Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1954.
Synopsis for "Fang, the Merciless"
Appearing in "Fang, the Merciless"
Featured Characters:
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
- Great Wall of China
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:
Antagonists:
- Marvelous Mauler, shady wrestler
- shady managers and trainers too
Locations:
- Cruncher's Gym
Synopsis for "The Iron Curtain Destroyer"
Appearing in "The Iron Curtain Destroyer"
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Kovac, Polish Underground
- his guerrillas
Locations:
- Red Poland
- Great Mountain
- Great Cave
- Skull Mountain
- Swamp
- Great Mountain
Vehicles:
- The "Iron Curtain Destroyer"
Synopsis for "The Death-Digger"
Appearing in "The Death-Digger"
Featured Characters:
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.[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 nineteenth plane crash. Over the course of his long combat career, Blackhawk survived at least twenty-two aircraft crashes.[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]
- 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
Links and References
- ↑ Blackhawk #50, Blackhawk #70, Blackhawk #74, Blackhawk #80, & Blackhawk #81
- ↑ Military Comics #6, Military Comics #13, Military Comics #14, Military Comics #19, Military Comics #28, Military Comics #33, Blackhawk #9, Military Comics #39, Military Comics #42, Modern Comics #44, Blackhawk #10, Blackhawk #12, Blackhawk #13, Modern Comics #69, Blackhawk #18, Blackhawk #21 4th story, Blackhawk #36 1st story, Blackhawk #64 1st story, Blackhawk #80 1st story
- ↑ Military Comics #1 (3 in one story), Military Comics #4 (2 in one story), Military Comics #6, Military Comics #13, Military Comics #14, Military Comics #19, Military Comics #33, Blackhawk #9, Military Comics #39, Modern Comics #61, Modern Comics #83, Modern Comics #91, Blackhawk #64 (2, in two stories), Blackhawk #70, Blackhawk #80, Blackhawk #81, Blackhawk #83, & Blackhawk #88
- ↑ Military Comics #3, Modern Comics #45, Modern Comics #61, Blackhawk #80.
- ↑ Military Comics #7, Military Comics #30, Military Comics #36, Military Comics #39, Military Comics #41, Military Comics #42, Modern Comics #47, Blackhawk #11, Modern Comics #51, Modern Comics #52, Modern Comics #53, Blackhawk #12, Modern Comics #54, Blackhawk #13, Modern Comics #56, Blackhawk #14, Modern Comics #60, twice in Blackhawk #15, Blackhawk #16, thrice in Blackhawk #17, Modern Comics #67, Modern Comics #69, Modern Comics #71, Modern Comics #73, twice in Blackhawk #21, Modern Comics #78, twice more in Blackhawk #22, Blackhawk #23, Modern Comics #84, Modern Comics #89, Blackhawk #27, Modern Comics #91, Modern Comics #93, Blackhawk #31, Modern Comics #98, Blackhawk #32, Blackhawk #35, Blackhawk #42, Blackhawk #43, Blackhawk #45, Blackhawk #46, Blackhawk #48, Blackhawk #50, Blackhawk #51, twice in Blackhawk #52, twice in Blackhawk #57, Blackhawk #58, Blackhawk #62, Blackhawk #63, Blackhawk #64, Blackhawk #65, Blackhawk #70, Blackhawk #75, thrice in Blackhawk #78, Blackhawk #79, Blackhawk #80
- ↑ Blackhawk #17, Blackhawk #31, Modern Comics #99, Blackhawk #33, & Blackhawk #42, Blackhawk #58, Blackhawk #68, & Blackhawk #80
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