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| Inker1 | - John Stewart
- Chuck Cuidera
- Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Tom Hickey
- Klaus Nordling
- Bud Ernest
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| Recommended | - * Blackhawk (Volume 1)
* Blackhawk (Volume 2)
* Blackhawk (Volume 3)
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| Inker1 | - John Stewart
- Chuck Cuidera
- Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Tom Hickey
- Klaus Nordling
- Bud Ernest
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| Penciler1 | - John Stewart
- Chuck Cuidera
- Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Tom Hickey
- Klaus Nordling
- Bud Ernest
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| StoryTitle | - "Death Patrol"
- "Loops and Banks"
- "Miss America"
- "Secret War News"
- "Shot and Shell"
- "The Blue Tracer"
- "Yankee Eagle"
- "Desert Death"
- “Barracuda”
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| Penciler1 | - John Stewart
- Chuck Cuidera
- Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Tom Hickey
- Klaus Nordling
- Bud Ernest
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- Featured Characters:
* Sam Shot
* Slim Shell
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- Featured Characters:
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* Boomerang Jones
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* Nada
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* Balkans
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- Featured Characters:
* Death Patrol
:*Butch O'Keefe
:*Del Van Dyne
:*Gramps
:*Hank
:*Chief Chuck-a-lug
:*Zazzy
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- Featured Characters:
* First Lieutenant Skiff Wilkins
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* HMS Barracuda
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* HMS Hood
*HMS Ark Royal
*HMS Victorious
*Polish destroyer Piorun
*German battleship Bismarck
- Featured Characters:
* Loops McCann
* Banks Barrows
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* Martin PBM Mariner
- Featured Characters:
* Jerry Noble
Supporting Characters:
* Sam the eagle
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| Links | - * Military Comics series index at Comicbookdb.com
* Military Comics series index at the Grand Comics Database
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| Vehicle | - Grumman XF5F Skyrocket
- Blue Tracer
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| Synopsis | - Shot and Shell destroy a German torpedo boat while escaping from Greece.
- The Death Patrol is grounded when there is no enemy action. Bored, they sneak out individually and each foils a different element of an enemy invasion of England. Butch crashes his plane into an enemy plane and does not make it back.
- "Banks" Barrows and "Loops" McCann fly a Martin PBM Mariner to bomb a U-Boat that is attacking a merchant vessel carrying a US ambassador to an important meeting.
- Joan Dale quits the newspaper and joins the FBI. She investigates a gang of saboteurs posing as a band that uses music to send code messages and turns into Miss America to finish them off.
- Commanded by First Lieutenant Skiff Wilkins, Royal Navy, a descendant of Sir Francis Drake, the submarine HMS Barracuda earns such a remarkable record by playing havoc with the Nazi fleet that she wins the right to the royal ensign.
- Enemy agents use an ape to capture two Navy midshipman and Jerry Noble when he tries to stop them. The agents plan to take the middies places for some sabotage. Jerry and the middies escape and Jerry sends Sam the Eagle to drop grenades on the bad guys boat.
- The story opens with a hooded figure kidnapping a woman from an Arab compound. The kidnapper is Blackhawk and the woman is Edda, a beautiful blonde Nazi agent. She knows the secret plan the Nazis have devised to destroy the Suez Canal, the "life-line of the democracies". The other Nazi agents set out to find her. Meanwhile, back at the Blackhawks' hideout in an Egyptian oasis, Edda is a prisoner but casually asks Zeg to bring her a hairdresser so she can maintain her reputation as the most beautiful spy in Africa. Incredibly, Zeg does as she asks . Of course, the hairdresser is another agent and takes Edda's orders to the Nazi command. They raid the hideout and capture the Blackhawks. When the dwarfish Nazi leader attempts to shoot Blackhawk, Edda shoots him first, saying the "Black Tigress" will want Blackhawk alive. At the Nazi headquarters, there is much talk of the Black Tigress, apparently a ruthless and powerful leader of the whole operation. Blackhawk is taken to her. Instead of the hag he expects, she is a shapely blonde in a belly dancer's outfit with a veil covering her face. She professes her love for him, saying she knew they were meant to be together the first time they met. This seems like a pretty obvious clue, but Blackhawk is oblivious and claims they have never met. The Black Tigress is not a woman to be scorned. She orders him to be hung upside down by his heals and whipped. The other Blackhawks lanquish in their cell, helpless to escape, except for Chop Chop, who has been drafted to cook for the bad guys. Somehow he causes an explosion with a coffee pot that releases the rest of the team. They rescue Blackhawk and they all make their way to their planes. The Germans have already taken off in their planes to bomb a freighter loaded with ammunition in the Suez Canal. The theory is that the explosion will destroy the canal. There is a big dogfight that Blackhawk realizes is a diversion from the real attack. He flies off to find the real bomber, the Black Tigress, of course. They battle and both planes crash. The Black Tigress dies in Blackhawk's arms, her mask slipping off to reveal she is actually Edda.
- In the Balkans, the Blue Tracer is helping the partisans fight the Nazis. Beautiful but deadly Nazi agent Nada disguises herself as a peasant woman and leads Bill and Boomerang into a trap. With the help of POWs, they overcome their captors and escape. Story ends with the “secret plans” of the Blue Tracer.
- Secret War News – Bismarck Sunk. Dramatization of the sinking of HMS Hood by the German pocket battleship Bismarck, and then the subsequent sinking of the Bismarck by torpedo planes from the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
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| Notes | - * This issue also included the first map of Blackhawk Island.
* Desert Death is reprinted in .
* Bob Powell is also credited as Bud Ernest in this issue.
* Includes a one-page feature titled "Sabotage" by Tex Blaisdell and Lake French.
* Includes a two-page text story by Tex Blaisdell titled "No Greater Love", about a eighteen year old British girl, Veronica Catherine Ives, a volunteer ambulance driver who saved an infant after her ambulance was hit by a bomb .
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