Blackhawk Vol 1 35

"The Strongest Man On Earth": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"The Strongest Man On Earth"
Cover
Blackhawk Vol 1 #35
December, 1950
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Bill Ward
The Strongest Man On Earth
Pencilers	Bill Ward
Inkers	Bill Ward
Editors	Al Grenet
The Black Dervish of Death
Pencilers	Reed Crandall
The Reapers of Starvation
Pencilers	Bill Quackenbush
Inkers	Bill Quackenbush
Chop Chop: "How To Be Fierce and Masterful"
Pencilers	Bill Ward
Inkers	Bill Ward
The Story of the Fiendish Brain
Pencilers	Bill Quackenbush
Inkers	Bill Quackenbush
Previous Issue	Blackhawk # 34
Next Issue	Blackhawk # 36

Let's go! A jehad means a holy war, Moslem against Christian! One of those could set the whole world aflame!

— Blackhawk

Blackhawk #35 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1950.

Appearing in "The Strongest Man On Earth"

Featured Characters:

• Blackhawk Squadron
  • Andre
  • Blackhawk
  • Chop Chop
  • Chuck
  • Hendrickson
  • Olaf
  • Stanislaus

Antagonists:

• Atlo
• Luva

Other Characters:

• Incala
  • Inca-descended Indians

Locations:

• Blackhawk Island
• South America
  • unnamed isolated Inca City
    • Temple of the Sun

Vehicles:

• one Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets (Flashback only)
• five Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
  

Appearing in "The Black Dervish of Death"

Featured Characters:

• Blackhawk Squadron
  • Andre
  • Blackhawk
  • Chop Chop
  • Chuck
  • Hendrickson
  • Olaf
  • Stanislaus

Antagonists:

• Black Dervish of Death
  • Otos, her foreign advisor
  • her legions of horsemen (many die)

Other Characters:

• Foreign Legion garrison (wiped out)
• Foreign Legion relief column, cavalry
• Sheik Bar Ibn, Blackhawk's old friend
• Sheik Hassam Sid, Bar Ibn's old friend
• Sheik Ibram, their other old friend

Animals:

• Black Fury, Sadi's horse, knows how to play dead
• her army's many horses and camels (many die)

Locations:

• French North Africa
  • El Shaitan Desert
    • Fort Abd-En-Krim
    • Fort Ad-Al-Kazar
    • Saudi Oasis

Vehicles:

• four Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
  

Appearing in "The Reapers of Starvation"

Featured Characters:

• Blackhawk Squadron
  • Andre
  • Blackhawk
  • Chop Chop
  • Chuck
  • Hendrickson
  • Olaf
  • Stanislaus

Antagonists:

• Hamar, aspiring dictator
• Lila, schemer
  • Ivar, stooge
  • Banda, stooge

Other Characters:

• Dan Potter, Food For Freedom Committee
• Sam Hollis, head of the Wheat Group

Locations:

• Europe
  • Rebolo, tiny war-ravaged nation
• American Midwest
• Blackhawk Island

Vehicles:

• seven Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
  

Synopsis for Chop Chop: "How To Be Fierce and Masterful"

Half a dozen shady characters mistakenly believe that Chop Chop is carrying around a pencil made of an extremely powerful and unstable explosive material, which turns out not to be a mistake after all. Chop Chop flings the deadly pencil out into the harbor, where it detonates spectacularly but harmlessly.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "How To Be Fierce and Masterful"

Featured Characters:

• Chop Chop

Antagonists:

• Dr. Dark
  • Percy, hench
• Mandrake Mayhem
  • his gang
• two muggers
• Tiger Lily, international spy

Other Characters:

• Desk Clerk

Locations:

• Bong Kong, wickedest city in the Orient
  • cheap hotel
  • secret laboratory, same street
• Manchuvia (Mentioned only)

Items:

• self-help book
  

Appearing in "The Story of the Fiendish Brain"

Featured Characters:

• Blackhawk Squadron
  • Andre
  • Blackhawk
  • Chop Chop
  • Chuck
  • Hendrickson
  • Olaf
  • Stanislaus

Antagonists:

• Ina, Vardan's step-daughter
• Valdo, Vardan's assistant
• Mulk

Other Characters:

• Dr. Vardan (Dies)
  • According to Blackhawk, Dr. Vardan is the world's greatest scientist.

Locations:

• Vardan's secret laboratory
  • in some old ruins on a small and seemingly abandoned island
• Vardan's supply drop, a little island off the North Coast
• Blackhawk Island

Items:

• microfilms of all of the books in the U.S. Library of Congress
• Vardan's monstrous electronic Brain (Destroyed)
  • "The world isn't ready for a tool so easily dominated by evil! And as we know, it wasn't too accurate anyhow!"

Vehicles:

• five Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs

Notes

• Strongest Man on Earth
  • The Inca city is located in a hidden valley, amid dense jungle, and beside steep mountains, and has got at least two Meso-American style step pyramids.
  • In the flashback, which took place "last year," Blackhawk's aircraft was a Grumman XF5F Skyrocket. Sometimes Blackhawk is confusing.
  • At the end of the story, Blackhawk intends to turn over the Inca helium mine to the "United Nations". Later stories will call this entity the "United Democracies" and later the "United World".
  • Either way, industrial development will soon be taking place in this formerly isolated Inca enclave.
• Dervish of Death
  • At their base, the Blackhawks maintain an enormous card index of the world's outposts.
  • Blackhawk still packs a concealed revolver.
• Reapers of Starvation
  • Blackhawk carries a portable test laboratory with him, in his fighter jet.
• Fiendish Brain
  • Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious, with a club. This is at least his forty-second blunt instrument head trauma. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
• Also appearing in this issue of Blackhawk was:
  • "Evil Challenge" (non-Blackhawk uncredited text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series
• Images from Blackhawk Vol 1 35

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