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Strato-Shooters. The Strato-Shooters were created by H. Bedford-Jones (John Bradford, James Bronson, Denis Burke (I), Denis Burke (II), Burket & O’Neill, Peter J. Clancy, Dick Clews, Vincent Connor, Cosgrave & Lundgren, Crawford, Riley Dillon, Colin Haig, Pinky Jenkins, Jungle Girl, Tertius March, Say-and-See Smith, John Solomon, Sphinx (II), Hugh Tyrone) and appeared in six short stories in Short Stories in 1943 and 1944, beginning with “All News Isn’t New” (Short Stories, Nov. 10, 1943).

The Strato-Shooters are the agents of International Air Control. In the years after the end of World War Two the I.A.C. is in charge of enforcing the peace. The world is continually crossed by advanced planes, including “huge six-engined Planetoid transports.” The agents of the I.A.C. are the “strato-shooters, as the Stratolines trouble-shooters called themselves. And the corps itself, a couple of dozen in all, was composed of picked men who could do anything from argue with a parliament to milk a cow.”

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