Military Comics #6

(January 1942)

The Vial of Death! (Table of Contents)

Blackhawk / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick French

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; Boris; Stanislaus; Zeg; Hendrick; Professor Hammel (introduction, death); Elsa Hammel (introduction, death); Pierre (Hammel's assistant); the Nazis (villains, many die)

Synopsis:

Blackhawk succeeds in getting a diabolical formula back for a destructive killer germ from the Nazis, who plan to use it to wipe out Allied forces, then takes it on the run as the Nazis concentrate their forces to catch him and get it back.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Cuidera and added by Craig Delich 2012-1-14.

[To Kill a Commander] (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

[The Invasion of Iceland] (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

[The Crime School] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Ed Wexler?

Pencils:

Ed Wexler?

Inks:

Ed Wexler?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

[Clothes Make the Men] (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 Trap For Jerry Noble] (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 Painted Lady Patrol] (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:

Boris (first appearance; joins the Death Patrol); Gramps (appears to die, but returns in #12); Adolf Hitler (villain)

[Potato's Revenge] (Table of Contents)

Diary of a Draftee / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tex Blaisdell

Pencils:

Tex Blaisdell

Inks:

Tex Blaisdell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Gags

Indexer Notes

last appearance

[The Fiend of the Wilhelmstrasse] (Table of Contents)

Sniper / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; adventure

Characters:

Hans Kronitz (villain; death)

The Avenger (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Who Is Monsieur X? (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