Tailspin Tommy was a youthful pilot, living in Littleville, Colorado. Tommy Tomkins had such an obsession with flying that he was given the nickname Tailspin Tommy before he ever actually went inside a plane. Although Tommy took an aero-engineering correspondence course, his real introduction to aviation happened when mail pilot Milt Howe made an emergency landing in a field near Tommy's neighborhood.

Tommy watched the downward spiral of Milt's plane and ran to help. Howe rewarded Tommy with a greasemonkey job in Texas at the Three Point Airlines, where he soon became a pilot along with his girlfriend, Betty Lou Barnes, and his best buddy, Peter "Skeeter" Milligan. The trio eventually became part owners in Three Point and took off for many airborne adventures.

All published appearances of Tailspin Tommy from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

* Tailspin Tommy Comic Strip (1928-1930)
* Tailspin Tommy (Cupples & Leon 1932 series) #1
* Tailspin Tommy Adventure Magazine #1-2
* Famous Funnies #1
* Popular Comics #1-3, 8, 28-31, 33, 35-46
* The Funnies #1-19
* Best Seller Comics #1
* Comics on Parade v2 #9-12, v3 #1-5
* Single Series #23
* Tip Top Comics v5 #8-12, v6 #2-12, v7 #1-9, v8 #1-8,12, v9 #4-6

* Tailspin Tommy In The Great Air Mystery (1936)
* Tailspin Tommy and the Lost Transport (1939)

* All Tailspin Tommy comic strips published before January 1, )-(95)}}, had their copyright expire January 1, 2025.
*Illustrated by Hal Forrest and distributed by John Neville Wheeler's Bell Syndicate and then by United Feature Syndicate, the strip had a 14-year run from May 21, 1928, to March 15, 1942.
* In 1934, Universal Studios released a 12-part Tailspin Tommy serial — the first movie serial about a comic strip character.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailspin_Tommy Wikipedia]
*[http://www.art4comics.com/tailspin.htm Art 4 Comics]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130318153937/http://www.collectair.com/tailspin.html Collect Air: Tailspin Tommy]
*[http://www.toonopedia.com/tailspin.htm Toonopedia]
*[https://newspapercomicstripsblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/tailspin-tommy/ Newspaper Comic Strips Blog]
*[https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/bcoppola/2022/06/03/tailspin-tommy-october-31-1939/ University of Michigan]
*[https://heykidscomics.fandom.com/wiki/Tailspin_Tommy Hey Kid Comcis Wiki]
*[https://comicbookplus.com/search/?q=Tailspin+Tommy#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Tailspin%20Tommy&gsc.page=1 Comic Book Plus]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/tailspin-tommy/4005-40239/ ComicVine]
*[https://www.comics.org/feature/17460/ GCD]
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