Fiction House started out as a pulp magazine publisher, with one of their more popular titles being Wings (which ultimately ran 133 issues [11+ volumes], from January 1928 to Spring 1953).

[1] With the end of the war, Wings Comics returned its focus to historical stories, "real-life heroes of aviation,"[1] and text pieces on model aircraft.

During the 1940s, John Celardo was an assistant art director and a major contributor to the Fiction House line, notably for Wings Comics.

Long-time Superman inker Murphy Anderson's first confirmed credit is the two-and-two-thirds-page nonfiction aviation featurette "Jet Propulsion" in Wings Comics #48 (cover-dated Aug. 1944), and his first fiction feature was an eight-page "Suicide Smith" story in issue #50 (Oct.

"[7] "Jet Propulsion" — featurette "Parachute Patrol" — ran issues #1–23; artists included Henry C. Kiefer "Suicide Smith and the Air Commanders" — title's other most enduring feature; contributors included Ruth Atkinson, Alvin Hollingsworth, Murphy Anderson, and Jack Keller.

"Wing Tips" — nonfiction airplane profile featurette produced by, among others, Ruth Atkinson and Gene Colan "Yank Aces of World War II" — biographical feature; contributors included Fran Hopper[10]