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"The Tyrant's Return": English freighters and American Naval bases are attacked by Nazi warships and airplanes. During his patrol, Hendrickson is shot down on a remote island where he discovers Adolf Hitler alive! Hendrickson steps in and knocks him out with one punch, then quickly realizes that

Quote1 Naturlich! I must use a different voice! Breck was Hitler's most trusted friend. If I speak as I normally do, it vill giff der show away! Come! We go back to der base! Quote2
Hendrickson, posing as Von Henkle, posing as Adolf Hitler

Blackhawk #115 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1957.

Synopsis for "The Tyrant's Return"

English freighters and American Naval bases are attacked by Nazi warships and airplanes. During his patrol, Hendrickson is shot down on a remote island where he discovers Adolf Hitler alive! Hendrickson steps in and knocks him out with one punch, then quickly realizes that this is an impostor. He steals this guy's toupe and fake mustache, disguises himself as the Hitler impersonator, and takes command of the Nazi renegades. But Hendrickson trips and hits his head, and gets amnesia, and soon believes himself to be the real Von Henkle, still impersonating Hitler. The Blackhawks are captured and he imprisons them, while carrying out the genuine impersonator's original scheme.

These isolated Nazi outcasts are actually fakes, ordinary criminals in gray uniforms, spreading newsworthy terror for its own sake, in order to lure a genuine Nazi fugitive war criminal out of hiding. This fugitive, Gustave Breck, has finally contacted this group, and is on his way to link up with them, and Breck supposedly has knowledge of the whereabouts of twenty-five million dollars worth of Nazi gold.

This whole scheme unravels when the real Hitler impersonator shows up, whacks the fake impersonator unconscious, and yells out what little he knows about the situation. When Hendrickson regains consciousness his real personality asserts itself, he frees the Blackhawks, they get airborne, and quickly defeat the combined grouping of genuine and fake Nazis, capturing most of them alive.

Appearing in "The Tyrant's Return"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Von Henkle, Hitler Impersonator, fake Nazi
    • his adjutant (wears a monocle), fake Nazi
    • his troops and crewmen, fake Nazis
  • Gustave Breck, fugitive war criminal, genuine Nazi
    • his SS security detail, genuine Nazis

Locations:

Items:

  • 25 million dollars in gold (Mentioned only)

Vehicles:

  • Cargo Plane (Destroyed)
  • Freight Ship (Destroyed)
  • Nazi surface warship
  • Nazi fighter-bomber
  • Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs


Synopsis for "Blackie Goes Wild"

Blackie, the team's mascot, starts to act strangely, then joins a flock of migrating hawks. The hawk's migration pattern leads the team to San Durango where they become embroiled in a bitter civil war between the government and a combination of renegade troops and bandits, commanded by the treacherous Colonel Gomez. Assisted by Blackie and several dozen wild hawks, the Blackhawks defeat a numerically superior rebel force.

Appearing in "Blackie Goes Wild"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Colonel Gomez (defeated and presumably arrested)
    • his troops (many arrested)
    • their bandit allies (many arrested)

Other Characters:

  • President of San Durango
  • Professor Costa, Ornithologist

Locations:

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "The Creature of Blackhawk Island"

While testing their sound-guider, an ultrasonic homing beacon for Blackie, the Hawks confront a giant hand that seems to appear from nowhere. It can crawl or hover, can lift or smash large heavy objects and structures, and seems to act with a purpose. The Blackhawks try different tactics and weapons to try to destroy or confine the hand, but fail. Blackhawk deduces that the giant hand is from another dimension, and that their high-frequency guider has somehow broken a dimensional barrier. If the hand can gain control of the sound-guider, then, it may be able to draw its entire body into our world. To prevent this, they fool the giant hand into grabbing a wooden mock-up of the machine, and before it can realize its mistake, they destroy the real sound-guider.

Appearing in "The Creature of Blackhawk Island"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • extradimensional giant green hand

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • two Blackhawk armored cars (one destroyed)
  • one Blackhawk tank (Destroyed)
  • Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
  • Blackhawk Hawksub

Concepts:

Notes

  • Tyrant's Return
    • Hendrickson is shot down, and crashes, and then hits his head hard enough to get amnesia, and then gets head-hit hard enough to knock him out again. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
  • Creature of Blackhawk Island
    • Blackhawk Island Arsenal includes at least two armored cars and one tank. Also the Hawksub has its own submarine pen.
    • Captured super trophies in the Blackhawk Museum now include the giant manacles that were forged to capture the Giant-Maker. We've never seen the Giant Maker in any Blackhawk story, but he was mentioned last issue.
    • There was a recent Blackhawk villain named Zaroc, in Blackhawk #110, who created a formula for growing to gigantic size. He never called himself the "Giant-Maker," or wore any giant manacles, and he died at the end of his only appearance. Zaroc's formula was known to Blackhawk, who had deduced its recipe and successfully recreated it.
    • None of this seems very likely to be mentioned again.
  • Also appearing in this issue of Blackhawk were:



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