- Script
- Joe Millard
- Pencils
- Dick Dillin
- Inks
- Chuck Cuidera
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ach du lieber...! Olaf! You... You are der phantom saboteur who is wrecking der plants!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Colonel Nichevo (villain, introduction); Dr. Kurov (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- The Blackhawks raid a Russian spy house and a fight ensues. Amid the chaos, Russian Colonel Nichevo and some men take Olaf away into the Soviet Union. There, he is brainwashed by Dr. Kurov into becoming a saboteur and spy for the reds.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Communists; mind control; sabotage; uncharacteristic behavior
Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"Whatever tricks the reds may try...We match their cunning as we fly...We're Blackhawks!"
- Script
- Joe Millard
- Pencils
- Sam Citron
- Inks
- Sam Citron
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
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- The little Sopwith Camel fighter of World War I was the greatest killer-plane of all time!
- Genre
- adventure; aviation; military; war
- Characters
- Lt. S.D. Culley
- Synopsis
- The story of a World War I battle between British Lt. S.D. Culley and his Sopwith Camel fighter plane against a great German zeppelin.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- heroics; Sopwith Camel; World War I; zeppelin
Credits for this story by Martin O'Hearn.
- Script
- Joe Millard
- Pencils
- Dick Dillin
- Inks
- Chuck Cuidera
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Moloch the Destroyer was the cruelest of ancient gods! But even more savage was its revival in the hands of a modern demon... General Molok!
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- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk (Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Tavis; General Molok (villain, introduction); Moloch the Destroyer (ancient god)
- Synopsis
- Tavis, a defense contractor to the nations of the free world, demonstrates a new “ducted-fan aircraft” (an individual flying platform) to Blackhawk and his men. Ushering them aboard a larger version of the craft that seats all seven Blackhawks, Tavis (from a safe vantage point) activates a remote control that spirits them off to an unnamed Communist nation. There, the waiting General Molok, a dictator and would-be filmmaker, forces the Blackhawks to perform in a propaganda film - with deadly consequences for the Magnificent Seven.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- ancient god; Communists; ducted-fan aircraft (flying platform); movie; propaganda; statue
Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"We've met the enemy's snare... We've tripped the trap and there... We nailed the wall of freedom tight... We're Blackhawks!"
Unlike the "generic looking" Communist military official on the issue's cover, General Molok looks more like a "communist military-garbed" version of famed film director Alfred Hitchcock. ...Coincidence?
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- ?
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- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One after another the Blackhawks crept silently from the jungle and knelt to stare down at the weird scene below.
- Genre
- adventure; jungle; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Durie; Durie's men; Oglutes (head-hunters)
- Synopsis
- The Blackhawks close in on the jungle hideout of wanted criminal Durie, only to find it defended by a squad of armed men... and the Oglutes, "...the last, and worst, of the untamed head-hunters".
- Reprints
- Keywords
- head-hunters; jungle setting
- Script
- Joe Millard
- Pencils
- Dick Dillin
- Inks
- Chuck Cuidera
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yumping Yeepers! Doze dizzy yerks ban shooting real cannon balls!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Governor Drage; Mayor Luro; Captain Morgg (villain, introduction); inhabitants of Hermoso Island; Morgg's pirate crew
- Synopsis
- 250 years before, the infamous pirate, Morgan, attempted to land on an island to bury his war booty, but was driven away. Now, to commemorate 250 years of freedom, the islanders of Hermoso invite the Blackhawks to the celebration. However, a real, evil pirate of sorts named Morgg intervenes and stages a real invasion.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- celebration; Hermoso (island); invasion; pirate ship; pirates; sea or island setting
Plot-wise, this story bears a strong resemblance to the three-part Mickey Mouse serial "The Pirates of Tabasco Bay" by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry, from WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES (Dell, 1940 series) #191-193 (August thru October 1956) and reprinted in DISNEY MASTERS (Fantagraphics, 2018 series) #7 "Mickey Mouse: The Pirates of Tabasco Bay" (2019) [https://www.comics.org/issue/1936431/#3392797], where Black Pete's real pirates take the place of mock pirates scheduled to perform at a "Pirate Days Festival" concocted by Mickey Mouse to drum up tourism for a faded waterfront resort town. These stories would have appeared just months apart.
Story-ending Blackhawks' flying song:
"When ancient evils come by sea... We're still alert to keep men free... We're Blackhawks!"