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| Interesting Roll call on page 28. So the Blackhawks were still fighting during the cold war?
Nice Cover too. |
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| Publication | October 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Credits from the Richard Steinberg interview In Alter Ego (Twomorrows, 1999 series) #32 (January 2004). |
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| Cover | The Cyclone Terror |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Blackhawk (and in vignette); Chop Chop (vignette); Olaf (vignette); Hendrickson (vignette); André (vignette); Chuck (vignette); Stanislaus (vignette)] |
| Notes | Credits from the Richard Steinberg interview In Alter Ego (Twomorrows, 1999 series) #32 (January 2004). |
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| Advertisement | Free! 100 Foreign Stamps and Illustrated Booklet (1 page) |
| Featuring | Garcelon Stamp Company |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover including the indicia.
An advertisement for 100 international stamps from the Garcelon Stamp Co. from Calais, Maine. |
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| Comic Story | The Cyclone From Hell! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Duke Pardo is expelled from the United States for his crimes back to his unnamed home country. He is contacted by Doctor Dragos who shows him the designs for the Tornado Top. Pardo sees this as a chance to take over the country. After nearly taking over the country, Pardo and his troops are defeated by the Blackhawks. Pardo dies fighting Blackhawk falling out of a crumbling airplane. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; "Duke" Pardo [John Pardo] (villain, introduction, death); Doctor Dragos (villain, introduction); unnamed judge; unnamed mafia dons; unnamed warden; unnamed country president; unnamed Pardo soldiers |
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| Advertisement | The Amazing Fish Bait in a Tube (1 page) |
| Featuring | Fast-Bite |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photographs);? (illustrations) | Inks:? (photographs);? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | An advertisement for Fast-Bite, fish bait in a tube for 98 cents from Illinois Merchandise Mart of Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Synopsis | After seeing a television commercial for the Dowdy Doody Dude Ranch, Chop Chop decides to go there to learn to be a cowboy. When he arrives, two cowboys put him through some rough moments including a ride on the horse Ornery. After being tossed around, Chop Chop and Ornery stop in front of a train causing it to stop. It is lucky they did because the train was approaching a break in the track which would have resulted in a derailment. Ornery runs off and Chop Chop decides to take the train back home as cowboy life is not for him. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Chop Chop; Twitch Along Staggerty; two unnamed cowboys; Ornery (horse); unnamed train conductor |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | The King of the Iron Men! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The nation of Costonya is willing to sell its uranium to the West but needs help in securing the mines. The Blackhawks, guarding the mine, are attacked by the Iron Men who wreck their jets & steal the uranium. Another fight with the Iron Men allows the Blackhawks to track them to the old Costonyan prison. There they confront the King of the Iron Men, Vorga who plans to sell the uranium to the highest bidder. But this is a robot version of Vorga. After a battle with Robot Vorga and Robot X-12, the Blackhawks track down the real Vorga, a towering former circus freak, and beat him in a fight. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; unnamed official; Vorga (villain, introduction); his robots (villains, introduction); Robot X-12 (villain, introduction) |
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| Text Story | No Clue of Danger (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Blackhawks protect the former King of Navarro from assassination by Prince Trovino, who abdicated his throne to work as a cafe owner. Trovino wants him dead because he does not believe Louis won't try to return. When Trovino is confronted by the Blackhawks, he is incensed he is being accused of plotting to kill the former king. Chop Chop is the one who figures out that Prince Trovino wiped his own cup to eliminate all traces of his fingerprints, a sign of someone up to no good. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; Louis [King Louis of Navarro]; Prince Trovino |
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| Comic Story | The Conference of the Dictators (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The President asks the Blackhawks to go to Moscow to find out what the plans are for the conference of world communist leaders. Aided by a United World submarine and members of the Russian Underground, they arrive at the conference but are soon captured. Malenkov decides to show the West a lesson, the Blackhawks are taken to training grounds to be subject to tests of their Chameleon Machine. They overcome the onslaught and able to get the plans for the machine and escape. The Underground gets them to safety and the plans given to the President, denying the other side the weapon. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; President of the United States (unnamed); Mao Tse-Tung (villain); Georgy Malenkov (villain); Kim Il Sung (villain); Walter Tzbo (villain); Boleslaw Bierut (villain); unnamed submarine commander; unnamed Russian underground members; Russian soldiers (villains |
| Notes | It was suggested to compare the work here with the stories in Plastic Man (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #41 (May 1953). |
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| Advertisement | Borrow Money by Mail! |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photographs);? (illustration) | Inks:? (photographs);? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On the top of the page.
An advertisement for loaning money through the mail by the State Finance Company of Omaha, Nebraska. |
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| Advertisement | Boys, Girls, Men, Women! |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Colors:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On the bottom half of the page.
An advertisement to sell religious mottos for display and earn prizes from The FUNman of Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Giant Beach Ball (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children |
| Notes | And advertisement with comic panels selling a giant beach ball for one dollar by Young Products of Detroit, Michigan. |
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| Advertisement | Need Extra Spending Money? (1 page) |
| Featuring | Stuart Greeting Cards |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photographs);? (illustrations) | Inks:? (photographs);? (illustrations) | Colors:? (photographs);? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
An advertisement for selling Stuart Greeting Cards and earning money and prizes from Stuart Greetings, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photographs);? (illustration) | Inks:? (photographs);? (illustration) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Charles Atlas |
| Notes | Back cover.
A Charles Atlas advertisement, without the comic strip art, for the body-building system "Dynamic Tension". |
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