Military Comics #12

(October 1942)

[The Curse of Xanukhara] (Table of Contents)

Blackhawk / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick French

Pencils:

Reed Crandall

Inks:

Reed Crandall

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; war

Characters:

Blackhawk; Chop-Chop; Stanislaus; Chuck; Andre; Olaf; Hendrickson; Major Brandon; Hammil Zorrex (introduction, original briefcase bearer, death); The "Briefcase Bearer" (introduction, unknown bearded narrator); Xanukhara (villain, introduction); Korz (villain, death); Zara (villain, sentry for Xanukhara)

Synopsis:

The Blackhawks are in pursuit of a leather briefcase.....a briefcase that contains a priceless, pre-determined plan of human existence which will be disrupted upon its disclosure, and which affects the outcome of World War II. In fact, the two billion years of evolution are but a chapter in the gigantic plan!

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Story title taken from a panel on the cover. Letterer credit per Mark Evanier and added by Craig Delich 2012-1-15. Mark Evanier states in the Archive edition that Alex Kotzky appears to have assisted Crandall on his early Blackhawk stories. The Who's Who lists Kotzky as a Blackhawk artist from 1942-44/47. Xanukhara's and the "Briefcase Bearer"'s next appearances are in Military Comics #29.

[The Trial of Count Grubber] (Table of Contents)

Sniper / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; adventure

[Fruitcakes In France] (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 Mess In Tokyo] (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 Gestapo's Costume Ball] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Hebboa?

Inks:

Bob Hebboa?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

[The Mikado's Fishing Trip] (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

Characters:

Hirohito (villain)

[Torpedo Tussle] (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

Synopsis:

Inferior Man joins the Navy.

[Deathtrap For the Death Patrol] (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:

Death Patrol; Adolf Hitler (villain); Gramps (returns from the "dead"); Hank (returns from the "dead"); Hottentot (returns from the "dead")

Indexer Notes

Gramps, Hank, and Hottentot next app. in #20.

Death To the Killer! (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

The Thing (Table of Contents)

The 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:

Captain William "Wild Bill" Dunn; Private Boomerang Jones; The Thing (villain, introduction, a robot, death); Emperor Hirohito (villain); the Japanese (villains)

Synopsis:

The Tracer must fend off its Japanese military robot counterpart, The Thing, which is equally impervious to harm.......that is, until Dunn discovers its Achilles Heel: the human operator!

Keywords:

The Blue Tracer

Saga of the U.S.S. Marblehead (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

[Navy Blimp K-5] (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