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| Fred Guardineer Blue Tracer is paper scan. Everything else is fiche. |
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| Publication | December 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | The splash pages for the strips "The Sniper", "Phantom Clipper" and "Pacific Patrol" are also shown on the cover (art by their respective artists).
Change of cover artist / penciler from Reed Crandall to "Alex Kotzky ?" is based upon identification by Roger Hill. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk; Tondeleyo |
| Notes | The splash pages for the strips "The Sniper", "Phantom Clipper" and "Pacific Patrol" are also shown on the cover (art by their respective artists).
Change of cover artist / penciler from Reed Crandall to "Alex Kotzky ?" is based upon identification by Roger Hill. |
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| Comic Story | Tondeleyo (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blackhawk challenges Nazi ace Hans Oberst to an aerial duel to the death, which he accepts, but Blackhawk is unaware that it is a trap. A newcomer to Blackhawk Island, Tondeleyo, sows seeds of discontent and cowardice among the Blackhawks, and Chop-Chop is the only one to pull his friends out of their depression and take on the Nazis. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop]; Tondeleyo (villain, introduction, apparent death); Hans Oberst (Nazi villain, suicide); von Gurst (Nazi villain, death); Herr Hauptman (Nazi villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Sinister Dr. Holtz (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Sniper locates a mad scientist in the Black Forest who has the capability of reducing troops to microscopic size, then putting them into the body of a suicide bomber pilot heading for England. When the reverse serum is applied, the men would burst from the pilot's corpse. The Sniper shoots down the bomber and Holtz, the scientist, commits suicide. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Sniper; Dr. Heinrich Holtz (villain, scientist, death) |
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| Comic Story | Mission to Yugoslavia (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The President of the United States personally enlists the Blue Tracer for a mission in the mountains of Yugoslavia, where the machine demonstrates its most powerful ability to date by plunging from the sky and burrowing a tunnel straight through a mountain. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Captain William "Wild Bill" Dunn; Privatye Boomerang Jones; President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Synopsis | Johnny arrives at camp. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Johnny Doughboy (first appearance); Ma; Pa; Lana Lamour |
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| Comic Story | Fifty Million Foes (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Comic Story | The World's Dumbest Soldier (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Private Dogtag (first appearance); Voodini (first appearance; villain); Cameo: Winston Churchill (cameo) |
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| Text Story | Bill Hatch -- Hero (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Chumps and the Chetniks (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation |
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| Comic Story | Life-Line to the East (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War |
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| Comic Story | Destroying the Destroyers (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: War |
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