Blackhawk
#102
(July 1956)
Quality Comics,
1944 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Brand
-
A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing
- Al Grenet (credited as Alfred Grenet) (editor); Richard Arnold (credited) (associate editor)
The Doom Cloud
Blackhawk / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- See the fantastic flying airport in The Doom Cloud
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]
- Synopsis
- At sea, The Blackhawks open fire on Red Chinese gliders and the "flying airport" craft that houses them.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- artillery; attack; gliders; Red Chinese; sea or island setting; ship
in 
in 
Master of Mankind
Blackhawk / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Adam X was an electronic brain--- a complex marvel of tubes and transistors, coils and relays!
- Feature Logo
Blackhawk [Quality Comics Logo]- Genre
- adventure; science fiction; aviation; military; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Professor Snye; Vera (Snye's niece); Adam X (computer); various robots; truck driver; various police; Tweedles (gangster); Weasel (Tweedles' toady); members of Tweedles' gang
- Synopsis
- Professor Snye creates "Adam X", a super-computer with world domination on its electronic mind. Protected by its own force field, and in command of a small army of robots, Adam X subdues its creator and begins its campaign of conquest.
- Keywords
- computer; gangsters; inventor; robots; science-out-of-control
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to "Dick Wood".
Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"No evil mind can rule a land... As long as we can take a hand!... We're Blackhawks!"
Critical Target
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the month of March, 1953, Squadron Commander Dawson received an order that made his face turn pale!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Colonel Bill Dawson; Captain Jim Carroll; sergeant (unnamed); corporal (unnamed); North Koreans (in splash panel only)
- Synopsis
- During the Korean War, Colonel Bill Dawson and Captain Jim Carroll are romantic rivals for the same gal back home. Carroll is also the best flight commander in Dawson's unit. When a critical target bombing mission falls to Dawson's command, he picks Carroll to lead the raid. Carroll dutifully sets out on the mission but feels Dawson has chosen him for reasons outside of his skill and experience.
- Keywords
- 1953; bombing mission; Korean War; romantic rivalry
Indexer Notes
Credits by Martin O'Hearn.
The Doom Cloud
Blackhawk / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Silent as the winds they rode, the Red Chinese gliders drifted down out of nowhere to dump their cargos of doom on Nationalist shipping!
- Feature Logo
- Blackhawk [Quality Comics Logo]
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk (Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Red Chinese glider pilot (opening splash panel only); crew of the freighter Lulane; radio man; squadron of Red Chinese glider pilots; Comrade Nichivo (Russian scientist)
- Synopsis
- The freighter Lulane, carrying munitions to Nationalist China is destroyed by a squadron of bomb-carrying Red Chinese gliders, which appear out of nowhere, attack, and swiftly vanish. The Blackhawks investigate a mysterious cloud that might hold the answer.
- Keywords
- attacks; cloud; Formosa; gliders; mystery; Red Chinese; sea or island setting; shipping
Indexer Notes
Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to "Dick Wood".
The scene depicted in the opening splash panel does not occur in the story.
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!"
Intercepted Peril
Blackhawk / text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Blackhawks had scored again for justice and democracy against the traitorous plot in Zingra City, but in Zingra, the formal duel is not only legal, but practically necessary in some cases.
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Colonel Farbo; Major Pordez; Captain Droksder
- Synopsis
- In Zingra, where dueling is not only legal but integral to the fabric of the culture, Blackhawk is provoked by his enemies into a succession of duels, until one of the duels eventually results in Blackhawk's quite-legal death.
- Reprints
-
from Blackhawk (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #68 (September 1953) which is reprinted - from Modern Comics (Quality Comics, 1945 series) #95 (March 1950)
-
- Keywords
- duel; far-off land; odds-stacked-against-you; title or logo modification
Indexer Notes
Original title for both of the two prior reprints was "Blackhawk's Challenge". Retitled for this issue only.
The Red Professor's Secret
Blackhawk / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The trail was hot! The scent was strong, giving off a particularly vile Red odor! The prey was West Germany's biggest and most dangerous spy ring!
- Feature Logo
- Blackhawk [Quality Comics Logo]
- Genre
- adventure; spy; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Fraulein Greta Hegel; Herr Koch (West German intelligence officer); Richter (Koch's aide); Professor Victor Gartmann (West German scientist); Baron Von Horla (East German spy); Von Horla's soldiers; West German police
- Synopsis
- A kidnapped West German scientist is the bait to lead The Blackhawks into a trap set by an East German spy ring operating from a 14th Century castle in West Germany.
- Keywords
- castle; Communists; East Germany; spies; West Germany
Indexer Notes
This story has no "story-ending Blackhawks' flying song".
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Doom Cloud
Blackhawk -
1.
Master of Mankind
Blackhawk -
2.
Critical Target
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3.
The Doom Cloud
Blackhawk -
4.
Intercepted Peril
Blackhawk -
5.
The Red Professor's Secret
Blackhawk
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- Henry Andrews
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Joe Torcivia
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