Blackhawk #129 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1958.
Synopsis for "The Cavemen from 30,000 BC"
In a cave, under an unmarked Pacific island, a random time warp shifts the Blackhawks back to the era of cavemen. The island's climate is much cooler, and the island itself is much larger, and populated with mastodons and other beasts. They make friends with some cave men and fight with others, and they divert a mastodon stampede by triggering a natural gas explosion, but soon are forced to escape into the cave and back to 1958. Shortly after they emerge, the caves on the island are collapsed, by the gas explosion that they had set off, back in 30,000 BC.
Appearing in "The Cavemen from 30,000 BC"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- Cave Men, a large tribe of them
Animals:
- Sabre-tooth Tiger
- Mastodons
Locations:
- Pacific Ocean
- unmarked island, 1958
- much larger land area, 30,000 BC
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
Concepts
Synopsis for "The Last Blackhawk"
The Blackhawks' planes are found wrecked and they are presumed dead. Chop Chop, who had been left behind with a cold, thinks he's the last Blackhawk, until he gets a mysterious radio signal and goes to the rescue.
Appearing in "The Last Blackhawk"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Dragon Fly
Locations:
- Pacific Ocean
- Blackhawk Island
- Coral Islands
- Volcano Island, @ Longitude 36 degrees
Vehicles:
- seven Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs (shot down with a ray gun)
- Dragon Fly's "Dragon Fly" aircraft
- series of passenger airliners (captured)
- S.S. Tonia, freighter (Mentioned only)
Synopsis for "The Planet Venus vs. the Blackhawks"
While testing an experimental intercontinental passenger rocket, the Blackhawks are accidentally launched out of Earth orbit into Free Space. A Venusian spacecraft intercepts their ship, and tows it to the planet Venus. There the Blackhawks are placed under Universal Arrest, and put on trial for trespassing in space. They are convicted and imprisoned but ineptly guarded; Blackhawk uses his reserve parachute to drag a guard up to his cell, grabs his keys, and frees the gang. They abduct the judge who convicted them and commandeer a Venusian spacecraft. But escaping would confirm them as guilty, so to change the Venusian judge's mind about them, the team hesitates to take off.
Abruptly, just then, an emergency arises, as the dreaded Frequency Menace lurches up from the horizon. The Frequency Menace is a mass of unknown origin making unpredictable orbits around Venus, appearing as a swirling nebula of some kind, and emitting a continuous sonic attack that destroys everything and everybody in its path. The Blackhawks are unaffected by this, and the Venusians all flee to their shelters, so the team steals back their own rocket, and uses high frequency jet engine noise to counteract the Frequency Menace's attack, causing it to feed back onto itself, and exploded it. This persuades the Venusians to reverse their verdict, and they give the Blackhawks a free ride back to Earth.
Appearing in "The Planet Venus vs. the Blackhawks"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Frequency Menace
Other Characters:
- Judge Zixtra
- other Venusians
Locations:
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk Intercontinental Passenger Rocket (left on Venus)
- could fly from Blackhawk Island to Africa in 48 minutes.
- Venusian Spaceship XC-1
Notes
- Cavemen from 30,000 BC
- This is the Blackhawk team's second accidental encounter with Time Travel. The first was in Blackhawk #119.
- Cavemen have normal looking brown or black hair, with gray skin.
- Chop Chop is packing a visible side-arm; the other Blackhawks carry and use concealed handguns.
- Last Blackhawk
- Blackhawk Island has a movie theater.
- All seven Blackhawk Jets get destroyed in this story.
- Venus Versus Blackhawks
- The Blackhawks' experimental intercontinental passenger rocket looks a lot like a Redstone missile in Blackhawk markings.
- The Venusians are little pastel purple men with bendy antennas on their heads.
- Blackhawk decides that the team should keep their Venusian adventure a secret.
Trivia
- In the first story, Chop Chop pronounces it "Chop-Chop," with a hyphen, and in the second story, everybody including Blackhawk says it that way.
- Also appearing in this issue of Blackhawk were:
- Full-page ad for the current issue of Superman #124
- "Return of the Rogues" (1-page text story) about a plantation boss in Rangoon who chases down a favorite elephant that everyone thinks has gone rogue.