Blackhawk Vol 1 81

"The Monster Dynamo": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"The Monster Dynamo"
Cover
Blackhawk Vol 1 #81
October, 1954
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Dick Dillin Chuck Cuidera
The Monster Dynamo
Writers	Dick Wood
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Editors	Al Grenet
Chop Chop: "Murder In Muchogusto"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
The Sea Monsters of Killer Shark
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
The Flying Flat-Top
Pencilers	Dick Dillin
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Previous Issue	Blackhawk # 80
Next Issue	Blackhawk # 82

So ... at last it's happened! Chop Chop dead ... and the mighty Blackhawk! I shall miss battling him! He was a worthy opponent!

— Killer Shark (Final appearance)

Blackhawk #81 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1954.

Appearing in "The Monster Dynamo"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Eric von Ackheim (Dies)
  • his aircrew (Dies)

Other Characters:

• U.S. Army officers

Locations:

• one of Europe's largest cities, 1st attack site
• U.S. Army Laboratories
• France
  • Havre, 2nd attack site
  • nearby Blackhawk Base
• Holland
  • Danzing, 3rd attack site

Items:

• Von Ackheim's Monster Dynamo (Destroyed)
• DuBois' Fiendish Electronic Brain (rebuilt and redestroyed)

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors
  
  

Synopsis for "The Monster Dynamo"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "Murder In Muchogusto"

Featured Characters:

• Chop Chop

Antagonists:

• Paquita, secretary (Single appearance)
• Vice-Presidente Dr. Celadoro (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

• Presidente Mazeppo (Single appearance)
• General Bombombo (Single appearance)
• Presidente Quirrilo, RIP (Mentioned only)
• Presidente Forbodo, RIP (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Central America
  • Muchogusto

Items:

• water pistol

Vehicles:

• Grumman XF5F Skyrocket
  

Synopsis for Chop Chop: "Murder In Muchogusto"

This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #32.

Appearing in "The Sea Monsters of Killer Shark"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Killer Shark (Final appearance)
  • his pirate crew

Locations:

• Blackhawk Island
• Pacific Ocean
• Killer Shark's cavern lair

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors
• mechanical fake giant sawfish (Destroyed)
• mechanical fake giant electric eel (Destroyed)
• mechanical fake giant octopus (Destroyed)
• mechanical fake giant sting ray, an aerial submarine (Destroyed)
• mechanical fake whale (Destroyed)
• series of cargo ships (Destroyed)
  

Synopsis for "The Sea Monsters of Killer Shark"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in "The Flying Flat-Top"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Satan
  • Satan's Squadron

Other Characters:

• Rurigonian Air Force 2-star general

Locations:

• Rurigonia

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors
• Blackhawk Dirigible
• The Flying Flat-Top (grounded, repurposed)
  • Satan's Squadron
    

Synopsis for "The Flying Flat-Top"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

• The Monster Dynamo was an electrical terror more powerful than even the atomic bomb, with an impregnable steel hull. It could fly and hover, was shielded with magnetic deflection, and could shoot artificial lightning in any direction.
  • This super weapon shot enough lightning to destroy several large buildings, in one of Europe's largest cities. Then deflected antiaircraft cannon shells ricocheted into the same city, shattering more buildings. And finally Von Ackheim leveled many entire blocks of buildings, across the city, in the form of a giant swastika, etched in bare smoldering dirt. Thousands or maybe tens of thousands of civilians are killed. Afterward this is never mentioned again.
  • A second Monster Dynamo attack is made, on Havre, with more toppled buildings and much destruction.
  • Eric von Ackheim, formerly Hitler's chief scientist, faked his own death in 1945, and returned in 1954, as "the Shocker."
  • Blackhawk mentions Professor DuBois and his Fiendish Electronic Brain, from Blackhawk #77, and attempts to deploy Dubois' device against the Monster Dynamo. This kind of attention to continuity was rare at Quality Comics.
  • Blackhawks had a headquarters in France, near Havre, per page 6 panel 4.
• Sea Monsters of Killer Shark
  • This is the fifth and last of Killer Shark's five appearances. Killer Shark and his crew are arrested alive, but will not return.
  • Blackhawk gets shot down, for the twentieth time.
  • Blackhawk survives his fifteenth plane crash. Over the course of his long combat career, Blackhawk survived at least seventeen aircraft crashes.
  • Chop Chop survives his fifth plane crash..
• Flying Flat-Top
  • Like the Monster Dynamo, earlier in this issue, the Flying Flat-Top has an anti-metallic magnetic field around itself, making conventional antiaircraft fire ineffective against it. But at least in this case the shells explode in mid-air, rather than ricocheting down into the town and exploding there.
  • Blackhawk gets shot in the shoulder. This is at least the eighth time he's been bullet-wounded.
• Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was:
  • "Tricks To All Trades" (text story)

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Blackhawk series
• Images from Blackhawk Vol 1 81

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