Military Comics #10

(June 1942)

Trapped In the Devil's Oven (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; Andre; Olaf; Hendrick; Zeg; Boris; Dr. Fritz von Rath; Barbara Von Rath (introduction); Abul El Hadoun (villain, Arab leader); un-named Nazi-influenced Arabs (villains, some die); Baron von Ziefh (villain); un-named Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis:

Andre is brought back to Blackhawk Island, to be operated on by the reknowned plastic surgeon, von Rath, who was recently rescued from a concentration camp. Unfortunately for Andre, the doctor, whose mind is still adversely affected from his captivity and because the Germans hold his daughter captive, gives Andre the face of the doctor's former concentration camp commander!

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Story title taken from the cover. Letterer credit per Cuidera and added by Craig Delich 2012-1-15.

[The Story of Signor Barezzi] (Table of Contents)

Sniper / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Pencils:

Jay?

Inks:

Jay?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; adventure

[Mission For Stalin] (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

Characters:

Josef Stalin; Adolf Hitler (villain)

[Dummies and Mummies] (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

[King Hottentot's Return] (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:

war; aviation; humor

Characters:

Prince Hottentot (first appearance; joins the Death Patrol); King Hottentot (apparently dies, but returns in #12)

[Saving the Picardy] (Table of Contents)

Phantom Clipper / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Fred Kida

Inks:

Fred Kida

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; navy

[Borrowing the Brooklyn Bridge] (Table of Contents)

Inferior Man / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee

Pencils:

Al Jaffee

Inks:

Al Jaffee

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Inferior Man; Mr. Fudd (first appearance; Inferior Man's father)

[The Lady of the Island] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; aviation

Characters:

Captain "Wild Bill" Dunn; Private Boomerang Jones; She-Wolf of the Java Sea (reformed villain); the Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis:

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Bill Dunn and his partner Jones help out the beleaguered forces of freedom in the Pacific Theater by using the capabilities of the Blue Tracer against Japanese bombers in the South Sea islands, sinking a Japanese destroyer. Dunn shows films of the Japanese brutality to a half-Japanese woman, who later joins the Allied cause.

Keywords:

The Blue Tracer

Fire Afloat (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

true story of the burning of the Normandie

[U.S.S. Panama] (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; navy

[A Brother's Betrayal, A Daughter's Rescue Mission] (Table of Contents)

X of the Underground / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Chuck Cuidera?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

17 Plane Jap Armada Vs. Tiny Tender (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:

war; true

Indexer Notes

true story