Blackhawk Vol 1 273

"No Information Available at Press Time!": Circa 1940-Sept, six Blackhawks arrived in Mechuoko province China, which was utterly flattened, and burned, by the Japanese version of a Merson mechanized worm, tricked out to resemble a traditional Chinese dragon, with flame-throwers mounted at

"No Information Available at Press Time!"
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Blackhawk Vol 1 #273
November, 1984
Executive Editor	Dick Giordano
Cover Artists	Gil Kane
No Information Available at Press Time!
Writers	Mark Evanier
Pencilers	Dan Spiegle
Inkers	Dan Spiegle
Colorists	Jerry Serpe
Letterers	Carrie Spiegle
Editors	Mark Evanier
Detached Service Diary
Writers	Mark Evanier
Pencilers	Mike Sekowsky
Inkers	Richard Howell
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That's all, folks!

— Chuck Wilson

Blackhawk #273 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1984.

Synopsis for "No Information Available at Press Time!"

Circa 1940-Sept, six Blackhawks arrived in Mechuoko province China, which was utterly flattened, and burned, by the Japanese version of a Merson mechanized worm, tricked out to resemble a traditional Chinese dragon, with flame-throwers mounted at the prow. The team flew from Blackhawk Island via India to China, in one day, then were ready to fight right away. Also snoopy reporter Ginny Mueller showed up, and followed the team around, taking notes, which she ended up being unable to publish.

Wu Cheng's girlfriend had radio-called the team, after which, Chop Chop got captured by the Japanese, then had escaped, and finally he single-handedly suckered the drivers of the articulated mechanized dragon to crash it into an ammo shed, causing a very large explosion which disabled the mechanism. Then Chop Chop rejoined the team and returned to the European Theater. End of series.

Appearing in "No Information Available at Press Time!"

Featured Characters:

• Blackhawk Squadron
  • Andre Blanc-Dumont
  • Blackhawk
  • Chuck Wilson
  • Hans Hendrickson
  • Olaf Bjornson
  • Stanislaus Drozdowski
  • Chop-Chop (Joins team)

Supporting Characters:

• Mali, Wu Cheng's girlfriend

Antagonists:

• Japanese military
  • General Yoja

Other Characters:

• Virginia Mueller, war correspondant
• her editor, at New Liberty magazine

Locations:

• Earth-One
• New York City
  • offices of New Liberty magazine
• China, Mechuoko province

Items:

Vehicles:

• "The Dragon", a Japanese version of a Merson mechanized worm
• Grumman XF5F Skyrockets
  

Synopsis for "Detached Service Diary"

Wu Cheng's D.S.Diary describes his arrival in China, and the destruction of his (parked, empty) plane by a Japanese aircraft, his brief career as a nonuniformed guerrilla fighter, and his failed attempt to prevent the construction of "The Dragon."

Appearing in "Detached Service Diary"

Featured Characters:

• • Chop-Chop

Supporting Characters:

• Li
• village elder

Antagonists:

• Japanese military
  • Commander Menda

Other Characters:

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Locations:

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Items:

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Vehicles:

• Grumman XF5F Skyrocket
• Nakajima fighter

Notes

• The Detached Service Diary story is set in the middle (pp. 11 ~ 16) of the main story (23 pages total).
• This was the last issue of this run of Blackhawk.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series