Blackhawk Vol 1 80

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

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 "Fang, the Merciless"

• Synopsis not yet written.

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
  

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

This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #49.

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"
  

Synopsis for "The Iron Curtain Destroyer"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

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)
  

Synopsis for "The Death-Digger"

• Synopsis not yet written.

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.^[1]
  • 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.^[2]
  • Blackhawk survives his eleventh plane crash.^[3]
  • Chop Chop survives his fourth plane crash..^[4]
  • Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious with a blunt-tipped arrow. This is his sixty-fifth concussion.^[5]
  • Chuck gets head-konked unconscious with a blunt-tipped arrow. This is his eighth concussion.^[6]
• 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)

Trivia

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