Military Comics
#14
(December 1942)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1942-10-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- John Beardsley
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Blackhawk / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tondeleyo, mysterious girl of the East, becomes part of the Blackhawk's mightiest adventure!
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk; Tondeleyo
- Reprints
-
in The Blackhawk Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 ([November] 2001)
-
Indexer Notes
The splash pages for the strips "The Sniper", "Phantom Clipper" and "Pacific Patrol" are also shown on the cover (art by their respective artists).
Change of cover artist / penciler from Reed Crandall to "Alex Kotzky ?" is based upon identification by Roger Hill.
Tondeleyo
Blackhawk / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop]; Tondeleyo (villain, introduction, apparent death); Hans Oberst (Nazi villain, suicide); von Gurst (Nazi villain, death); Herr Hauptman (Nazi villain)
- 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. 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
- in The Blackhawk Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 ([November] 2001)
-
[The Sinister Dr. Holtz]
The Sniper / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- The Sniper; Dr. Heinrich Holtz (villain, scientist, death)
- Synopsis
- The Sniper locates a mad scientist in the Black Forest who has the capability of reducing troops to microscopic size, then putting them into the body of a suicide bomber pilot heading for England. When the reverse serum is applied, the men would burst from the pilot's corpse. The Sniper shoots down the bomber and Holtz, the scientist, commits suicide.
[Mission to Yugoslavia]
Blue Tracer / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- aviation; war; adventure
- 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 ability to date by plunging from the sky and burrowing a tunnel straight through a mountain.
- Keywords
- The Blue Tracer
[no title indexed]
Johnny Doughboy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I just gotta hold him on my lap one last time before he leaves for camp
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Johnny Doughboy (first appearance); Ma; Pa; Lana Lamour
- Synopsis
- Johnny arrives at camp.
The World's Dumbest Soldier
Private Dogtag / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Bart Tumey (signed as Tumey)
- Pencils
- Bart Tumey (signed as Tumey)
- Inks
- Bart Tumey (signed as Tumey)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Private Dogtag (first appearance); Voodini (first appearance; villain); Cameo: Winston Churchill (cameo)
[The Chumps and the Chetniks]
Shot and Shell / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure; military
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Tondeleyo, mysterious girl of the East, becomes part of the Blackhawk's mightiest adventure!"]
Blackhawk -
1.
Tondeleyo
Blackhawk -
2.
[The Sinister Dr. Holtz]
The Sniper -
3.
[Mission to Yugoslavia]
Blue Tracer -
4.
["I just gotta hold him on my lap one last time before he leaves for camp"]
Johnny Doughboy -
5.
[Fifty Million Foes]
Phantom Clipper -
6.
The World's Dumbest Soldier
Private Dogtag -
7.
Bill Hatch -- Hero
-
8.
[The Chumps and the Chetniks]
Shot and Shell -
9.
Life-Line to the East
Secret War News -
10.
[Destroying the Destroyers]
Pacific Patrol
This issue was modified by, among others
- John Censullo
- Craig Delich
- John Fallon
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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