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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 ..."

Link to the book: Military Comics 04 (fiche)