EXTRACTS: AIR WAR STORIES Fleetway Picture Library Classics © 2019 Book Palace Books (272 PAGES in Full edition)

FLEETWAY PICTURE LIBRARY ™ CLA SS IC S 2 Fleetway Picture Library Classics No. 3: Air War Stories Published by Book Palace Books, The Book Palace, Jubilee House Bedwardine Road, Crystal Palace, London SE19 3AP Tel: 020 8768 0022 email: info@bookpalace.com web: www.bookpalace.com Published by Geoff West Design and production by Stuart Williams Printed in China by Prolong Press Limited Introduction is © Diego Cordoba 2019 Cover painting by Nino Caroselli ISBN 978–1–907081–89–7 Contents originally serialised in War Picture Library issue 49 and Air Ace Picture Library issues 11, 37 and 54. Copyright © 1960 and 1961 Rebellion Publishing IP Ltd. All Rights Reserved. All characters, their distinctive likenesses and related elements featured in this publication are trademarks of Rebellion Publishing IP Ltd, all rights reserved. The stories, characters and incidents featured in this publication are entirely fictional. This edition is published by arrangement with Rebellion. www.TreasuryofBritishComics.com The following are trademarks of Rebellion and Treasury of British Comics as well as the titles and likeness of all characters featured. The Lone Rider Picture Library , Cowboy Picture Library , War Picture Library , Air Ace Picture Library , Thriller Picture Library , Fleetway Picture Library , Larrigan, Jet-Ace Logan, Rebellion and Treasury of British Comics names and logos. Contents Introduction by Diego Cordoba 3 Broken Wings ( War Picture Library #49) 5 Scramble! ( Air Ace Picture Library #11) 71 Last of the Gladiators ( Air Ace Picture Library #37) 137 Target Tirpitz ( Air Ace Picture Library #54) 203 Ferdinando Tacconi: British Comics selected bibliography 269 All art by Ferdinando Tacconi While the quality of the stories and artwork for the Fleetway Picture Library comics is first class, the same cannot be said, in some instances, for the printing. As the original artwork is not available, this series of books uses scans of the printed versions and while every effort has been made to reproduce them as cleanly and clearly as possible, there will be, inevitably, fluctuations of quality.