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'''''Ace [=McCoy=]''''' is an {{Adventure}} hero from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, published by Ace in ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #1-3 and ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #4-5. He's a crack pilot who solves crimes for the federal government with his mechanic and sidekick Bill Regan..
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!!This comic contains examples of:
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: {{Averted|Trope}}. In ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #4, Ace has to stop the BigBad from shooting him while they're parachuting by blasting the gun out of his hand. However, it's shown in a BloodlessCarnage way that the bullet went through his hand.
* DerelictGraveyard: The plot of the first issue has Ace investigating a ship's disappearance in the Sargasso Sea, which is portrayed as being full of ships that were caught in its gyres and the perfect lair for Nazi ship wreckers.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The focus of ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #2 seems to be on Ace and Regan thwarting an airplane hijacking carried out by a Nazi spy named Scholz, but about halfway through it's revealed that this was all part of a larger sabotage scheme led by [[spoiler:seemingly helpful military man Major Maxim.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: The villains of ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #3 were fired from commercial piloting, so they stole some government money meant to aid a recently-flooded area, leaving the residents of the town to likely death.
* EatTheEvidence: One of the baddies of ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #1 ate a piece of paper that was a clue in a battleship's disappearance.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Ace and Bill constantly travel together, to the point of renting a farmhouse together in ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #4.
* MacGuffin: ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #4 has Ace and Bill hired to secure a buoy full of diamonds that a criminal gang are also after.
* MightyWhitey: ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #2 has Ace saving Brazil's Air Force from Nazi sabotage.
* PragmaticVillainy: Black Marie, BigBad of ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #5, would just kill our heroes and her kidnap victim, but she doesn't want the heat a murder will bring, so she just leaves them in the wilderness to die instead.
* ProtagonistTitle
* RansomDrop: ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #5 has Ace and Bill air-dropping the money needed to rescue a kindapped movie star. The kidnappers then rob the plane in order to circumvent any possible traps at the stated drop site.
* StarterVillain: Captain von Hartmann, the leader of a Nazi shipwrecking operation. He's a formidable threat, but is killed in a U-boat crash at the end of the first issue.
* ThematicRoguesGallery: All of Ace's foes make use of fighter planes. This is, of course, because intense dogfights are the main draw of the comic.
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!!This comic contains examples of:
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: {{Averted|Trope}}. In ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #4, Ace has to stop the BigBad from shooting him while they're parachuting by blasting the gun out of his hand. However, it's shown in a BloodlessCarnage way that the bullet went through his hand.
* DerelictGraveyard: The plot of the first issue has Ace investigating a ship's disappearance in the Sargasso Sea, which is portrayed as being full of ships that were caught in its gyres and the perfect lair for Nazi ship wreckers.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The focus of ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #2 seems to be on Ace and Regan thwarting an airplane hijacking carried out by a Nazi spy named Scholz, but about halfway through it's revealed that this was all part of a larger sabotage scheme led by [[spoiler:seemingly helpful military man Major Maxim.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: The villains of ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #3 were fired from commercial piloting, so they stole some government money meant to aid a recently-flooded area, leaving the residents of the town to likely death.
* EatTheEvidence: One of the baddies of ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #1 ate a piece of paper that was a clue in a battleship's disappearance.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Ace and Bill constantly travel together, to the point of renting a farmhouse together in ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #4.
* MacGuffin: ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #4 has Ace and Bill hired to secure a buoy full of diamonds that a criminal gang are also after.
* MightyWhitey: ''Sure-Fire Comics'' #2 has Ace saving Brazil's Air Force from Nazi sabotage.
* PragmaticVillainy: Black Marie, BigBad of ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #5, would just kill our heroes and her kidnap victim, but she doesn't want the heat a murder will bring, so she just leaves them in the wilderness to die instead.
* ProtagonistTitle
* RansomDrop: ''Lightning Comics'' v1 #5 has Ace and Bill air-dropping the money needed to rescue a kindapped movie star. The kidnappers then rob the plane in order to circumvent any possible traps at the stated drop site.
* StarterVillain: Captain von Hartmann, the leader of a Nazi shipwrecking operation. He's a formidable threat, but is killed in a U-boat crash at the end of the first issue.
* ThematicRoguesGallery: All of Ace's foes make use of fighter planes. This is, of course, because intense dogfights are the main draw of the comic.
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