBride Gordon (villain) Helen McBride Doc
Comic Story (7 pages) Up In Smoke
Featuring: Crash Davis
Credits: Script: Malcolm Kildale | Pencils: Malcolm Kildale | Inks: Malcolm Kildale
Genre: Aviation War
Characters: Crash Davis (first And Only Apeparance) German Navy Commander Unnamed German Military Members Unnamed American Commander
Illustration (1 page) War Planes Past & Present
Featuring: War Planes
Genre: Non-fiction Aviation War
Comic Story (3 pages)
Featuring: Pecos Pete
Credits: Script: Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren] | Pencils: Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren] | Inks: Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren]
Genre: Humor Aviation Western-frontier
Characters: Pecos Pete (first And Only Appearance) Hoss (Pete's Horse) Airplane Pilot Unnamed Mexican Criminals Unnamed American Military Officer Unnamed American Military Guards
Comic Story (6 pages) America's Air Army
Credits: Script: Nathaniel Nitkin | Pencils: Al Bare | Inks: Al Bare | Letters: ?; typeset
Genre: Non-fiction Aviation
Characters: Lieutenant Bob White Sergeant Tim Casey Private Joe Smith Unnamed American Military Members Unnamed German Military Members Adolf Hitler Winston Churchill Cordell Hull Hermann Göring Walther Von Brauchitsch [as Von Brauchitch]
Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring: Flying Cadet Jack Dale
Credits: Script: Paul Quinn | Pencils: Larry Antonette | Inks: Larry Antonette
Genre: Aviation
Characters: Jack Dale (first And Only Appearance) Pogo Wilson Unnamed Cadets Preston
Comic Story (6 pages) Stings For the Saboteurs
Featuring: The Mosquito
Credits: Script: Harry Francis Campbell | Pencils: Harry Francis Campbell | Inks: Harry Francis Campbell
Genre: Aviation War
Characters: The Mosquito [Lieutenant Steve Stanton] (first And Only Appearance) General Nelson [Chief Of G-2] Mr. Mason Mr. Mason's Secretary Allen Frederich And His Fellow Saboteurs Unnamed Members Of The G-2 Office
Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring: Air Aces
Synopsis: Feature on U.S. pilot Lieutenant Frank Luke.
Genre: Non-fiction Aviation War
Comic Story (6 pages) Double Trouble
Featuring: "Mach" Duff Junior Mechanic
Credits: Script: Gilbert James | Pencils: Bob Oksner (signed, but also credited as Robert Oksner) | Inks: Bob Oksner (signed, but also credited as Robert Oksner)
Genre: Aviation War
Characters: "Mach" Duff (first And Only Appearance) Unnamed Mechanics Power Dive Grant Old Designer Old Designer's Daughter Foreign Agent Kidnappers
Text Article (0 pages) The Simple Glider
Featuring: "Mach" Duff's Model-Method Introduction to Aviation!
Comic Story (8 pages) Gliding Death
Featuring: Black Sheep Squadron
Credits: Script: George Kale | Pencils: Ed Winiarski [as Win] | Inks: Ed Winiarski [as Win]
Genre: Aviation War
Characters: Black Sheep Squadron [Captain Logan Black Gunner Wilson Other Unnamed Members] (first And Only Appearance) Major Bevin Unnamed German Soldiers
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Credits: Script: ? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset
Advertisement (1 page) Boys! Girls! Get this Magic Multiplier Free!
Credits: Script: ? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset
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