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Genghis Khan II (Quality Universe)

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Quote1 To horse, warriors! I am Genghis Khan arisen! Follow the Great Sword to conquest and glory! Quote2
— Genghis Khan src

An unidentified Asian man believed himself to be the genuine reincarnation of Genghis Khan, undertook the conquest of Asia, and enjoyed similar success as the ancient warlord too, until he clashed with the Blackhawks.

In the early 1940s, a solitary nomad fulfilled a prophecy, by pulling the legendary Sword of Genghis Khan free from Khan's tombstone, and cleaving it in twain. This character thenceforth would be a reincarnation of Genghis Khan.

In 1942, while the world was already completely at war, a vast horde of Mongol and Tartar horsemen swept westward out of Inner Mongolia, led by a claimant to the identity of Genghis Khan. In the face of this new emergency, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill proposed a temporary truce, to which Chancellor Hitler agreed.

But Hitler also treacherously sent an envoy, flying eastward into Asia, to form an alliance with this new Golden Horde. The envoy, von Trope, proposed Hitler's terms, which while exceedingly generous, were not to the great Khan's liking. He ordered von Trope to be tortured to death, alongside Blackhawk, who was captured earlier by his Horde. This activity was lethally disrupted by the arriving Blackhawk Squadron, and machine-gun fire.

Ultimately Blackhawk got loose, and got close enough to Genghis Khan, in front of enough Mongols, to challenge the warlord to single combat. The supposed reincarnation of the Great Khan lost this fight, so badly that his troops now considered him a fraud, and flung him off a cliff to his death.


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  • At the end of the story in which this warlord appears, in Military Comics #7, the villain has supposedly been exposed as a fraud, but at this story's beginning, the reader sees him actually slice thru the stone with a one-handed sweep of his blade. Other seemingly supernatural events follow in his wake, for a time. The chronicles say nothing to clarify this loss of his mojo.
  • See also Blackhawk #62. Eleven years after this, in 1953, Blackhawk and his gang will encounter another self-proclaimed Genghis Khan, nine feet tall, who will claim to have been in alchemically-induced suspended animation for 700 years. But if the Great Khan has been alive all these centuries, how did he "reincarnate" in the other story? The truth of these matters may never be fully established.

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