This incident took place in 1954! We were captured by scientists posing as indestructible metal-men from outer space! They tried to enter a secret atomic plant to steal priceless fissionable materials! 
- — Blackhawk in 1958
Blackhawk #122 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1958.
Synopsis for "The Movie that Backfired"
Crooks make lethal changes to the stunts in a movie in which the Blackhawks are recreating their feats. An international shipping magnate, secretly a global smuggler, is behind the series of murder attempts, and he's arrested.
Appearing in "The Movie that Backfired"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Carlo Vesalius, shipping magnate, global smuggler
Other Characters:
- Verba, movie producer
Locations:
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs (three destroyed)
- Vesalius' Private Yacht
- three Flying Panther jet fighter
Synopsis for "The Sky Kites"
Criminal mastermind Raven uses jet-propelled kites to pull off super crimes.
Appearing in "The Sky Kites"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Sky Raven
- his gang
Locations:
- Blackhawks' Mainland Barracks
Vehicles:
- six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
- S.S. Evening Star (boarded and robbed)
- twelve Sky Kites
- USAF bomber
- carrying a Z-21 Rocket Plane
- carrying a Z-21 Rocket Plane
Synopsis for "The Day the Blackhawks Died"
An old enemy of the Blackhawks, Cobra, joins up with Marlin, a lieutenant of Killer Shark, to defeat the Blackhawks. They search out the top secret location of Blackhawk Island, which they stealthily invade, and blow up Blackhawk Island's barracks, wiping out the Blackhawks! They then take over the base, bringing their international criminal friends and their gangs and their elaborate crime equipment to Blackhawk Island, their new global crime base. This turns out to be an elaborate hoax staged by the Blackhawks to lure a large number of criminals to one spot, and bust them.
Appearing in "The Day the Blackhawks Died"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Cobra (secretly Blackhawk)
- crime bosses: Madden, others
- Marlin, formerly Killer Shark's right-hand man
- his submarine crew
- his crime boss pals
Locations:
- City area
- deserted seaside resort
- Blackhawk City Barracks Prison
- City Airport
- Marlin's shack on a remote hillside
- Ocean
- fake Blackhawk Island
Items:
- Cobra's device for tracking Blackhawk jets
Vehicles:
- Marlin's submarine
- Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
Notes
- Movie that Backfired
- The Blackhawks movie recreates incidents from WWII and 1954, in Earth-One history, also a sea-serpent incident, a Roman slave-galley incident, and a battle against the "Flying Panthers." These events were not depicted in earlier issues of Blackhawk, most of which were set in another universe. That team did, however, once encounter some fake space aliens.[1]
- Three more F-90 interceptors are destroyed in this story.
- The film project takes several weeks to unfold.
- Sky Kites
- Blackhawk gets shot down. His plane is not remote-controlled away to a safe landing.
- Day the Blackhawks Died
- This story's main villain, the Cobra, is yet another "return" of a villain from an earlier adventure, that didn't actually appear in either a Quality or DC comic. The facially-deformed "Cobra" that everybody knows, in this story, did have an earlier encounter with the Blackhawks, but he survived it. And in any case, the Cobra in this story is an impersonator.
- The King Cobra in the Quality Universe, who clashed with the Blackhawks twice (in Blackhawk #58 and Blackhawk #80), and was gruesomely killed both times.
- Blackhawk Island's location is now, once again, a little-known secret. Cobra's (fake) tracking technology is a big deal to the crimesters that he pitches it to.
- Also appearing in this issue of Blackhawk were:
- full-page ad for twenty other DC titles
- Radio Beams (1 page)
- Dexter (1 page) by Henry Boltinoff
- Hy Wire (1 page) by Henry Boltinoff
- Do You Know: What's Behind a Law?, (1 page, PSA/civics lesson, from National Social Welfare Assembly)
- "The Ordeal of Jonny Inge" (text story) about an F-86 pilot who must bail out over rugged mountains