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| Publication | June 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | The Archives edition credits the Will Eisner Shop for the art on this cover. |
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| Cover | Trapped in the Devil's Oven |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawk; Andre |
| Notes | The Archives edition credits the Will Eisner Shop for the art on this cover. |
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| Comic Story | Trapped in the Devil's Oven (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Andre is brought back to Blackhawk Island, to be operated on by the renowned plastic surgeon, Dr. Fritz von Rath, who was recently rescued from a concentration camp. Unfortunately for Andre, the doctor, whose mind is still adversely affected from his captivity and because the Germans hold his daughter captive, gives Andre the face of the doctor's former concentration camp commander, Baron von Ziefh! In the end, the doctor fixes Andre's face, and Andre becomes engaged to his daughter, Barbara. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck (introduction, unnamed); Hendrickson; Olaf; Chop-Chop; 1 other unidentifiable member (see Note #3 for possible candidates)]; Dr. Fritz von Rath; Barbara von Rath (introduction); Abul el Hadoun (villain, Arab leader); Baron von Ziefh (Nazi villain); unnamed Nazi-influenced Arabs (villains, some die); Nazis (villains, some die) |
| Notes | (1) Story title taken from the cover.
(2) Letterer credit per Cuidera and added by Craig Delich 2012-1-15.
(3) The 1 unidentified member could be Stanislaus or Zeg (or possibly Boris).
(4) Introduction of Chuck in a single panel (page 2 panel 4). Name not given until the next issue.
(5) Olaf is erroneously shown with black hair on page 1.
(6) Andre becomes engaged to Barbara von Rath at the end of this issue. |
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| Comic Story | The Story of Signor Barezzi (6 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils: Jacob Landau [as Jay] (signed) | Inks: Jacob Landau [as Jay] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War |
| Notes | Artist identified here: http://imprint.printmag.com/steven-brower/the-lost-comics-of-artist-jacob-landau/ |
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| Comic Story | Mission for Stalin (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Josef Stalin; Adolf Hitler (villain) |
| Notes | Signed in the last panel. |
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| Comic Story | Dummies and Mummies (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation |
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| Comic Story | King Hottentot's Return (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | While on a mission, the Patrol apparently loses another member, King Hotintot, who is quickly replaced by his son. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Aviation; War | Characters: The Death Patrol [Del Van Dyne; Boris; Frere Jacques; Goucho; Mademoiselle from Armentieres; Prince Totintot (introduction, son of King Hotintot); King Hotintot (apparently dies, but returns in #12) |
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| Comic Story | Saving the Picardy (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Comic Story | Borrowing the Brooklyn Bridge (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Courtney "buys" the Brooklyn Bridge and asks Kitch the Witch to move it with her magic to his hometown of Screamin' Ridge, New Jersey. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Inferior Man [Courtney Fudd]; Mr. Fudd (Inferior Man's father, introduction); Kitch the Witch |
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| Comic Story | The Lady of the Island (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Bill Dunn and his partner Jones help out the beleaguered forces of freedom in the Pacific Theater by using the capabilities of the Blue Tracer against Japanese bombers in the South Sea islands, sinking a Japanese destroyer. Dunn shows films of the Japanese brutality to a half-Japanese woman, who later joins the Allied cause. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Captain "Wild Bill" Dunn; Private Boomerang Jones; She-Wolf of the Java Sea (reformed villain); the Japanese (villains, some die) |
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| Text Story | Fire Afloat (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The true story is related of the burning of "The Normandie". |
| Featuring | The Normandie |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Historical |
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| Comic Story | U.S.S. Panama (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Comic Story | A Brother's Betrayal, A Daughter's Rescue Mission (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | In Norway, X helps Elsa Larson liberate her father from a concentration camp. |
| Content | Genre: Spy |
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| Comic Story | 17 Plane Jap Armada Vs. Tiny Tender (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War |
| Notes | true story |
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