Blackhawk Vol 1 78

"The Killer Vulture": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"The Killer Vulture"
Cover
Blackhawk Vol 1 #78
July, 1954
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Dick Dillin Chuck Cuidera
The Killer Vulture
Writers	Dick Wood
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Editors	Al Grenet
Chop Chop: "...and the Veiled Princess"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
Stand-Ins For Death
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
The Phantom Raider
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Previous Issue	Blackhawk # 77
Next Issue	Blackhawk # 79

Vultures are characteristically greedy ... they stuff themselves so much on their victims that they can't fly for hours! That's what happened to YOU!

— Blackhawk

Blackhawk #78 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1954.

Appearing in "The Killer Vulture"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• The Vulture (Dies)
• Gorka
• ten platoons of mercenaries

Locations:

• The Netherlands
• Southern Italy
• Pyrenees
  • Vulture's Lair
• Granada, Spain

Items:

• world's biggest Uranium ore stock (stolen)
• Vulture's almanacs, weather maps, and disaster-locator machine

Vehicles:

• Vulture Plane, a supersonic rocket/helicopter troop-transport (wrecked)
• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C long-range interceptors
  

Synopsis for Chop Chop: "...and the Veiled Princess"

This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #36.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "...and the Veiled Princess"

Featured Characters:

• Chop Chop

Antagonists:

• Sultan of Chichiku
  • Men at Arms

Other Characters:

• Princess of Chichiku
• Lady in Waiting
• her boyfriend

Locations:

• Asia
  • Chichiku, far beyond Tibet
• Pacific Ocean
  • Manaloa Island

Vehicles:

• one Blackhawk North American F-86 Sabre Jet
  

Appearing in "Stand-Ins For Death"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• General Klang
  • his troops

Other Characters:

• U.N. POWs ({green
  

Appearing in "The Phantom Raider"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• General Pradas, The Phantom
  • his troops

Other Characters:

• Free World Leaders

Locations:

• Central Europe
  • Free World ammunition stockpile
  • mountain retreat
• Free World military headquarters
• World Court
• Blackhawk Island

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C long-range interceptors

Notes

• Killer Vulture:
  • This story is set in several real countries, which is unusual for a Blackhawk story.
  • The Vulture and his mercs invade whole towns, and fight the police, with their bare fists. They don't even carry sidearms. They get away with this for three melees in a row, in Netherlands, in Italy, and versus the Blackhawks.
  • Blackhawk gets knocked to his knees by a blow to the head from a vase thrown by Chop Chop. This is his sixty-first concussion.
• Stand-Ins For Death
  • Blackhawk gets knocked unconscious by a blow to the head with a rifle stock. This is his sixty-second concussion.
  • Each Blackhawk Jet is equipped with multiple inflatable fake Blackhawk Jets, with tow-cables.
• Phantom Raider
  • Like the Vulture's crew of raiders, the Phantom Raider's troops apparently carry no weapons. Even when attacked on the ground by the Blackhawks, they fight only with their fists.
  • When he gets sidelined with an injury, Blackhawk designates Hendrickson to lead the Squadron.
  • Blackhawk gets knocked unconscious by a blow to the head with a rifle stock. This is his third blunt instrument head trauma in this issue alone, and the sixty-third concussion of his career. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
• Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was:
  • "The Perfect Double-Cross" (non-Blackhawk text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series
• Images from Blackhawk Vol 1 78

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