Military Comics Vol 1 19

"Blackhawk: "King Cobra"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Blackhawk: "King Cobra"
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Military Comics Vol 1 #19
May, 1943
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Reed Crandall
Blackhawk: "King Cobra"
Writers	William Woolfolk
Pencilers	Reed Crandall
Inkers	Reed Crandall
Editors	John Beardsley
Shot and Shell: "Idiots on Ice"
Writers	Klaus Nordling
Pencilers	Klaus Nordling
Inkers	Klaus Nordling
Sniper: "The Flying Battleship"
Writers	Ted Udall
Pencilers	Vernon Henkel
Inkers	Vernon Henkel
Private Dogtag: "Orphans From Slovania"
Writers	Bart Tumey
Pencilers	Bart Tumey
Inkers	Bart Tumey
PT Boat: "Island Incident"
Pencilers	Andre LeBlanc
Inkers	Andre LeBlanc
Pacific Patrol: "The Sharpshooter"
Writers	Fred Guardineer
Pencilers	Fred Guardineer
Inkers	Fred Guardineer
Secret War News: "U.S. Fliers Raid Germany"
Writers	Fred Guardineer
Pencilers	Fred Guardineer
Inkers	Fred Guardineer
Sailor Danny: "The Parrot and the Peril"
Writers	Art Gates
Pencilers	Art Gates
Inkers	Art Gates
Previous Issue	Military Comics # 18
Next Issue	Military Comics # 20

Here's our chance to slip outa sight while those guys are pre-occupied!

— Slim Shell, who hasn't been seen since.

Military Comics #19 is an issue of the series Military Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1943.

Appearing in Blackhawk: "King Cobra"

Featured Characters:

• Blackhawk Squadron
  • Andre
  • Blackhawk
  • Chop Chop
  • Chuck
  • Hendrickson
  • Olaf
  • Stanislaus

Antagonists:

• Nazi Party
  • Adolf Hitler
  • King Cobra (wears a monocle) (First appearance) (Dies)
    • The Rattlesnake Squadron

Other Characters:

• Farmer
• Hausfrau (Dies)

Locations:

• Blackhawk Island
• Germany
  • Berchtesgaden
  • Black Forest
    • Vyberg's Barony
  • Ground Batteries at Wormer

Vehicles:

• RAF Hawker fighters (some are destroyed)
• Luftwaffe Messerschmitt fighters (some are destroyed)
• 6 Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets
  

Synopsis for Shot and Shell: "Idiots on Ice"

Shot and Shell crash their plane in the ocean, they're not sure where, but it's way up north. It turns out that they're in German territory, and have to do some escaping, on skis, from a squad of riflemen. They cause enough slapstick commotion that the local German garrison is distracted while a team of Norwegian Patriot Commandos raid the outpost. They hook up with the withdrawing commando team.

Appearing in Shot and Shell: "Idiots on Ice"

Featured Characters:

• Colonel Sam Shot (Final appearance)
• Slim Shell (Final appearance)

Antagonists:

• German Infantry

Other Characters:

• Norwegian Patriot Commandos

Locations:

• Northern Norway

Vehicles:

• airplane (Destroyed)
• Norwegian Patriot Commando Boat
  

Appearing in Sniper: "The Flying Battleship"

Featured Characters:

• The Sniper

Antagonists:

• Luftwaffe
  • Captain Hunz (Dies)
  • his aviators: Fritz, others (Dies)

Locations:

• France
  • Paris
    • Eiffel Tower
• England
  • London

Vehicles:

• German 6-engine high-altitude long-range "Flying Battleship" aircraft (Destroyed)
• Sniper's fighter plane (lost)
• Formation of Allied Flying Fortresses (Destroyed)
• RAF fighter planes
  

Appearing in Private Dogtag: "Orphans From Slovania"

Featured Characters:

• Private Dogtag

Supporting Characters:

• Sergeant Roarigan

Other Characters:

• Slovanian Orphans

Locations:

• Slovania (Mentioned only)
  

Appearing in PT Boat: "Island Incident"

Featured Characters:

• Ensign Perry Tobias
• Ensign Paul Harvey

Supporting Characters:

• PT Squadron Commander (not yet named)
• PT Boat Crew

Antagonists:

