| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1956 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Doom Cloud |
| Synopsis | At sea, The Blackhawks open fire on Red Chinese gliders and the "flying airport" craft that houses them. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop] |
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| Comic Story | Master of Mankind (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Snye creates "Adam X", a super-computer with world domination on its electronic mind. Protected by its own force field, and in command of a small army of robots, Adam X subdues its creator and begins its campaign of conquest. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Professor Snye; Vera (Snye's niece); Adam X (computer); various robots; truck driver; various police; Tweedles (gangster); Weasel (Tweedles' toady); members of Tweedles' gang |
| Notes | Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to "Dick Wood".
Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"No evil mind can rule a land... As long as we can take a hand!... We're Blackhawks!" |
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| Comic Story | Critical Target (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | During the Korean War, Colonel Bill Dawson and Captain Jim Carroll are romantic rivals for the same gal back home. Carroll is also the best flight commander in Dawson's unit. When a critical target bombing mission falls to Dawson's command, he picks Carroll to lead the raid. Carroll dutifully sets out on the mission but feels Dawson has chosen him for reasons outside of his skill and experience. |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Colonel Bill Dawson; Captain Jim Carroll; sergeant (unnamed); corporal (unnamed); North Koreans (in splash panel only) |
| Notes | Credits by Martin O'Hearn. |
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| Comic Story | The Doom Cloud (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The freighter Lulane, carrying munitions to Nationalist China is destroyed by a squadron of bomb-carrying Red Chinese gliders, which appear out of nowhere, attack, and swiftly vanish. The Blackhawks investigate a mysterious cloud that might hold the answer. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk (Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Red Chinese glider pilot (opening splash panel only); crew of the freighter Lulane; radio man; squadron of Red Chinese glider pilots; Comrade Nichivo (Russian scientist) |
| Notes | Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to "Dick Wood".
The scene depicted in the opening splash panel does not occur in the story.
Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"We've met the enemy's snare... We've tripped the trap and there... We nailed the wall of freedom tight... We're Blackhawks!" |
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| Text Story | Intercepted Peril (1 page) |
| Synopsis | In Zingra, where dueling is not only legal but integral to the fabric of the culture, Blackhawk is provoked by his enemies into a succession of duels, until one of the duels eventually results in Blackhawk's quite-legal death. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Colonel Farbo; Major Pordez; Captain Droksder |
| Notes | Original title for both of the two prior reprints was "Blackhawk's Challenge". Retitled for this issue only. |
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| Comic Story | The Red Professor's Secret (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A kidnapped West German scientist is the bait to lead The Blackhawks into a trap set by an East German spy ring operating from a 14th Century castle in West Germany. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Fraulein Greta Hegel; Herr Koch (West German intelligence officer); Richter (Koch's aide); Professor Victor Gartmann (West German scientist); Baron Von Horla (East German spy); Von Horla's soldiers; West German police |
| Notes | This story has no "story-ending Blackhawks' flying song". |
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