Blackhawk #89 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1955.
Synopsis for "The Super Communists"
Appearing in "The Super Communists"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Super Communists:
- Thor, leader (Apparent Death)
- Argon (Apparent Death)
- others (Apparent Death)
Other Characters:
- prisoner laborers
Locations:
- Himalayas
- secret fertile valley
Items:
- Super Communists' lightning rifles
- Super Communists' antenna helmets
Vehicles:
- six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors
- Red jet-powered troop-carrying snow sleds
- Red ultra modern rockets
- Red new type tanks
Synopsis for Chop Chop: "A Chicken in Every Pot"
This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #51.
Chop Chop has some bad luck then some good luck with a store-bought live chicken, and ends up adopting the chicken.
Appearing in Chop Chop: "A Chicken in Every Pot"
Featured Characters:
Animals:
- elusive chicken
Other Characters:
- Chicken Vendor
- Poultry Show Judge
- security guards and cops
Synopsis for "The Fight For Survival"
Chuck quits the team and is replaced but then rejoins later.
Appearing in "The Fight For Survival"
Featured Characters:
- Blackhawk Squadron
- Andre
- Blackhawk
- Chop Chop
- Chuck Wilson
- Hans Hendrickson
- Olaf
- Rogers, replacement for Chuck (Single appearance)
- Stanislaus
Antagonists:
- Viper (arrested)
- his infantry and armor (mostly captured, some die)
Other Characters:
- U.W. troops
Locations:
- North-western Africa
- Atlas Mountains
- Tangiers (destination, not reached)
- U.W. Air Base
- Casablanca, Morocco (Mentioned only)
- Casablanca Hotel
Vehicles:
- Viper's snake-head motif armored tanks, w/ flame-throwers
- Viper's normal tanks, w/ cannons
- U.W. tanks
- six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors (one damaged)
Synopsis for "The Ghost Raiders of the Sky"
The Reds send hydrogen balloons, carrying H-bombs, across the Iron Curtain and destroy two important cities in Central Europe, one of them a national capital. Blackhawk and his gang invade Eastern Europe using a repurposed balloon, only filled with helium. This makes a critical difference in the fighting that follows. Also they call in their long-range interceptors, by remote control, and they arrive in a timely manner. The Blackhawks gather photographic evidence of the origins of the H-bomb balloons, and also blow up a great deal of Soviet military equipment, before leaving in their Lockheed interceptors.
Appearing in "The Ghost Raiders of the Sky"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
Locations:
Vehicles:
- six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C interceptors
- Red Hydrogen Balloons, w/ H-Bombs (one captured)
- Red MiG patrol fighter
- Red light plane
Notes
- Super Communists
- Splash page shows and describes the Blackhawk Jets falling out of the sky over the Himalayas. In the story, this does not happen.
- Fight For Survival
- Viper commands an army, with infantry and snake-head-motif tanks. He is arrested alive.
- There is a continuity issue here. At the end of the first story of Blackhawk #17, Blackhawk believed that the late pirate submariner, Wilson, of Tornado Bay, was actually Chuck's father. He also believed that he had prevented Chuck from figuring this out. But in this story, Chuck believes that both of his parents are alive, and apparently so does Blackhawk. It has truly been written that Blackhawk is confusing.
- Ghost Raiders of the Sky
- A capital city in Central Europe, and another important city, are destroyed by H-Bomb explosions. Afterward none of this is ever mentioned again.
- Also appearing in this issue of Blackhawk was:
- Blackhawk: "The Last Days" (text story)
See Also
Recommended Reading
Links and References
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