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War Stories #5

Dell · 1942 · on sale 1942-04-16

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Series
War Stories (Dell, 1942 series)
Issue
#5
Publication date
1942
Key date
1942-04-16
On-sale date
1942-04-16
Indicia publisher
Dell Publishing Company Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1
1Sky Silhouettes of Axis Warplanesillustration1letters: typeset
2Night Devils over Germanycomic story10pencils: E. C. Stoner; inks: E. C. StonerNight Devils [Lt. Dan Cork (first appearance); Lt. Tom Harrow (first appearance); Agent 4-73 (first appearance)]; Nazis (villains)
3Uncle Sam Clothes the Armytext article1pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim Chambers
4Our Modern Streamlined United States Armytext article2pencils: E. C. Stoner; inks: E. C. Stoner
5-comic story8pencils: Bob Jenney; inks: Bob JenneyScoop Mason; Sleepy Samson; Judy Jackson; Captain Gruber [as Commander Marshal] (villain)
6U.S. Navy Convoystext article2pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey
7Army Officers' Uniformstext article1
8-comic story8script: Robert Turner; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyThe Sky Hawk [Storm Allen]; Lucky Lane; Buzz Magee; Japanese (villains)
9The Whistler Strikescomic story12pencils: Jack Keller; inks: Jack KellerThe Whistler (Introduction; Origin; Only appearance); Louie; Dr. Duval (death); Eric (villain); Karl Hettinger (villain); Inspector Ernest G. Marks (death, villain); Lt. Moltke (death, villain); Nazis (villains)
10The Jinxescomic story6script: David Berg; pencils: David Berg; inks: David BergThe Jinxes [Chop (first appearance); Suey (first appearance); Chow (first appearance); Mein (first appearance)]
11Undersea Raidertext story3pencils: Hal Bittner; inks: Hal BittnerJeff Worth; Stanley Worth; Nazis (villains)
12Behind the Man behind the Gun!text article2pencils: E. C. Stoner; inks: E. C. Stoner
13The Aerial Torpedotext article1
14Taps for the Japscomic story8pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim ChambersLarry Palmer; Sogo Lee; Colonel Taylor; Sako (villain); Japanese (villains)
15Fighting Planes of U.S. Army and Navyillustration1
16-illustration1pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey

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