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"Malenkov's Merchant of Murder": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Quote1 Let's hope the Red vultures of aggression will learn a lesson by this defeat in Iran! Quote2
Chuck Wilson

Blackhawk #82 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1954.

Synopsis for "Malenkov's Merchant of Murder"


Appearing in "Malenkov's Merchant of Murder"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Red Army
    • General Darsarsh (Dies)
      • many Red troops
    • Sabo Teur (Dies)
    • Vasnish impersonator (Dies) (not the real Red Agent Vasnish)

Other Characters:

  • Iranian Army

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • many Red tanks and armored cars
  • six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors


Synopsis for Chop Chop: "Super's Super Market"

This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #45.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "Super's Super Market"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Monk
  • other hoodlum

Other Characters:

  • squad of cops

Locations:

  • large U.S. city
    • Super's Super Market

Items:

  • flour sack full of cash

Vehicles:

  • grocery cart

Synopsis for "Red China Hatchet Man"


Appearing in "Red China Hatchet Man"

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • many murdered Chinese citizens (purged)
  • many imprisoned Chinese citizens (freed)
  • three thousand Chinese hostages (revolt)

Locations:

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "Twenty-Four Hours To Doom"


Appearing in "Twenty-Four Hours To Doom"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • U.W. Army pilots

Antagonists:

  • Karco, Voltanian Dictator (arrested, and terminally ill)

Other Characters:

  • Professor Blandeau, atomic energy expert (Dies)

Locations:

Items:

  • Karco's Cobalt Bomb

Vehicles:

  • six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors (all are damaged)
  • seven United World Army fighter planes
  • seven Blackhawk man-carrying kites

Notes

  • Malenkov's Merchant of Murder
    • Unlike most Blackhawk stories, this one is set in a Real World country, Iran. In 1954, Iran was a U.S. ally, and Georgy Malenkov was running the Soviet Union.
    • Soviet Agent Vasnish, of whom we've never heard before nor will again, only apparently dies, according to Sabo Teur (page 6 panel 4).
    • Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious with a rifle butt. This is his sixty-sixth concussion.[1]
    • Blackhawk gets a bullet wound to the head, but it does not knock him out. This is at least the ninth time he's been bullet-wounded.[2]
  • Red China Hatchet Man
    • That's Comrade Klang's job title, a big promotion for an ex-Tong executioner. He's now in charge of purging all non-Communist Chinese. He makes colorful and skillful use of hatchets in his work.
    • In the next-to-last panel, Comrade Klang's boss, "Comrade General," is getting piled onto by his former hostages, so he's in serious danger, but he also has a lot of troops right there in the same camp, so his fate is ambiguous. He doesn't look all that much like Mao, especially his haircut, and he's never called anything but "General," so his identity is ambiguous also.
  • Twenty-Four Hours To Doom
    • In the 3rd panel of the 3rd page, Blackhawk refers to the U.W. by its initials, which did not happen very often.
  • Also appearing in this issue of Blackhawk was:
    • "Mission of Death" (text story)



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