Military Comics #4

(November 1941)

Desert Death (Table of Contents)

Blackhawk / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner ?

Pencils:

Chuck Cuidera [as Chas. Cuidera) (signed)

Inks:

Chuck Cuidera [as Chas. Cuidera] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; war

Characters:

Blackhawk; Chop-Chop; Olaf; Stanislaus; Boris; Hendrick; Zeg; Black Tigress [Edda Heimat] (villain, introduction, death); Mueller (villain); the Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis:

Blackhawk captures the Black Tigress, who warns him that he will not hold her long, and that soon vast hoards of Arabs would sweep the English from Africa and control the Suez Canal.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in The Blackhawk Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 (September 2001)

Indexer Notes

Story title taken from cover; story includes, on page 11, a 1-page map of Blackhawk Island. Letterer credit per Cuidera, added by Craig Delich 2012-1-12.

[Trap For the Blue Tracer] (Table of Contents)

Blue Tracer / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fred Guardineer

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer

Inks:

Fred Guardineer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; aviation

Characters:

Nada (first appearance; villain)

Indexer Notes

story includes blueprints of Blue Tracer

[Saving the Columbia] (Table of Contents)

Loops and Banks / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Powell

Pencils:

Bob Powell (Bud Ernest)

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

[Two Freaks and the Greeks] (Table of Contents)

Shot and Shell / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Klaus Nordling

Pencils:

Klaus Nordling

Inks:

Klaus Nordling

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

[The Bandleader Spy] (Table of Contents)

Miss America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Indexer Notes

Miss America gets her costume; Joan Dale joins the FBI

[The Fiddler and the Ape] (Table of Contents)

Yankee Eagle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Stewart

Inks:

John Stewart

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

[The Five-Point Invasion of Britain] (Table of Contents)

Death Patrol / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dave Berg

Pencils:

Dave Berg

Inks:

Dave Berg

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; aviation; humor

Characters:

Butch (death); Chief Chuck-a-Lug (first appearance; joins the Death Patrol)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Sabotage / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tex Blaisdell; Lake French

Pencils:

Tex Blaisdell; Lake French

Inks:

Tex Blaisdell; Lake French

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Gags

[The Plot to Sink the Barracuda] (Table of Contents)

H.M.S. Barracuda / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ed Wexler?

Inks:

Ed Wexler?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Skiff Wilkins (first appearance; only appearance); Heinrich Himmler (villain)

No Greater Love (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tex Blaisdell

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

true story; Bravery Award

Bismarck Sunk (Table of Contents)

Secret War News / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al McWilliams

Pencils:

Al McWilliams

Inks:

Al McWilliams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; true

Indexer Notes

true story of the sinking of the Bismarck