Credits
Colorist(s):
? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres:
war
Character(s):
Clay Hill (professional soldier, death); "Bullet" Hunter (death); General Bovar (Revolution leader, death); Bovar's pilots (all die); San Sonorez (villain)
First Line:
Revolutions are as common as rainstorms in the tiny states of Central America!
Synopsis:
Hill and Hunter meet up once again in the Canal Zone, and Hill discovers that his friend Hunter has accepted an offer from General Bovar to fly and fight for him in the on-going revolution. Unfortunately, Hunter soon discovers that his aerial opponent is none other than Clay Hill.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
6
Notes:
Letters credits originally given either Jim Wroten or Ben Oda individually. Todd Klein confirmed it was both Wroten and Wood (October 11, 2022) and agreed on by Craig Delich. Todd said:
“I can explain exactly what happened with the lettering on this story. It’s a case of artist Wally Wood fighting the mechanical look of the Leroy lettering by Jim and Margaret Wroten by adding some of his own lettering. The Wrotens did most of the lettering with Leroy templates, as described in this article:
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/leroy-lettering-by-jim-and-margaret-wroten/
“Ben Oda never used that method, he always did everything by hand. Al Feldstein loved the Wroten lettering, and had most of his stories lettered by them on the art before anything was drawn. Harvey Kurtzman hated Leroy lettering, as did Wood, and they fought it when they had the chance, often using Ben Oda instead, or at times Wood did his own lettering, he was good at that too.
“This story is a case where Wood had to work with the existing Wroten Leroy lettering, but the Wrotens were probably told to leave room for him to do his own large initial capitals and story title. This made the lettering look somewhat better, but Wood wasn’t satisfied with that, in some places he went over the emphasized words in places with a small pen point to make them more angular and with pointed corners. The result is closer to his own lettering, and even somewhat like the Ben Oda sound effects in the panels above, which may have added to the idea that Oda worked on this.”
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Hong Kong Intrigue!,” above).
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