Golden Age Appearances of Air Wave (1940-1955)

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Cover

Appearance?

Comment

Reprinted In

Detective #60

No

"The Case of the Missing Evidence" - 1st Appearance, captures Snakes Scarlotti


Detective #61

No

(no title) - I: Professor Gurn, vs. Professor Gurn


Detective #62

No

(no title) - vs. Mr. Mystery (A crooked mayor in disguise)


Detective #63

No

"The Case of Station X" - rounds up Von Krugg and gang at a phony radio station serving as the criminals' HQ


Detective #64

No

"The Mystery of his Master's Voice" - vs. crooks operating out of a pet shop, I: Static, the parrot who becomes Air Wave's sidekick


Detective #65

No

"The Machine Man" - vs. Professor Gurn, now in an exoskeleton


Detective #66

No

"Adventure of the Shooting Spooks"- must clear Jordan's name and capture crooks dressed as ghosts

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Detective #67

No

"The of the Country Crooner" - helps Midwestern yokel get a singing job


Detective #68

No

"The Case of the Talking Gun" - clears best friend's name


Detective #69

No

"The Magic Cupboard" - vs. crooks hoarding food


Detective #70

No

"Who Rubbed Out The Editor?" - captures murderer of newspaperman


Detective #71

No

"The Voice From Nowhere" - vs. Baldy, a crook running a metal-hording scams


Detective #72

No

"Larry Jordan vs. Air Wave" - Larry Jordan splits from Air Wave and fights him


Detective #73

No

"The Final Round" - Helps out an old prize fighter being set up by crooks


Detective #74

No

"The Man Who Avoided Metal" - breaks up ring of 5th columnists


Detective #75

No

"The Voice of Conscience" - convinces gangsters to confess by broadcasting messages through their fillings


Detective #76

No

"The Man Who Talked His Crimes" - rounds up Slugger and gang


Detective #77

No

"The Case of the Soundless Crimes" - vs. Dr. Silence


Detective #78

No

"Menace of the Mouse Traps" - rounds up Big Paul Anousi and gang


Detective #79

No

"The Tenderfoot gets Tough" - captures Spur Saunders and his gang when they try to hijack the search for a gold mine out west


Detective #80

No

"Static Steals the Show" - captures gang of jewel thieves


Detective #81

No

"Old MacDonald Had  A House" - capture crooks masquerading as farmers


Detective #82

No

"Rogues Along the River" - captures crooks in a sub


Detective #83

No

"The Case of the Runaway Plane" - captures Flash McClan and his gang at a model air show


Detective #84

No

"Bandits on the Beam" - defeats crooks communicating via a radio network


Detective #85

No

"Short Wave of Crime" - captures crooks coordinating crime by radio


Detective #86

No

"Mr. Smith Gets The Bird" - Catches a parrot-owning crook when Static ends up at the animal hospital


Detective #87

No

"Professor Long Sells Air Wave Short" -  Allows a doubting professor to accompany him on minor case to see that Air Wave's technology is real


Detective #88

No

"The Underworld Jam Session" - vs. "Snake-Eyes" Bentley

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Detective #89

No

"Man or Mouser" - vs. crooks with a trained cat.


Detective #90

No

"Battles of the Fans" - vs. neighborhood thugs


Detective #91

No

"Loot for Laughter" - vs. thieves after Maharajah's jewels


Detective #92

No

"The Hardworking Hoodlum" - thwarts Hasty Herman's efforts to become a better criminal


Detective #93

No

"Air Wave Joins the Underworld" - infiltrates gang as a Larry Jordan in disguise to capture the Big Boss and his gang


Detective #94

No

"The Ride of the Valkyries" - new crooks with affectations for opera and modern art roll into down but are made short work of by Air Wave


Detective #95

No

"The Phony Phantoms" - crooks "haunt" a house to run off a women and get at a mobster's hidden loot


Detective #96

No

"Crime Goes into Mourning" - Air Wave captures crooks using magician's tricks to appear invisible and commit crime


Detective #97

No

"Doubling in Danger" - crooks try to set Air Wave and Larry Jordan in conflict, unaware that they are one in the same


