Military Comics #14

(December 1942)

Tondeleyo (Table of Contents)

Blackhawk / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Reed Crandall

Inks:

Reed Crandall

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; war

Characters:

Blackhawk; Chop-Chop; Olaf; Hendrickson; Andre; Stanislaus; Chuck; Tondeleyo (villain, introduction, death?); Hans Oberst (villain, death); von Gurst (villain, death)

Synopsis:

Blackhawk challenges Nazi Ace Hans Oberst to an aerial duel to the death, which he accepts, but Blackhawk is unaware that it is a trap. However, a newcomer to Blackhawk Island, Tondeleyo, sows seeds of discontent and cowardice among the Blackhawks, and Chop-Chop is the only one to pull his friends out of their depression and take on the Nazis.

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 Sinister Dr. Holtz] (Table of Contents)

Sniper / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; adventure

[Mission To Yugoslavia] (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; Privatye Boomerang Jones; President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Synopsis:

The President of the United States personally enlists the Blue Tracer for a mission in the mountains of Yugoslavia, where the machine demonstrates its most powerful feat to date (and taxed it accordingly) by plunging from the sky and burrowing a tunnel straight through a mountain.

Keywords:

The Blue Tracer

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Johnny Doughboy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Gags

Characters:

Johnny Doughboy (first appearance)

[Fifty Million Foes] (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

The World's Dumbest Soldier (Table of Contents)

Private Dogtag / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bart Tumey

Pencils:

Bart Tumey

Inks:

Bart Tumey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Private Dogtag (first appearance); Voodini (first appearance; villain); Cameo: Winston Churchill (cameo)

Bill Hatch--Hero (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

[The Chumps and the Chetniks] (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

Life-Line To the East (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

[Destroying the Destroyers] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Al McWilliams

Pencils:

Al McWilliams

Inks:

Al McWilliams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; navy