Bruce Gentry was an aviation adventure comic strip by Ray Bailey [fr], distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate.

[2] Comic strip historian Coulton Waugh called Bailey's Bruce Gentry a "job of very high technical skill."

There, he found enough subversive and/or criminal activity to keep readers of the strip coming back, and enough gorgeous women to motivate a dozen heroes.

But a single continent can't contain a good flying hero, so his adventures branched out all over the world—even, long before it became prominent in the news, to Vietnam.

"[4] Bailey's strip was adapted into the 1949 movie serial Bruce Gentry – Daredevil of the Skies with Tom Neal in the title role.