Detective #98

No

"Sound Effects of Air Wave" - thwarts Ugly Pannes's efforts to woo a woman


Detective #99

No

"Caution - Handle Without Care" - Breaks up dueling crooks debating conservative vs. risky approaches to crime


Detective #100

No

"The Living Statue" -vs. crooks hiding among statuary in a museum


Detective #101

No

"A Talking Doll" - captures crooks by using radio to talk through a doll


Detective #102

No

"Of Mice and Muggs" - captures escaped convicts


Detective #103

No

"The Candy Kid" - vs. crook smuggling emeralds in boxes of candy


Detective #104

No

"The Swag That Stole Itself" - vs. crooks staging robberies with balloons


Detective #105

No

"Polly Wants A Prize" - vs. crooks at bird show


Detective #106

No

"No Miracles for Muggs" - rounds up crooks using fake magic


Detective #107

No

"Calling Dr. Air Wave" - vs. Tiger and his gang


Detective #108

No

"Second Childhood" - captures crooks running a fake personality-switch scam


Detective #109

No

vs. Oscar Rainey - a crooked man running for mayor


Detective #110

No

"Crime Gets the Gong" - helps a former safecracker reform and captures the crooks trying to lure him back in


Detective #111

No

"The Case of the Unlucky Treasure Hunters" - defeats peg-legged Wolf Carson and his gang disguised as pirates


Detective #112

No

"District Attorney Larry Jordan...Convict" - vs. "Cheaters"


Detective #113

No

"The Radio Robbers" - vs. The Beam, a crook using radio waves to hijack vehicles and equipment to commit crimes


Detective #114

No

"The Night Owl's Musicale" - thwarts crooks trying to steal the master copy of a hit record


Detective #115

No

"Dead Men Can Tell Tales" - stops crooked swami exploiting family of slain solider, new costume with new emblem and no cape


Detective #116

No

"Short Circuit Air Wave" - crooks try to interfere with Air Wave's radio transmissions


Detective #117

No

"Three's a Mob!" - captures Lips, Fingers and Fly - three crooks with unique skills matching their names


Detective #118

No

"Moon Rocketeers" - vs. crooks disguised as Moon-Men


Detective #119

No

"The Talking Dog" -capture a crook in hiding at a local circus


Detective #120

No

"Safe-Cracker by Proxy" - captures safecrackers hiding out in a haunted house


Detective #121

No

"Happy Jail-Day to You!" - tracks crooks using a singing messengers service


Detective #122

No

"The Uncandid Camera" - Stops Slugs Meeker using a photography shop to the fool the police.


Detective #123

No

"The Voices of Spooky Sommers" - thwarts Duke Dugan's loan racket.


Detective #124

No

"The Crime Express" - Air Wave captures crooks on a train during the conductor's retirement run


Detective #125

No

"Prosecutor by Proxy" -  Larry Jordan has to try a case by proxy when crooks give Air Wave a black eye


Detective #126

No

"Felons in Furs" - capture fur coat thieves while a co-worker tries to boost his "will power" to impress a girl


Detective #127

No

"Rogues and Red Hots" - thwarts crooks using stolen radio technology to commit crimes


Detective #128

No

"The Bandits and the Bells" vs. Limpy, a crook with a lucky bell


Detective #129

No

"Crime Spots on the Sun" - When sunspots disrupt Air Wave's radio waves, he has to improve to catch some crooks


Detective #130

No

"Static Sees Doubles" - Air Wave creates a radio controlled double, which comes in handy when crooks figure out his secret identity


Detective #131

No

"Polly Wants to Crack a Safe" - vs. the Parrot


Detective #132

No

"Skates for Scoundrels" -rescues kids when they get mixed up with crooks in their courier service


Detective #133

No

"Radio Hams to the Rescue" - a group of amateur radio enthusiasts help Air Wave clean up emergencies in Tuttleville


Detective #134

No

"Calamity Incorporated" - crooks exploit a veteran with a silver plate in his skull which makes susceptible to manipulation


Detective #135

No

"Unscrambled Proverbs" - Thwarts crooks at a radio station while a nasty shock makes Static the Parrot start quoting proverbs correctly


Detective #136

No

"The City of Glass" - vs. "Flipper" Graw and his gang


Detective #137

No

"Cycle of Crimes" - Captures crooks masquerading as a newspaper boy