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Quote1 We have volunteered to patrol and safeguard the caravan lanes from the raids of our former enemy, the Desert Tiger! Any questions before we move out? Quote2
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The Desert Tiger was a caravan-raiding outlaw gang leader, and an enemy of the Blackhawks.

In 1958, the Blackhawks were called to the Sahara Desert, to again engage a "former enemy" of theirs, the infamous Desert Tiger. This raider and his marauding riffs were equipped with an electronic jet-engine-killing anti-aircraft weapon and a half dozen propeller-driven sand sleds, and had taken over an abandoned French Foreign Legion fort. At the cost of two Lockheed F-90 interceptors and one Safari-mobile, the Blackhawks cobbled together a sand-sliding vehicle capable of engaging the Tiger's smaller sand-sleds, and defeated them.


Abilities


Transportation

  • propeller-powered sand sleds

Weapons

  • electrical atmospheric weapon


  • This version of the Desert Tiger, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.
  • In Blackhawk #121 the Desert Tiger is presented as a "former enemy," but that is actually his first appearance.
  • In the story, the Desert Tiger has a white beard except for the splash page in which it is black.

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