Military Comics #17

(March 1943)

The Golden Bell of Soong-Toy! (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; Henrickson; Andre; Chuck; Olaf; Stanislaus; The Golden Bell [Soong Toy aka Yoshi Wari] (introduction, death); Oko; the Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis:

A mysterious Japanese girl aides and abets the Blackhawks, alerting them that six Japanese warlords are meeting together at the House of Butterfly to discuss the best way to trap and kill the Blackhawks.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Chuck is revealed as a TEXAN! 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

The Prisoners of the Black Castle (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:

Gen. Von Drac (first appearance; villain; death)

Carlotta Carloada (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:

Countess De Virt (first appearance; villain); Cecil (first appearance)

[Morons On Madagascar] (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

[First Mission] (Table of Contents)

P.T. Boat / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Andre LeBlanc

Inks:

Andre LeBlanc

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; navy

Characters:

Ens. Paul Harvey (first appearance); Ens. Peter Tobias (first appearance)

[Anti-Submarine 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

The Lamb Is a Lion (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

[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

Wake Island Still Holds (Table of Contents)

Secret War News / comic story / 6 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 Wake Island battle

[The Trouble With Davy Jones] (Table of Contents)

Sailor Danny / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Art Gates

Pencils:

Art Gates

Inks:

Art Gates

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Sailor Danny (first appearance); Davy Jones (first appearance)