Blackhawk Vol 1 80

"Fang, the Merciless": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"Fang, the Merciless"
Cover
Blackhawk Vol 1 #80
September, 1954
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Dick Dillin Chuck Cuidera
Fang, the Merciless
Writers	Dick Wood
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Editors	Al Grenet
Chop Chop: "Are You Full of Zing?"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
The Iron Curtain Destroyer
Writers	Dick Wood
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
The Death-Digger
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Previous Issue	Blackhawk # 79
Next Issue	Blackhawk # 81

Blackhawk #80 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1954.

Appearing in "Fang, the Merciless"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Fang (Apparent Death)
  • Miss Evil Fang (Apparent Death)
  • Snake Pit Master (Dies)
• Killer Shark (Apparent Death)
• King Cobra (Apparent Death)

Animals:

• assorted deadly snakes
• giant manta ray

Locations:

• Blackhawk Island
• China
  • Great Wall of China
    • Fang's Fortress (Destroyed)
  • River of the Dead

Items:

• Fang's H-Bomb Cannon, "Hell Cannon" (Destroyed)

Vehicles:

• Six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs
• Blackhawk Glider
• Fang's Slave Galley
  

Synopsis for Chop Chop: "Are You Full of Zing?"

This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #49.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "Are You Full of Zing?"

Featured Characters:

• Chop Chop

Antagonists:

• Marvelous Mauler, shady wrestler
• shady managers and trainers too

Locations:

• Cruncher's Gym
  

Appearing in "The Iron Curtain Destroyer"

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

Antagonists:

• Red Military

Other Characters:

• Kovac, Polish Underground
  • his guerrillas

Locations:

• Red Poland
  • Great Mountain
    • Great Cave
  • Skull Mountain
  • Swamp

Vehicles:

• The "Iron Curtain Destroyer"
  

Appearing in "The Death-Digger"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Doctor Death (Apparent Death)
  • his troops (Apparent Death)

Other Characters:

• Limerian General
  • his troops (many die)

Locations:

• Democratic Limeria

Vehicles:

• The Death-Digger (Destroyed)

Notes

• Fang the Merciless
  • Evil Fang is the daughter of Fang (and, yes, her first name is Evil).
  • This is the fourth of Killer Shark's five appearances.
  • This is the second of King Cobra's two appearances. At the end of his first appearance, in Blackhawk #58, he got shot thru an Electric Cannon, and died. His return is not explained.
  • Killer Shark definitely returns next issue, in Blackhawk #81.
  • Blackhawk gets shot down, for the nineteenth time.
  • Blackhawk survives his fourteenth plane crash. Over the course of his long combat career, Blackhawk survived at least seventeen aircraft crashes.
  • Chop Chop survives his fourth plane crash..
  • Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious with a blunt-tipped arrow. This is his sixty-fifth concussion.
  • Chuck gets head-konked unconscious with a blunt-tipped arrow. This is his eighth concussion.
  • Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
• The Iron Curtain Destroyer was a Polish Underground mass-escape vehicle, assembled from a bulletproof railroad car, powered by four Soviet tank engines, and armed with salvaged warplane gunnery.
• Death-Digger
  • The Doctor Death appearing in this story is not the same villain as "Dr. Death" who lived and died in "The Isle of the Damned," the 4th story of Blackhawk #62, and also is not known to be related to or affiliated with any of the "Doctor Death"s from any parallel universes.
  • The underground lair of the Death-Digger is a "submerged volcano," with stalactites and stalagmites.
  • One of Dr. Death's soldiers addresses another as "Comrade," but in that context they are comrades. No Communist insignia is visible.
  • Blackhawk not only re-uses his jacket-with-built-in-helium-inflating-balloon gimmick, he actually refers to the "Destroyer Drill," the recent story in which it first appeared. (It was the 1st story in Blackhawk #79). This was very rare in Quality Comics of this era.
  • Doctor Death is aboard the Death-Digger when it bores into a gigantic vat of acid and is destroyed, thus is presumed dead.
• Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was:
  • "Bird of Evil" (non-Blackhawk text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series
• Images from Blackhawk Vol 1 80

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