Fightin' Air Force
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| Fightin' Air Force | |
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 Cover of Fightin' Air Force #3 (Feb. 1956). | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Charlton Comics |
| Schedule | Bi-monthly |
| Format | Anthology |
| Publication date | Feb. 1956 – Feb./Mar. 1966 |
| No. of issues | 51 |
Fightin' Air Force is a bimonthly war comic that was published by Charlton Comics from 1956 to 1966. Telling fictional stories of American military pilots, it was a sister title of the other Charlton war comics Fightin' Army, Fightin' Marines, and Fightin' Navy.
Regular contributors to Fightin' Air Force included Dick Giordano (who illustrated many early covers), Sam Glanzman, Jack Keller, Rocke Mastroserio, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas, Jack Abel, and inker Vince Alascia. Editor Pat Masulli helmed the book for most of its run.
As with many comic book titles published at the time, Fightin' Air Force did not start with issue number one; it was a renaming of a Charlton war comic called Never Again, which published two issues starting in August 1955.
The first issue of Fightin' Air Force was #3, published in February 1956. Early issues sported the tagline "Jet Aces in Action". Issue #12 (Oct. 1958) was a 100-page special. Fightin' Air Force ceased publication with issue #53, dated Feb./Mar. 1966. Altogether, the title published 51 issues.
Beginning in June 1966, Charlton created a new war title, War and Attack, which took over the numbering of Fightin' Air Force. War and Attack mostly featured infantry stories based during World War II; it published ten issues before it was cancelled with issue #63 (Dec. 1967).