HILLMANÕS AIRBOY COMICS BEGAN PUBLICATION IN DECEMBER OF 1945, WITH VOLUME TWO
ISSUES ELEVEN, CONTINUING THE NUMBERING FROM THEIR AIR FIGHTERS TITLE. THE SERIES
WAS INITIALLY HELD ALOFT WITH SUCH EXCITING CHARACTERS AS AIR BOY, VALKYRIE, SKY
WOLF, THE IRON ACE, THE BALD EAGLE, THE FLYING DUTCHMAN AND THE HEAP.
TO KEEP THE ADVENTUROUS AVIATORS OF AIR BOY COMICS IN THE CLOUDS HILLMAN HIRED
SOME OF THE BEST ARTISIC MECHANICS WORKING AT THE TIME INCLUDING FRED KIDA, CHARLES
BIRO, BOB FUJITANI, HARRY SAHLE, AL JAFFEE, JOHN CASSONE, AL CAMY AND MORT LEAV.
HILLMAN HAD AN INTERSTING NUMBERING SYSTEM. AFTER THE TWELFTH ISSUE OF A TITLE WAS
PUBLISHED, THE FOLLOWING ISSUE WOULD BE GIVEN A NEW VOLUME NUMBER AND THE
ISSUEÕS NUMBERING WOULD REVERT BACK TO NUMBER ONE FOR THE NEXT YEAR. THIS BOOK
CONTAINS ISSUES #11 AND 12 FROM VOLUME TWO AND ISSUES 1, 2 AND 4 OF VOLUME THREE.
THERE WAS NO VOLUME 3 #3. AIR BOY COMICS STANDS THE TEST OF TIME BY HAVING THAT
RARE COMBINATION OF BOTH INTRIGUING HEROES AND HEROINES AS WELL AS AN AMAZING
ROSTER OF CREATIVE TALENT.