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| Publication | March 1956 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | For the cover illustration, a "generic looking" Communist military official mans the controls of the statue of doom. In the interior story, upon which this cover is based, the villain controlling the statue is far more distinctive and unconventional. |
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| Cover | Temple of Doom |
| Synopsis | Blackhawk swings down from a flying platform toward a Communist military official who is at the controls of a giant iron statue with a crushing arm. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Communist military official |
| Notes | For the cover illustration, a "generic looking" Communist military official mans the controls of the statue of doom. In the interior story, upon which this cover is based, the villain controlling the statue is far more distinctive and unconventional. |
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| Comic Story | The Phantom Saboteur (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Blackhawks raid a Russian spy house and a fight ensues. Amid the chaos, Russian Colonel Nichevo and some men take Olaf away into the Soviet Union. There, he is brainwashed by Dr. Kurov into becoming a saboteur and spy for the reds. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Colonel Nichevo (villain, introduction); Dr. Kurov (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"Whatever tricks the reds may try...We match their cunning as we fly...We're Blackhawks!" |
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| Comic Story | David and Goliath In the Sky (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of a World War I battle between British Lt. S.D. Culley and his Sopwith Camel fighter plane against a great German zeppelin. |
| Featuring | War in the Sky |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Military; War | Characters: Lt. S.D. Culley |
| Notes | Credits for this story by Martin O'Hearn. |
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| Comic Story | The Temple of Doom (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tavis, a defense contractor to the nations of the free world, demonstrates a new “ducted-fan aircraft” (an individual flying platform) to Blackhawk and his men. Ushering them aboard a larger version of the craft that seats all seven Blackhawks, Tavis (from a safe vantage point) activates a remote control that spirits them off to an unnamed Communist nation. There, the waiting General Molok, a dictator and would-be filmmaker, forces the Blackhawks to perform in a propaganda film - with deadly consequences for the Magnificent Seven. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk (Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Tavis; General Molok (villain, introduction); Moloch the Destroyer (ancient god) |
| Notes | 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!"
Unlike the "generic looking" Communist military official on the issue's cover, General Molok looks more like a "communist military-garbed" version of famed film director Alfred Hitchcock. ...Coincidence? |
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| Text Story | The Wild Jungle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Blackhawks close in on the jungle hideout of wanted criminal Durie, only to find it defended by a squad of armed men... and the Oglutes, "...the last, and worst, of the untamed head-hunters". |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Durie; Durie's men; Oglutes (head-hunters) |
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| Comic Story | The Black Flag (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | 250 years before, the infamous pirate, Morgan, attempted to land on an island to bury his war booty, but was driven away. Now, to commemorate 250 years of freedom, the islanders of Hermoso invite the Blackhawks to the celebration. However, a real, evil pirate of sorts named Morgg intervenes and stages a real invasion. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Governor Drage; Mayor Luro; Captain Morgg (villain, introduction); inhabitants of Hermoso Island; Morgg's pirate crew |
| Notes | Plot-wise, this story bears a strong resemblance to the three-part Mickey Mouse serial "The Pirates of Tabasco Bay" by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry, from WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES (Dell, 1940 series) #191-193 (August thru October 1956) and reprinted in DISNEY MASTERS (Fantagraphics, 2018 series) #7 "Mickey Mouse: The Pirates of Tabasco Bay" (2019) [https://www.comics.org/issue/1936431/#3392797], where Black Pete's real pirates take the place of mock pirates scheduled to perform at a "Pirate Days Festival" concocted by Mickey Mouse to drum up tourism for a faded waterfront resort town. These stories would have appeared just months apart.
Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"When ancient evils come by sea... We're still alert to keep men free... We're Blackhawks!" |
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