Military Comics #15

(January 1943)

Men Who Never Came Back (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; Andre; Olaf; Hendrickson; Stanislaus; Chuck; Private Perkins (death); un-named American Consul (death); Major MacDonough; Three Witches [Trouble; Terror; Mystery] (villains); Colonel Vooshu (villain); the Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis:

The Blackhawks head for India, being told that rioting has broken out, fueled by the Japanese, and when they arrive in Calcutta by air, they call on the American consul who asks desperately for their help. When he is killed, the Blackhawks continue the mission he told them about....namely, to find and rescue the Scottish Lost Battalion.

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.

[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

[Gootenspiltch the Clown] (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

Characters:

Gootenspilch (first appearance; villain; death?)

[The Nazis Who Rose From the Dead] (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; Adolf Hitler (villain); Dr. Schwein (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

Dunn has his one and only brush with a super-human when he encounters Nazi soldiers endowed with rapid healing abilities, powers activated by radio waves, and counteracted by destroying the control tower.

Keywords:

The Blue Tracer

The Pirate Prince of Plunder (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:

Henry Morgan (first appearance; villain)

[The Nazi Farm Invasion] (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:

Adolf Hitler (cameo; villain)

The Avalanche (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

[Homeward Bound--Almost] (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

P. T. Boat Raids Mulami (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

[Civil Air Patrol] (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