Age of Aces » Joe Archibald

“String ‘Em Back Alive” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:58:38 +0000

Major Garrity had an idea. It involved sending Phineas Pinkham back to training school in his stolen Fokker to teach rookies to fight. Phineas had an idea, too. It involved taking that stolen Fokker across the lines to teach the Mad Butcher not to fight. Lay your bets, gentlemen!

Download “String ‘Em Back Alive” February 1934, Flying Aces

“Smell-Shocked” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:59:51 +0000

That great German ace, the Mad Butcher from Hamburg, wants some Limburger and can’t find it. Phineas, the mad Pinkham from Boonetown, Iowa, has some Limburger and doesn’t know it. Oh, yes. Fate brings them together. The big cheese!

Download “Smell-Shocked” (January 1934, Flying Aces)

“The Frying Suit” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:14:48 +0000

Phineas Pinkham had given Major Rufus Garrity two cigars in a week—and they’d both been good! What was behind this sudden bout of good behavior? Something was very wrong at the drome of the Ninth Pursuit.

Download “The Frying Suit” (December 1933, Flying Aces)

“Bomb Voyage” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:17:05 +0000

That idea Phineas had for trapping half the German Air Force was good. G.H.Q. liked it. Even Major Rufus Garrity took to it. Oh, yes, there was a catch. Half the German Air Force had to fall for it, too.

Download “Bomb Voyage” (November 1933, Flying Aces)

“The Varnishing Americans” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:33:57 +0000

If you thought Elmer Hubbard and Pokey Cook were a couple of wild Indians before, just wait until you see them with their war paint and feathers on! Even C.O. Mulligan had to listen to their war whoops with a smile.

Download “The Varnishing Americans” (February 1934, Sky Birds)

“Channel Skimmers” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:38:36 +0000

This story features the wacky duo of Elmer Hubbard and Pokey Cook. See how they manage to get themselves into and out of hot water once again.

Download “Channel Skimmers” (January 1934, Sky Birds)

“Rumpler Stakes” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:14 +0000

Joe Archibald with a humorous Ambrose Hooley and Muley Spinks air novelet!
When this pair of wild aces get started, they ruin anybody’s old war!

Download “Rumpler Stakes” (June 1938, Lone Eagle)

“The Spider and the Flyer” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:23:53 +0000

Joe Archibald also did the illustrations for the humorous Phineas Pinkham stories that appeared in Flying Aces every month for 13 years.

Download “The Spider and the Flyer” (June 1938, Flying Aces)

“Duck Soup for Elmer” by Joe Archibald

Bill — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:31:38 +0000

Rittmeister von Gluck was making things so tough on the tarmac where Elmer of the Air Corps parked his Spad that G.H.Q. threatened to move the whole drome back. But there was a very special reason why Elmer didn’t want that to happen—a reason named Gwendolyn. Now don’t get us wrong—Gwendolyn was no lady!

Download “Duck Soup for Elmer” (August 1932, Sky Birds)