Military Comics #7

(February 1942)

The Return of Genghis Khan! (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:

Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Hendrickson; Olaf; Chop-Chop; 1 other unidentifiable member (see Note #2 for possible candidates)]; Winston Churchill (cameo); President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo, voice only); unnamed Padré (death); unnamed guardian of Genghis Khan's tomb (death); Genghis Khan II (reincarnation of Genghis Khan, villain, introduction, death); Adolph Hitler (Nazi villain, cameo); Von Trope (Nazi envoy, presumably killed)

Synopsis:

Genghis Khan is re-born and starts on his reign of terror, until Blackhawk catches up with him. However, Blackhawk is captured and even Chop-Chop becomes one of Khan's own Generals, but recovers his sanity in time to release his leader.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

(1) Letterer credit per Cuidera and added by Craig Delich 2012-1-14.
(2) The 1 unidentified member could be Stanislaus, Zeg, or Chuck (or possibly Boris).

The Iceberg of Death (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:

aviation; war

[Cannibal Island] (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 Death of Herr Brock] (Table of Contents)

Sniper / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; war

Characters:

Franz Brock (first appearance; villain; death)

[Van Der Dopple's Rice Paddies] (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

[Spies In the Shipyard] (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 Patchwork Kid] (Table of Contents)

Death Patrol / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dave Berg

Pencils:

Dave Berg

Inks:

Dave Berg

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; aviation; war

Characters:

The Death Patrol [Del Van Dyke; Butch; Hank; King Hotintot; Boris; The Patchwork Kid [aka Frere Jacques in issue #9] (introduction)]

Indexer Notes

This tale is one of two (#7 and #8) that no member of the Patrol was killed in the story.

[The Moth] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Maurice Kashuba

Pencils:

Maurice Kashuba

Inks:

Maurice Kashuba

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Moth (first appearance; villain; death); Miss America

Indexer Notes

Art and writing credit from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Miss America next app. in ALL-STAR SQUADRON #31

[The Green Terror] (Table of Contents)

Inferior Man / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee (signed)

Pencils:

Al Jaffee (signed)

Inks:

Al Jaffee (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; superhero

Characters:

Inferior Man [Courtney Fudd] (introduction); The Green Terror (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

The Quartermaster at Fort Bang dons an emblem and cape, calling himself Inferior Man, in order to take care of the Green Terror by whipping out his sissy serum and turning the Terror into a dancing dandy.

Keywords:

Fort Bang; sissy serum

Indexer Notes

Jaffee, wanting to get into comic books, was hired by Will Eisner to do this strip,but he soon found that his style ill-suited for the wartime hero books, and the strip being astoundingly anachronistic for its parody of the superhero.

Women of France (Table of Contents)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Everett M. Arnold

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

wrong statement printed. This is for Police Comics.
Comic Magazines Inc. 322 Main ST Stamford, CT
Editor: Edward Cronin 322 Main ST Stamford, CT
Bus Mgr: Everett M. Arnold 198 Shore Rd Old Greenwich, CT
Owners: Everett M. Arnold, Claire C. Arnold
Henry P. Martin 8 Foster Dr. Des Moines, Ia
Printed at Buffalo, NY

Phantom Army of Vengeance (Table of Contents)

Secret War News / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al McWilliams

Pencils:

Al McWilliams

Inks:

Al McWilliams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction; war

Indexer Notes

true story

[The U. S. Greer] (Table of Contents)

Atlantic Patrol / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al McWilliams

Pencils:

Al McWilliams

Inks:

Al McWilliams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Keywords:

navy

Indexer Notes

true story