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| What a confusing Yankee Eagle story. The middies are in the house, then Jerry frees them, then they're locked up in a tree? |
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| (Page 13) -- What a disappointment. I was looking forward to seeing that map of Blackhawk Island (there was a tiny panel of it in issue #2 with not much room for detail). In this issue, if drawn to scale (and why would we assume otherwise? apart from the huge signposts, that is) there's barely enough room -- and it's debateable -- for a safe landing. The island shown HERE is only a bit larger than an aircraft carrier. The earlier smaller panel in #2 showing the island had several barracks buildings (retractable by lowering into the ground), an entire harbor filled with a private navy, and even a huge (again retractable, as well as pivoting) zeppelin shed, in addition to at least half a dozen ack-ack gun emplacements. Obviously back in issue #2, they were envisioning a much more elaborate and realistic-type Blackhawks operation, with various support staff, backup pilots, and the whole magilla. In addition to the mysterious Boris and Zeg, as well as the mentioned-but-not-seen (as far as we knew) Vladim, this was before Chuck and Chop Chop had even made their appearance, yet when Blackhawk introduces his pilots, he mentions that "These are *some* of my men ... you'll meet the others later ..." |
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| That Yankee Eagle story has got more problems, like, Jerry steals a half dozen grenades from a squad car, and hands them off to Sam, the Eagle. Do Annapolis cops carry around poorly-guarded supplies of grenades? Apparently so. Can Sam pull the pins of live grenades and use them to kill fleeing felons? Apparently so. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Desert Death |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War |
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| Comic Story | Desert Death (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blackhawk captures the Black Tigress, who warns him that he will not hold her long, and that soon vast hordes of Arabs would sweep the English from Africa and control the Suez Canal. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Black Tigress [Edda Heimat] (Nazi villain, introduction, death); unnamed hairdresser (Nazi villain); Mueller (Nazi villain); Nazis (villains, some die) |
| Notes | (1) Story title is taken from the cover.
(2) Letterer credit per Cuidera, added by Craig Delich January 12, 2012.
(3) The 2 unidentified members are likely Stanislaus and Chuck (or possibly Boris).
(4) A full-page map of Blackhawk's Island is featured on page 11. |
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| Comic Story | Trap for the Blue Tracer (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Bill Dunn; Boomerang Jones; Herr Gaulieter; Nada (first appearance, villain) |
| Notes | Story includes blueprints of Blue Tracer. |
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| Comic Story | Saving the Columbia (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation |
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| Comic Story | Two Freaks and the Greeks (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Sam Shot; Slim Shell |
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| Synopsis | Joan quits her job on the newspaper and joins the F.B.I. She adopts her striking costume. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Tim Healy (Joan's boss) |
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| Comic Story | The Fiddler and the Ape (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jerry Noble; Sam (an eagle) |
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| Comic Story | The Five-Point Invasion of Britain (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Death Patrol's newest member, Chief Chuck-a-Lug, defies orders in attacking the Nazis, and goes out and took down several Nazi planes. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Aviation; War | Characters: The Death Patrol [Del Van Dyne; Gramps; Hank; Butch (death); Zazzy; Chief Chuck-a-Lug (introduction)] |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
| Notes | Four one-panel cartoons. Final appearance. |
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| Cartoon | The Crap Game |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
| Notes | Gag strip. Final appearance in Military Comics. The feature later shows up at Fox, in The Green Mask (Fox, 1940 Series) #10 (August 1944) and All Great Comics (Fox, 1944 Series) #[nn] (1944). |
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| Comic Story | H. M. S. Barracuda (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Skiff Wilkins (first appearance, only appearance); Heinrich Himmler (villain) |
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| Text Story | No Greater Love (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Notes | true story; Bravery Award |
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| Comic Story | Bismarck Sunk (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War |
| Notes | True story of the sinking of the Bismarck. |
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