Number 2214: Up in the air, man

Despite how many comics with many characters I have read in my time, I have still missed a lot of them. That includes Air Man. created by the team of George Kapitan and Harry Sahle. Like Hawkman, Air Man has wings and can fly, but with the help of helium. Like other non-super heroes with gimmicks, he can land a punch, too, which is handy when taking on a whole gang of killers, as he does here.

Air Man was short-lived, appearing in only two issues of Centaur’s Keen Detective Funnies and two of Detective Eye. Centaur was also short-lived, being the first comic book company to go out of business. Sadly enough, Harry Sahle was short-lived. He went on during the 1940s to do a lot of features, including what was a knack for teenage humor. He drew Candy for Quality Comics, and even Archie for MLJ/Archie Comics, then died in 1954 at age 41. Sahle was a journeyman comic book guy, drawing all sorts of comics, including superheroes for MLJ after Centaur went bust.

This episode of Air Man appeared in Detective Eye #1 (1940).

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