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| Trivia | - * The character of Blackhawk and his Blackhawk Squadron proved to be one of the most enduring aviator adventure strips of all time. The team went through several permutations over the years, not all of which were considered favorable by readers.
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| Inker1 | - John Stewart
- Chuck Cuidera
- Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Bob Powell
- Henry Kiefer
- Ed Wexler
- Harry Campbell
- Klaus Nordling
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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
- Bob Powell
- Henry Kiefer
- Ed Wexler
- Harry Campbell
- Klaus Nordling
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| Writer1 | - Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Will Eisner
- Bob Powell
- Henry Kiefer
- Ed Wexler
- Klaus Nordling
- Dick Scopes
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| Penciler1 | - John Stewart
- Chuck Cuidera
- Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Bob Powell
- Henry Kiefer
- Ed Wexler
- Harry Campbell
- Klaus Nordling
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| Writer1 | - Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Will Eisner
- Bob Powell
- Henry Kiefer
- Ed Wexler
- Klaus Nordling
- Dick Scopes
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| StoryTitle | - "Enlisting the Hard Way"
- "Episode With a Goat"
- "Flying With the Red Dragon"
- "Gone With the Draft"
- "Origin of the Blue Tracer"
- "Origin of the Death Patrol"
- "Sink the Kaiser Adolf"
- "The Coming of the Yankee Eagle"
- "The Origin of Blackhawk"
- "The Origin of Miss America"
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| Penciler1 | - John Stewart
- Chuck Cuidera
- Fred Guardineer
- Jack Cole
- Bob Powell
- Henry Kiefer
- Ed Wexler
- Harry Campbell
- Klaus Nordling
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| Appearing | - Featured Characters:
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Supporting Characters:
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Adversaries:
* Mr. Grost
Other Characters:
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- Featured Characters:
* Jerry Noble
Supporting Characters:
* Sam the eagle
Adversaries:
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Other Characters:
* Senator Noble
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Vehicles:
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- Featured Characters:
* Captain Foghorn
Supporting Characters:
* Bob Wayne
* Dick Martin
* Freckles
- Featured Characters:
* Archie Atkins
Supporting Characters:
* Achmed
* Jack Bailey
Adversaries:
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Other Characters:
* Billy the goat
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Vehicles:
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- Featured Characters:
* Loops McCann
Supporting Characters:
* Banks Barrows
* General Cheng
Adversaries:
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Other Characters:
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- Featured Characters:
* Sam Shot
* Slim Shell
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- Featured Characters:
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Supporting Characters:
* Boomerang Jones
Adversaries:
* M'bujies
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Other Characters:
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- Featured Characters:
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Supporting Characters:
* Connie
* Jack
Adversaries:
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Other Characters:
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- Featured Characters:
* Death Patrol
:*Butch O'Keefe
:*Del van Dyne
:*Gramps
:*Hank
:*Peewee
:*Slick Ward
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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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| Synopsis | - Captain "Wild Bill" Dunn, an American engineer attached to a British Army unit in Ethiopia is the sole survivor of an ambush. He is found and cared for by a young Australian, Boomerang Jones, another sole survivor of the 25th ANZACs. Both units have been wiped out by a race of superbeings living in a nearby volcano. Dunn puts his engineering skills to work and, using parts from a junkyard full of wrecked military equipment, builds a vehicle with amazing capabilities, the Blue Tracer. He also puts together a super-hero costume and, with Boomerang as his sidekick, fights the evil enemy.
- Two wannabe fliers take their home-built airplane into an Army formation and do pretty well until the wings fall off. They parachute to the ground and just happen to land on some German agents, thus becoming heroes by accident. They do subdue the agents with some solid punches before the Army shows up to take over.
- An American sailing ship is outfitted as a disguised warship, a Q-Ship, to fight German naval forces in the North Atlantic and protect convoys.
- German sleeper agents take over an American battleship at sea and maroons the crew on a deserted island. Meanwhile, a rich playboy son of a senator hires a boat to follow his pet eagle out to sea. The eagle leads him to the stranded sailors and together they recapture the battleship.
- A young woman named Joan wonders about the good that could be done if one had the powers of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue comes to her in a dream and gives her powers. Soon, she is using her magical powers to fight enemy agents. Though still in civvies, she is already calling herself Miss America.
- Archie Atkins, desert scout, and two other British soldiers are saved from hostile Arab tribesman by a goat. They then join some Free French troops and go back to soundly defeat the tribesman. But when they get back to the British camp, the goat butts their commander and Archie and his friends are in trouble again.
- A US government agent recruits a team of convicts to help him fight the Nazis in Europe.
- Poland 1939 - Germany invades and Captain Von Tepp leads his famous "Butcher Squadron" against the greatly outnumbered Polish air force. The Poles fight valiantly but are shot from the sky until only one jet-black plane remains. Finally, the lone flyer is overwhelmed and crashes in a "pancake" landing. He runs for a nearby farmhouse but Von Tepp dives and drops a bomb on it. The flyer rushes in and calles for Jack and Connie, his brother and sister. Connie was killed instantly and Jack soon dies, too. Before he goes, Jack asks his brother to "get him for us, brother, make him pay." Months pass and a squadron led by the mysterious "Blackhawk" has the Nazis scared. And the one question Blackhawk always asks is where is Von Tepp. Von Tepp hears of this and lays a trap with a pretty American nurse as bait. Blackhawk and his men spring the trap and turn the tables on the Germans. They take them and the nurse to Blackhawk Island where Blackhawk and Von Tepp fight an aerial duel. Naturally, Blackhawk triumphs and gains vengeance for his brother and sister.
- Two American aviators in China go to work for General Cheng, better known as the Red Dragon. They fix up some fighter planes and soon are attacking formations of Japanese bombers. They dogfight with the bombers' escorts and get shot down but are lucky to crash land right next to a hospital where a pretty American nurse can care for their injuries.
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| Notes | - * This issue was reprinted in its entirety in Millennium Edition: Military Comics #1 and Flashback reprint series #5.
* "The Origin of Blackhawk" was reprinted in America at War: The Best of DC War Comics, and Secret Origins (Volume 1) #6.
* 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 Dick Scopes titled "Gone With the Draft", an obvious allusion to the 1936 novel and subsequent film Gone With the Wind.
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