Blackhawk #251 [Direct]
(October 1982)

DC, 1957 Series
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Volume
31
Price
0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
On-sale Date
1982-06-08
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Len Wein (editor); Carl Gafford (assistant editor); Dick Giordano (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:

They're Back-The Greatest Fighting Team of All! (Table of Contents)

Blackhawk / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dave Cockrum (signed)
Inks
Dave Cockrum (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino; Tom Orzechowski (logo design, see notes)
Job Number
C-991
Genre
adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero

Indexer Notes

Logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos B #46: BLACKHAWK on 2 May 2021. Orzechowski's logo is a slight revamp of the Al Grenet logo that first appeared in Blackhawk (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #33 (October 1950).

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A Time to Fight... a Time to Die! (Table of Contents: 1)

Blackhawk / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier
Pencils
Dan Spiegle
Inks
Dan Spiegle
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Carrie McCarthy
Job Number
J-8414
Genre
adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
Synopsis
Blackhawks origin retold.

Indexer Notes

Feature is revived but set again in World War II with the group in their original costumes.

[Blackhawk History] (Table of Contents: 2)

Blackhawk Bylines / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1114

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

DC Coming Comics / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. They're Back-The Greatest Fighting Team of All!
    Blackhawk
  2. 1. A Time to Fight... a Time to Die!
    Blackhawk
  3. 2. [Blackhawk History]
    Blackhawk Bylines
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    DC Coming Comics
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