Free-Fall With Gale & The Girls

As noted last time, there was a shift in tone for Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron about two years into the run of Planet Comics. Issue #24 featured one of the last opening splash panels with Gale attacking. We saw that splash panel in the previous post, so here's the original inks for the page:

Planet Comics #26 had a neutral, location-setting panel, and then they switched to a woman-in-peril standard opener and cranked the cheesecake factor up a bit. Here's a couple tales from shortly after that point...

For a rare change, we know who drew this next episode - Fran Hopper -

pages from Planet Comics #s 27 & 30 (1943, 1944)