Cover: Art Saaf

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Wings Comics #47

Jul 1944 · Fiction House · 0.10 USD

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In the lead story "Stand by for Vengeance," American Sky Busters launch a bombing raid on Tojo's tin mines in Gibraltar. When their plane is hit and damaged during the mission, pilot Labal must fight to keep the aircraft airborne while navigator Lt. Erwin helps manage the emergency. After an intense struggle involving a dead co-pilot and Japanese fighter interference, Labal makes a desperate emergency landing, and the crew narrowly escapes before two Japanese Zeroes attack, but American luck allows them to scatter safely.

Contains 7 stories

Untitled War story

10 pp · War

Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]

V: The Samurai-San (Japanese female pilotsIsome D)I: Ling Toy, her father (D)

Untitled War story

8 pp · War

V: A Nazi spy (I), Herman Goering, Josef Goebbels, the Nazis

Untitled War story

6 pp · War

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

I: Lady Thornton, Maj. Henry Thornton, ElisaV: The Nazis

Untitled War story

6 pp · War

V: Herman Gordon (I), Herman Goering, Nazis

Untitled War story

5 pp · War

V: Inge Thorgen (I, D), Kommandant Schwein (I), NazisI: Nils Lardner

Technical Sergeant Doug Labat

2 pp · Aviation, Biography, War

Technical Sergeant Doug Labat, the flight engineer aboard the Liberator bomber "Old 26," proves his mettle during a harrowing mission over Jap-held Burma when sixteen Zeroes attack the plane on November 11th. As cannon fire tears through the aircraft, the pilot and co-pilot are wounded, forcing Labat to take the controls and hold the damaged bomber steady while continuing to fight off enemy fighters. His quick thinking and steady hand keep the crew alive long enough to nurse the crippled plane toward an emergency landing.

Untitled War story

7 pp · War

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Good) $43

CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $1,591

CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $1,021*

CGC 9.0 none in existence

CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $495*

CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $388*

CGC 7.5 none in existence

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CGC 7.0 none in existence

CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $119*

CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $103*

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Full credits

artist, inker Bob Lubbers

cover pencils, inks Art Saaf

Reprints

↩ Reprints Wings Comics #22 (1942)

Reprinted in Rangers Comics #64 (1952)

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