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Dave 'Lofty'
Banks is the sole survivor of an ill fated breakout from a
German Stalag Luft in 1943. Lofty decides the best way to get
home is to steal an ME-109 from a nearby Luftwaffe squadron. He
ambushes an SS officer, Major Ranke, and steals his uniform.
Lofty's knowledge of German enables him to infiltrate the base
without raising the alarm, but once airborne, he gets into a
fire fight with an RAF Wellington. His plane disabled, Lofty is
forced to return to the Luftwaffe squadron, but seeing how easy
it is to pass among the enemy unnoticed, he decides to stay put,
fighting the Luftwaffe from the inside. Unfortunately, another
ace pilot, Kapitan von Wolfgang, met the real Major Ranke years
before, and becomes suspicious of the impostor. Will "Lofty me
boy" make it back to Blighty before he is discovered?
Lofty's One Man Luftwaffe was written by a variety of
regular Battle contributors, with indifferent art from
Ongaro and Houghton and artists from the Lindon Agency. The strip was regularly in the bottom three when it came
to readers' opinions of the most popular Battle strips. It was
joined there by The Flight of the Golden Hinde and
The Terror Behind
the Bamboo Curtain. All three strips were brought to early
conclusions, but their replacements, stories that were held back
from the initial line up of the weekly, fared no better. Lofty
was reprinted in late 1987 and ran until the merger with Eagle. |
