Dates
- Cover date
- 1944
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
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Stories
- Untitled · 6 pages
Jack takes a job with Beaverduck family and has to contend with Beaverduck's screwball daughter, Joy, who is a terrible pilot.
- Untitled · 8 pages
Jack continues to have problems with his rich, spoiled, scatter-brained girl boss, who keeps getting him into tough spots while he's flying her and her friends around.
- Untitled · 8 pages
Joy's father puts Jack in charge of her aviation activities. Joy tries a little romance on Jack, but he spurns her because he's still in love with Dixie. Since Dixie won't marry Jack until she regains her sight, Joy comes up with a plot to make Jack lose his pilot's license and keep him from raising money for Dixie's operation.
- Untitled · 7 pages
The small-time hoodlum that Joy hired to make Jack lose his license does his job and frames Jack for buzzing airliners and flying drunk. Joy tries to stay close to Jack by hiring him to drive the tow car for her glider.
- Untitled · 7 pages
After Jack spurns her advances, Joy decides to set a new altitude record for gliding. Despite Jack and Downwind's warnings, she dives into a thunderhead and her glider is torn apart. She parachutes down, but lands hard and is injured. Jack has to fly her to the hospital, despite not having a pilot's license. Joy needs a blood transfusion and the only one with her blood type is Dixie Lee.
- Untitled · 8 pages
While the blood transfusion is being set up, Joy, raving in delirium, tells everyone how she set up Jack to lose his license to keep Dixie from getting her sight back. After the transfusion, Joy is ashamed of her actions and decides to pay for Dixie's operation, but secretly. Dixie goes by ship to Europe for the operation. Jack gets his pilot's license back and he and Downwind get a job Down South as cotton crop-dusters.
- Untitled · 7 pages
Jack and Downwind have been threatened by a rival crop-dusting outfit owned by Gumbo Grabber, who happens to be Joy Beaverduck's uncle. (Joy is recuperating from her accident at his plantation.) Two men have disappeared and Jack does some investigating. He gets caught by Grabber, who plans to get rid of him in a cotton baler. Joy comes along while Grabber and Jack are fighting and accidentally beans Jack with a crowbar. Grabber comes after Joy, but she nails him with the crowbar and he falls into the baler and is crushed.