Blackhawk Vol 1 68

"The Assassin Squad": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"The Assassin Squad"
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Blackhawk Vol 1 #68
September, 1953
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
The Assassin Squad
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Editors	Al Grenet
Chop Chop: "The Baker"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
Killers of the Kremlin
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
A World-Wide Manhunt
Writers	Dick Wood
Pencilers	Irving Steinberg
Inkers	Irving Steinberg
Previous Issue	Blackhawk # 67
Next Issue	Blackhawk # 69

Let's aviate, men!

— Blackhawk

Blackhawk #68 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1953.

Appearing in "The Assassin Squad"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Kaldek, Secretary of War, of Bolia (Dies)
  • Assassin Squad

Other Characters:

• President Vallin, of Bolia
  • his cabinet (assassinated)

Locations:

• Europe
  • Bolia, a democracy
• Blackhawk Island

Items:

• giant vacuum tube

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors
  

Synopsis for Chop Chop: "The Baker"

Chop Chop tries to work in a bakery but he is terrible at baking.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "The Baker"

Featured Characters:

• Chop Chop

Antagonists:

• irate bake shop owner
  

Appearing in "Killers of the Kremlin"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Danya
  • Red commando squad: Timko, Gregov, others (some killed, some captured)
  • Red submarine crew (captured alive)

Other Characters:

• President Osla, of Ruania

Locations:

• Ruania
  • Shipyards

Vehicles:

• S.S. Defender, Ruanian destroyer (damaged)
• United World Freedom Fleet (Mentioned only)
• "Thanis", Danya's yacht, & attached gigantic submarine
  • Sub has conventional torpedoes and "electric cannon," which silently shoots 10-inch artillery shells.
    

Appearing in "A World-Wide Manhunt"

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

Antagonists:

• Moscow's Red Network
  • Valish, KGB
  • Valish's partner, KGB
  • Russian cop
  • Russian fake Blackhawk team
  • Brazilian Red Underground

Other Characters:

• Commissar Anton Renick, Director of Soviet Research (defects, dies)
• Russian Underground members, four or more

Locations:

• Russia
  • open field, 15 miles from Moscow
  • Rushlo Flour Mill, outside Moscow
  • Ural Mountains
    • Renick's Science Base
• Black Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• Atlantic Ocean
• Brazil
  • abandoned Portuguese fort in a remote mountain pass

Items:

• Blackhawk's Radioactivated Metal Disc
  • (emits a super high frequency signal, detectable by special radar in the Blackhawk jets)
• Stalin's Slave Enforcer (Destroyed)
  • (space station hovering over Earth, to rain death on non-Soviet nations)

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors
• Russian Underground Submarine
• Red Navy Destroyer (Destroyed)

Notes

• Assassin Squad
  • For the second time in their careers, the Blackhawk aviators accept the roles of Cabinet Ministers, in a small democratic nation. Blackhawk becomes Vice President, thus becomes President when President Vallin is kidnapped. Other cabinet positions are not specified.
• This issue's Chop Chop story is reprinted in Blackhawk #77.
• Killers of the Kremlin
  • Chop Chop catches a thrown bomb, outfielder style, and lobs it back to its throwers just before it explodes.
  • Danya's submarine crew was captured alive.
  • Per page 6, panel 3, Andre, Chuck, Olaf, and Stanislaus all get head-konked unconscious in the same melee. This is Andre's fifteenth concussion, Chuck's seventh, Olaf's ninth, and Stan's sixth concussion. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
• World-Wide Manhunt
  • The Blackhawks attack and sink a conventional Soviet warship, and a super-weaponized Soviet space station. These seem like acts of war, but World War III does not break out.
• Also appearing in this issue of Blackhawk was:
  • "Blackhawk's Challenge" (text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series

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