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Hartley, Headline. Headline Hartley was created by Darrell Jordan (Comet (II)) and appeared in ten stories in Dare-Devil Aces and Battle Birds from 1935 to 1941, beginning with “The Headline Ace” (Dare-Devil Aces, Oct. 1935).

For many years “Headline” Hartley was a news reporter and headline writer, and even now he speaks in headlines. But the time is World War One, and Hartley is part of A Flight, Sixth Pursuit. Most of his enemies are ordinary German aviators, but occasionally he clashes with men who use cyanide gas or a form of madness-inducing heroin. Hartley is not handsome, but his “snapping blue eyes and nervous movements suggested the mental and physical alertness of a terrier.”

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