Sky Girl: From Pilot To Waitress

Fiction House's Jumbo Comics was the publisher's most enduring title, and one of the regulars in this anthology was Ginger Maguire, a flighty redhead using the feature name of Sky Girl. Her actual creator is lost to time, but her writer was Bill Gibson which was a pen name for possibly more than one author and was originally drawn by Classics Illustrated's Alex Blum then later passed on to good girl artist extraordinaire Matt Baker who was the first black man to draw for a major comics publisher. Starting out as a ferry pilot in the Pacific during WWII, she ended up as a waitress working at an airport cafe where she would regularly get into one bizarre sitcom escapade after the other and for some reason have her hair fluctuate between red, gold, and strawberry blonde. One of the Sky Girl's distinctive dilemmas from Issue 111 had her getting snared into a movie deal where Stupendous Pictures is filming an aviator feature as she bungles trying to stop what she though was a kidnapping was really just the writers working on the script which causes Ginger to once again get fired by her boss Mr. Legree. Things begin to look up as she's asked by a pair of supposed studio workers to act as a stunt pilot on a plane while they really kidnap the star actor Randolf Roberts. Ginger gets wind of this only to get knocked out by of the bad guy's revolvers, but she regains consciousness just in time to take out the kidnappers with a nearby fire extinguisher and successfully lands the runaway plane. In keeping with the status quo, Ginger's valiant efforts will be having to be kept silent because the studio can't let people know their rugged actor was rescued by a random dame, so Mr. Legree just offers her old job back as opposed to becoming a genuine hero. Sky Girl is what happens if you tried to merge early Lucille Ball with Amelia Earheart since despite her constant efforts to being taken as a serious post-war pilot are always swept away by her whimsical talent for getting into trouble.