Blackhawk Vol 1 64

"The Flying Submarines!": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"The Flying Submarines!"
Cover
Blackhawk Vol 1 #64
May, 1953
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Reed Crandall
The Flying Submarines!
Pencilers	Reed Crandall
Inkers	Reed Crandall
Editors	Al Grenet
Chop Chop: "No Tickee, No Washee"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
The Legion of the Doomed!
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Dick Dillin
The Ghost of Blackhawk Island!
Pencilers	Bill Ward
Inkers	Bill Ward
Previous Issue	Blackhawk # 63
Next Issue	Blackhawk # 65

Die, you poor excuse for a depraved madman! You'll rule over the Legion of the Doomed no longer!

— Blackhawk

Blackhawk #64 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1953.

Appearing in "The Flying Submarines!"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Massacar (First appearance) (Apparent Death) (see Notes)
  • his pirate crew

Other Characters:

• enslaved merchant crewmen

Locations:

• Pacific Ocean
  • Blackhawk Island
  • Lost Island of Atlantis, under a glassoid dome, on the bottom of the ocean
    • This mostly-intact, long-uninhabited, sub-sea city was recently discovered and taken over by pirates.

Vehicles:

• Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
• Flying Submarines (three) (two destroyed, one captured)
  

Synopsis for Chop Chop: "No Tickee, No Washee"

Chop Chop's old friend Ching Lu's laundry is about to go out of business so Chop Chop helps him out. By bad luck they get embroiled in a fleeing robber's attempt to hide some loot in his coat, but by bravery and cunning plus some good luck, Chop Chop subdues the crook and turns him in. The $500 reward on the wanted crook helps Ching Lu get his laundry shop going again.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "No Tickee, No Washee"

Featured Characters:

• Chop Chop

Antagonists:

• robber

Other Characters:

• Ching Lu (First appearance)
• cops

Locations:

• a large U.S. city
  

Appearing in "The Legion of the Doomed!"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Zoltan Korvas (Dies)
• Desira

Other Characters:

• dozens of jet pilots

Locations:

• Cannes, France
• Sphynx Island, uncharted, south of Spain

Vehicles:

• Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
• Korvas's black and red fighter jets
  

Appearing in "The Ghost of Blackhawk Island!"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Peter Vestey, International Agent, as the Ghost
• Red bomber crew
• Red paratroopers (all die)

Locations:

• Blackhawk Island

Vehicles:

• Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
• Red four-engine bomber (damaged)

Notes

• The Flying Submarines!:
  • Massacar is preying on "U.N." ships, carrying war supplies to embattled areas. "United World" is not mentioned.
  • Massacar gets hit in the head with a metal ornament thrown by Blackhawk, and falls into the ocean from the deck of his ship, and is not seen to re-surface. A villain named Massacar will appear, in Blackhawk #86, but is a different person.
  • Blackhawk gets shot down, for the 18th time, and crashes, for the 16th time.
  • On page 7, panels 5 and 6, in the top of a lighthouse, Blackhawk re-invents the Bat-Signal, and summons the Blackhawks.
  • Hendrickson claims to have a 46-inch waistline. This is not reflected in the art.
  • It is implied but not stated that the Flying Submarines are Atlantean technology. Only three are seen in the story, and two are destroyed, with the third being captured by the Blackhawks.
  • At this story's end, the location of Atlantis is known to Blackhawk and his pals, also to surviving pirate/slaver crewmen, and also to rescued slave laborers. Apparently everybody kept quiet about it, because it is never mentioned again.
• The Legion of the Doomed!:
  • Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious, with a pistol butt. This is at least his fifty-seventh concussion.
  • He also survives yet another plane crash, his seventeenth. Over the course of his long combat career, Blackhawk survived at least twenty-one aircraft crashes. Six of these crashes were deliberate.
  • Andre gets head-konked unconscious, with a blackjack. This is at least his thirteenth concussion.
  • Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
• The Ghost of Blackhawk Island!:
  • The Reds definitely know where Blackhawk Island is.
  • Chop Chop definitely can fly a Lockheed F-90.
• Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was: "Top Secret" (text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series
• Images from Blackhawk Vol 1 64

Links and References

• Read the complete issue at the Digital Comic Museum

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