• Japanese Navy & Marines

Other Characters:

• Jean, Nurse
• Likota, Chief
  • Island Tribe

Locations:

• Pacific Ocean
  • Lemmos Group
    • Owalli Harbor

Vehicles:

• at least 4 U.S. PT Boats
• Japanese Landing Craft (one destroyed)
• at least 3 U.S. Medium Bombers
  

Appearing in Pacific Patrol: "The Sharpshooter"

Featured Characters:

• Pacific Patrol
  • U.S. Marines
  • U.S. Civilian Contractor

Antagonists:

• Japanese Air Force

Locations:

• Pacific Ocean
  • Secret New American Island Base

Vehicles:

• flight of Japanese Dive Bombers (one destroyed)
  

Synopsis for Secret War News: "U.S. Fliers Raid Germany"

(Nonfiction account of U.S. 8th Air Force's first raid on Nazi Germany)

Appearing in Secret War News: "U.S. Fliers Raid Germany"

Characters:

• Captain Charles C. Kegelman
  • his bomber crew: Lt. Dorton, Sgt. Cunningham, Sgt. Golay
• General Dwight Eisenhower (Cameo)

Antagonists:

• Luftwaffe

Locations:

• Germany
• The Netherlands
  • De Kooy Airfield

Vehicles:

• 12 U.S. medium bombers
  

Appearing in Sailor Danny: "The Parrot and the Peril"

Featured Characters:

• Sailor Danny

Notes

• Blackhawk:
  • Olaf mentions Tondeleyo, the mysterious woman from Military Comics #14 who sapped the Blackhawks' will to fight, though her name is misspelled "Tondelyo". Then again, Olaf speaks with a pretty thick accent, and that could just be his way of saying "Tondeleyo."
  • Blackhawk gets shot down, for the third time. He also crashes. Over the course of his long combat career, Blackhawk survived at least seventeen aircraft crashes. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
  • King Cobra is not thought to be related to or affiliated with the Communist King Cobra of 1952, nor of the female pirate Cobra of 1948.
• First issue for Fred Guardineer as writer/artist on Pacific Patrol, which now contracts back to one page.
  • No claim is made about this story being true.
• First issue for Fred Guardineer as writer/artist on Secret War News, replacing Al McWilliams.
  • "This is an actual story based upon inside facts gathered from U.S.N. Information Bureaus."
  • Maybe so, but Wikipedia's article on this raid says 6 bombers, vice 12, went on the raid, and that these bombers were borrowed from the RAF. Six bombers went in and three came back, including Capt. Kegelman's plane, which was very badly damaged.
• Last issue for Shot and Shell by Klaus Nordling.
  • We are not told how or why Shot and Shell are in the Arctic area, or where they got that airplane that they crash into the Arctic Ocean.
  • Sam and Slim are last seen, with their new Norwegian friend, paddling an ice floe, towards a Norwegian patriot guerrilla boat.
• The Sniper still has a secret lair in the Eiffel Tower, first seen Military Comics #14. Before that, he simply roved.
  • He also now has a fighter plane, which he keeps hidden, in or very near to Paris. This fighter plane was left atop Captain Hunz's Flying Battleship when it was destroyed.
• Also featured in this issue of Military Comics were:
  • Johnny Doughboy by Bernard Dibble
  • Blackhawk: "The Hawk and the Dragon" (text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Military Comics series
• Images from Military Comics Vol 1 19

Recommended Reading

• World War II Recommended Reading
  • Adventures in the Rifle Brigade (Volume 1)
  • Adventures in the Rifle Brigade (Volume 2)
  • All-American Men of War (Volume 1)
  • All-Out War (Volume 1)
  • Blackhawk (Volume 1)
  • Blitzkrieg (Volume 1)
  • Capt. Storm (Volume 1)
  • Four-Star Battle Tales (Volume 1)
  • G.I. Combat (Volume 1)
  • Men of War (Volume 1)
  • Military Comics (Volume 1)
  • Our Army at War (Volume 1)
  • Our Fighting Forces (Volume 1)
  • Sgt. Rock (Volume 1)
  • Sgt. Rock (Volume 2)
  • Star-Spangled War Stories (Volume 1)
  • Unknown Soldier (Volume 1)
  • Weird War Tales (Volume 1)

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