Somewhere between the Challengers Of The Unknown and the Blackhawks existed the Ghost Patrol.
So, who were these guys?
Originally written by Ted Udall and Emmanuel Demby with art by Frank Harry, (good luck figuring that out from the page credit below), the Ghost Patrol debuted with their origin in 1942 in the pages of Flash Comics...
Things sure worked out better for them than for these guys...
Like the Blackhawks, the Ghost Patrol continued well past the end of World War II - until 1949 - appearing in most issues of Flash Comics between #s 29-104. And, like those other guys, they sometimes had trouble finding direction without the war that spawned them. Things evolved and changed, with John Wentworth now scripting...
...things always change...
...except War. War Never Changes.
There was a Ghost Patrol that appeared in Our Army At War in 1963, but that was some other guys. They were Infantry.
Fred, Slim and Pedro seem to have moved on from this realm.
So, who were these guys?
Originally written by Ted Udall and Emmanuel Demby with art by Frank Harry, (good luck figuring that out from the page credit below), the Ghost Patrol debuted with their origin in 1942 in the pages of Flash Comics...
Things sure worked out better for them than for these guys...
Like the Blackhawks, the Ghost Patrol continued well past the end of World War II - until 1949 - appearing in most issues of Flash Comics between #s 29-104. And, like those other guys, they sometimes had trouble finding direction without the war that spawned them. Things evolved and changed, with John Wentworth now scripting...
...things always change...
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...except War. War Never Changes.
There was a Ghost Patrol that appeared in Our Army At War in 1963, but that was some other guys. They were Infantry.
Fred, Slim and Pedro seem to have moved on from this realm.
page art by Frank Harry from Flash Comics #s 29, 38, & 70, panel art by kiff57krocker (1942, 1943, 1946, 2019)
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There was a strip called The Ghost Patrol in a comic called Smash! back in 1966. It was a reprint of a strip called Phantom Patrol, which had appeared in Swift in 1962. Swift, of course, was a companion paper to the famous Eagle.
ReplyDeleteThere was also a Ghost Squadron that appeared in Wings Comics from 1946-49. Not to be confused with the UK Ghost Squadron from Streamline a year later.
DeleteWe haven't been to visit Wings in a bit, so we might take a gander at them.