pulp hero Brian "Coffin" Kirk and Tank

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I just uploaded two character files (pdf and hdc) for Brian "Coffin" Kirk and his ever-present sidekick, Tank. Arch Whitehouse wrote these aviation pulp characters for Flying Aces magazine. Seven stories were eventually published, which you can read on the Age of Aces website:

1. "Vulture's Vortex" from Flying Aces, v27 #3, October 1937
2. "Skyguns of Singapore" from Flying Aces v29 #3, June 1938
3. "Scourge of the Steel Eagles" from Flying Aces v30 #3, October 1938
4. "Clue of the Breda Brood" from Flying Aces v32 #1, April 1939
5. “Hawks From the Smoke” from Flying Aces  v33 #1, August 1939
6. "Balloons For a Breda" from Flying Aces v36 #1, August 1940
7. “Fate Flies the Breda” from Flying Aces  v38 #3, June 1941

 

I haven't done up any of "Coffin" Kirk's planes, because he usually crashes them. In five out of seven stories, he crashes the plane he got last adventure at the beginning and steals a different one from the bad guys by the end. I will admit, I didn't think I'd enjoy the stories, but I wanted to see what the aviation pulps were about; I usually prefer weird pulp heroes with quirks. Well, this guy's got them in spades! Two pages into the first story and I knew I was going to have to read the rest of them! It's not much of an investment anyway, they're pretty short and there's only a few of them!