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February 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
Airboy - Image via Wikipedia
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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 fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books. He was created by writers Charles Biro and Dick Wood and artist Al Camy.
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January 31, 2012 Leave a Comment
F-90 (Blackhawk comics) - Image via Wikipedia
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The F-90 was a fictional likeness of the Lockheed XF-90 that appeared in the Blackhawk comics during the 1950s and 1960s. In reality, only two XF-90 prototypes were built. The Blackhawk comics used two basic designs that are reminiscent on the F-90, dubbed “F-90B” and “F-90C” by fans of the comics.
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January 31, 2012 Leave a Comment
Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor Sunday strip by Hart Amos, 1973 - Image via Wikipedia
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Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor was an Australian comic strip created by John Dixon. The strip began publication on 30 May 1959, premiering in the Saturday issue of Perth’s Weekend Mail. It was subsequently published by other Australian Sunday newspapers, Sydney Sun Herald (14 June 1959), the The Sunday Mail (Brisbane) and the Sunday Mail (Adelaide). In May 1963, ‘Air Hawk’ also became a daily strip and unlike most US adventure strips, the Sunday and daily continuity on ‘Air Hawk’ were separate stories with Dixon writing them both. By 1967 the strip was appearing not only in every Australian state, but also in Britain, New Zealand, South Africa,[1] France and both North and South America.[2] Dixon continued the strip until 1986. Dixon was assisted over the years by Mike Tabrett, Hart Amos (March 1970 – June 1977)[1] and Keith Chatto (1977-onwards).[1]
In 1962 a series of Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors comics were published by Howitz Publications, the series however only ran for three issues.[1] This was followed by another series of comics by Page Publications,[1] reprinting episodes of the strip, with covers by Chatto. The Page series debuted in 1966, also only running for three issues, began with issue #20, but the title was altered to The Hawk and the Flying Doctors on the third issue. Although Dixon ceased the strip in 1986, the strip continued to be reprinted in the Sydney Morning Herald until the early 1990s.
The strip is set in the Australian outback, and follows the adventures of Jim Hawk, a former Royal Australian Air Force pilot flying and intelligent agent, who operates the Air Hawk Charter service from Alice Springs. The charter service worked in conjunction with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). Dr Hal Mathews was a close friend of Jim Hawk who worked for the RFDS and Sister Janet Grant belonged to the Australian Inland Mission, whose medical clinic adjoined the air strip. In the mid-seventies, Jim Hawk was granted a franchise to supply a special Emergency Relief Unit. The Unit’s function is to relieve any Flying Doctor base in need of assistance and to be available for special emergencies. Hal Mathews had been seconded to work with the Unit and Janet Grant was now his full time assistant, with the change in responsibilities, the ‘Doctors’ part of the title was reverted to the singular. Routine charter operations were continuously disrupted by Jim Hawk’s involvement in conflict with local and international villains.
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January 30, 2012 Leave a Comment
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After a run of 40 years, it was the longest running aviation comic strip. The strip was created by 27-year-old cartoonist and aviation enthusiast Zack Mosley, who had previously worked on the Buck Rogers and Skyroads strips. Mosley was a member of organizations that indicate his avid aviation research for his strip: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Aviation-Space Writers Association, National Cartoonists Society, B.P.O. Elks, Silver Wings Society, OX-5 Club, and the Quiet Birdmen Fraternity for many years. On September 18, 1976, he was inducted into the Civil Air Patrol Auxiliary-USAF Hall of Honor.
Smilin’ Jack was originally Mack Martin, in On the Wing, but Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill Patterson did not like the original title, so on December 31, 1933, the name was changed to Jack Martin, and the strip was retitled The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack after its creator, who had been nicknamed “Smilin’ Zack” by his colleagues. In later years it was simply known as Smilin’ Jack. Zack Mosley’s assistant during the 1940s was Boody Rogers. Smilin’ Jack’s appearance was based on that of notable air racing star Roscoe Turner
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January 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
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The Batplane, later known as the Batwing, is the fictional aircraft for the comic book superhero Batman. The vehicle was introduced in “Batman Versus The Vampire, I”, published in Detective Comics #31 in 1939, a story which saw Batman travel to continental Europe. [1] In this issue it was referred to as the Batgyro, and according to Les Daniels was “apparently inspired by Igor Sikorsky‘s first successful helicopter flight” of the same year. Initially based upon a either an autogyro or helicopter, with a rotor, the Batgyro featured a bat motif at the front. The writers gave the Batgyro the ability to be “parked” in the air by Batman, hovering in such a way as to maintain its position and allow Batman to return.
The Batgyro was soon replaced by the Batplane, which debuted in Batman #1, and initially featured a machine gun.[4] The vehicle was now based on a fixed wing airplane rather than a helicopter, with a propeller at the front, although a bat motif was still attached to the nose-cone. The Batplane has undergone constant revision since its first appearance, and has even been depicted as having the capability to traverse underwater.[5] With the launch of the Tim Burton directed Batman film of 1989, the Batplane became known as the Batwing, a name which was carried over into the comics.
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January 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
George Evans cover, issue #1
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Aces High was a short lived comic book series published by EC Comics in 1955 as the fourth title in its New Direction line. The bi-monthly comic was published by Bill Gaines. It lasted a total of five issues before being cancelled, along with EC’s other New Direction comics.
Aces High was dedicated to tales of air combat and front line service of Allied airmen during World War I and World War II. Many of the stories were in an anti-war vein.
Contributors to Aces High include George Evans, Wally Wood, Jack Davis and Bernie Krigstein.
Aces High was reprinted as part of publisher Russ Cochran’s Complete EC Library in 1988. Between April and August 1999, Cochran (in association with Gemstone Publishing) reprinted all five individual issues. This complete run was later rebound, with covers included, in a single softcover EC Annual.
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January 28, 2012 Leave a Comment
Eddie Rickenbacker and Clayton Knight's Ace Drummond (April 28, 1935)
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Ace Drummond was an aviation comic strip scripted by Eddie Rickenbacker, the celebrated World War I aviator, and illustrated by Clayton Knight (1891–1969), well-known aviation author and artist, who was the father of illustrator Hilary Knight. In its five-year run, it followed aviator Ace Drummond on his adventures around the world.
Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the comic strip ran as a Sunday page from 1935 to 1940. According to Rickenbacker‘s autobiography, at its peak, the strip ran in 135 newspapers.
In 1936, the strip was adapted into a movie serial. Rickenbacker was a key factor in the promotion of this strip through the formation of Eddie Rickenbacker’s Junior Pilots Club, displaying the Ace Drummond characters on buttons distributed to listeners.
Between 1935 and 1940, Knight and Rickenbacker also did another King Features comic strip, The Hall of Fame of the Air, depicting airplanes and air battles in a fact-based series about famous and little-known aviators. This strip was adapted into a Big Little Book, Hall of Fame of the Air (Whitman Publishing, 1936)
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