Military Comics #13

(November 1942)

The Butcher! (Table of Contents)

Blackhawk / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Reed Crandall

Inks:

Reed Crandall

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; war

Characters:

Blackhawk; Andre; Hendrickson; Olaf; Chop-Chop; Chuck; Stanislaus; Countess Elsia (death); un-named maid of Countess (death); The Butcher [Baron Von Tepp] (villain, introduction, death, brother of Von Tepp in Military #1); Adolf Hitler (villain); Schultz (villain)

Synopsis:

When the Countess Elsia stands up Baron von Tepp for a dinner date, he decides to send his troops to get her, and she narrowly escapes and nearly perishes before Blackhawk can save her. However, all the efforts of Blackhawk cannot save the Countess. Then and there, the Blackhawks decide to track down von Tepp, better known as "The Butcher" (because he loves to just kill people for the Führer) to avenge them and the late Countess.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Mark Evanier in the Archives edition. 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.

[The Gold of France] (Table of Contents)

Sniper / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; adventure

The Nazi Rocket Tank (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 Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

The Nazis develop their own Rocket Tank to combat the Blue Tracer. However, the Tracer beats it by riding it from above into a rock, where the local Russians finish it off with Molotov cocktails.

Keywords:

The Blue Tracer; The Rocket Tank (introduction)

[The Society of Thugs] (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 Raider Prince Hugen] (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

There Are More Ways Than One To Skin a Cat (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

Indexer Notes

last appearance

[Busting the Dive-Bomber] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee

Pencils:

Al Jaffee

Inks:

Al Jaffee

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Indexer Notes

last appearance

Follow the Moon (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

[Chief Sourpus] (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

Indexer Notes

last appearance

U.S. Fliers Crush Jap Fleet (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 of Battle of Midway

[Incident On Amagansett Beach] (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