Star Spangled War Stories

"Hell's Angels - The Maverick Ace"

Cover Date October 1974
Issue #182
Pages 7
Type Original Story
Cover Price 25¢
Featured Character Hans von Hammer
Guest Characters Steve Savage ('the Balloon Buster')

Synopsis

The rivalry with Steve Savage intensifies as the Balloon Buster's tactics become impossible to ignore or dismiss. Von Hammer recognizes in Savage the dangerous quality he most distrusts: improvisation. Where von Hammer operates from a code, Savage operates from instinct, and instinct is harder to predict, harder to counter, and harder to hate.

Collector Notes

The middle chapter of the Hell's Angels trilogy continues to develop the contrast between the two aces. Kanigher was a long-tenured architect of the Balloon Buster character as well, which gives the crossover an internal coherence, both men were built to the same moral specifications from opposite directions.

Creative Team

Writer Robert Kanigher
Penciler Frank Thorne
Inker Frank Thorne
Letterer Ben Oda