Blackhawk Vol 1 52

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"The Incredible Invasion"
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Blackhawk Vol 1 #52
May, 1952
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Reed Crandall
The Incredible Invasion
Pencilers	Reed Crandall
Inkers	Reed Crandall
Editors	Al Grenet
Chop Chop: "Rented Camel"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
Traitor In the Ranks
Editors	Al Grenet
Blood on the Sphinx
Writers	William Woolfolk
Previous Issue	Blackhawk # 51
Next Issue	Blackhawk # 53

I know! Don't tell me! The rest of us stay here and tie these palookas into neat bundles of five!

— Chuck Wilson

Blackhawk #52 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1952.

Appearing in "The Incredible Invasion"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Madame Blanche, famed woman commentator (arrested)
• General Volk (Dies)
  • Red Army, one division, infantry & tanks (electrocuted)

Other Characters:

• President of small European Nation

Locations:

• Small European Nation

Vehicles:

• Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Bs
• Presidential pen touring car
  

Appearing in Chop Chop: "Rented Camel"

Featured Characters:

• Chop Chop

Animals:

• rented camel
• rented ox

Other Characters:

• Ali Bali, Camel Renter

Locations:

• Egypt
  

Appearing in "Traitor In the Ranks"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Colonel Lovik (Dies)
  • Silvio, as "Antonio Riva" (Dies)
  • Gino
  • more thugs
  • Sardonian military
• Georges Pavli, President of Republic of Sardona

Other Characters:

• Antonio Riva, new Blackhawk volunteer (Dies)

Locations:

• Blackhawk Island
• Italy
• Sardona
  • Sardonian Capitol Building (President's office on 5th floor)

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Bs
  

Appearing in "Blood on the Sphinx"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Madame Hufein
  • Pharoah-Men

Other Characters:

• Hufein, Prime Minister of Hunpar (Dies)
• Salar, Deputy Prime Minister
• Parliament of Hunpar (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Giza, Egypt
  • Great Sphinx of Giza
• Hunpar, Near-Eastern City, independent of Egypt, located one night's march away from Giza.

Notes

• In The Incredible Invasion Blackhawk is head-konked with a lead pipe but does not black out. This is his fiftieth concussion.
• In Blood on the Sphinx, Hendrickson gets some bullet wounds from a submachine gun, and Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious with a rifle stock. This is his fifty-first concussion. Hendrickson is hospitalized for several weeks after this.
• The first story in the next issue is also set in Egypt. In that story Hendrickson is fully back in action.
• This issue's Chop Chop story is reprinted in Blackhawk #87.
• Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was: "The Sky Bandit" (non-Blackhawk text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series
• Images from Blackhawk Vol 1 52

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