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"Inferno From the Sky": When a beautiful female aviator crash-lands on Blackhawk Island, the team lets down their guard. She turns out to be a Russian spy named Sovietta, and disables their defenses, allowing the communists to take over the island, intending to bomb key cities around the world,

Quote1 We'll stop the Wolf with the very weapon he uses, Stanislaus ... a SUBMARINE! We Blackhawks will build a SUPER-SUB capable of blasting his entire pack out of the water! Quote2
Blackhawk

Blackhawk #87 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1955.

Synopsis for "Inferno From the Sky"

When a beautiful female aviator crash-lands on Blackhawk Island, the team lets down their guard. She turns out to be a Russian spy named Sovietta, and disables their defenses, allowing the communists to take over the island, intending to bomb key cities around the world, using the Blackhawk jets, which have free rein across the skies.

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Appearing in "Inferno From the Sky"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Communist Party
    • Sovietta (arrested)
      • Marshal Redrum
        • his invasion force (some die)

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Soviet Landing Ship disguised as a freighter
    • Soviet Tanks
  • six Lockheed F-90C interceptors


Synopsis for Chop Chop: "Rented Camel"

This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #52.

Appearing in Chop Chop: "Rented Camel"

Featured Characters:

Animals:

  • rented camel
  • rented ox

Other Characters:

  • Ali Bali, Camel Renter

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Sea Wolf"


Appearing in "The Sea Wolf"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • British Army officer

Antagonists:

  • Sea Wolf (arrested)
    • her submarine crews: Zor, others (3 crews die)

Locations:

  • North Atlantic Ocean
  • England
    • an English Aerodrome
    • an isolated shipyard
    • British Army Headquarters
    • 7 Terrace Lane, Miss Ackhiem's lodgings
  • Sea Wolf's Lair, an island south of Bergen, Norway

Vehicles:

  • freighter fleet (many destroyed)
  • six Lockheed F-90C interceptors
  • wolf pack of pirate submarines (three destroyed)
  • 60 more submarines (supposedly)
  • 12 more submarines (actually) (Destroyed)
  • Hawkmarine (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Ordeal for a Blackhawk"


Appearing in "Ordeal for a Blackhawk"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

Locations:

Items:

  • Official Defense Plans (stolen & recaptured)

Vehicles:

  • six Lockheed F-90C interceptors
  • Le Sabre's cigar-shaped vehicle, armed w/ gas sprayers

Notes

  • This is the first issue of Blackhawk to display the Comics Code Authority's Seal of Approval
  • Inferno From the Sky
    • Per the 6th panel of the 3rd page of this story, the 1955 version of Blackhawk Island is within 70 miles of this point: "Longitude 180, Latitude 15"
      • Longitude 180 is the International Date Line, running down the mid-Pacific Ocean.
      • Latitude 15 is in the tropical part of the South Pacific Occean.
    • The Communist villains in this story wear bright red uniforms.
  • Sea Wolf
    • This story introduces the Hawksub, which at first is called the "Hawkmarine." The seven Blackhawks build this super submarine, in an isolated shipyard. We are not told how long this takes.
    • Sea Wolf's submariners wear orange uniforms emblazoned with a wolf-head logo, like a parody of the Blackhawks' hawk-head logo.
    • Miss Ackhiem claims that the Sea Wolf has 60 U-boats at his disposal, but she is lying about a couple of other things in that conversation, like her identity, so this figure is suspect.
    • Blackhawk is head-punched unconscious, from behind, by a coward. This is his sixty-seventh concussion.[1]
  • Ordeal for a Blackhawk
    • Le Sabre is supposedly Andre's brother Pierre, who died in a concentration camp during WWII, but turns out to be lyng about that, and that Andre's brother is really dead.
  • Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was:
    • "Revenge" (text story)



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