Listen carefully, you fat tub of lard! This is the speech you will read! I will stand in the wings ... My gun will point right at your heart! ... Read one sentence wrong ... and BANG! 
Military Comics #22 is an issue of the series Military Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1943.
Synopsis for Blackhawk: "Suspicion"
The Blackhawks see that the war is moving southward, ever farther away from their North Atlantic secret base, so they survey some Mediterranean islands, scouting for a new base site. They encounter some Nazis and one of them impersonates Hendrickson, to get aboard their base at Blackhawk Island. The impostor is found out, but escapes, and leads the team back to his own base, where he is killed by his own commander, for leading the enemy to their secret base. The Blackhawks attack the base, rescue Hendrickson, and take over the island.
Appearing in Blackhawk: "Suspicion"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Herr Von Luben (wears a monocle)
- Johann, soldier
- Falk, soldier
- Hendrickson Impersonator (Dies)
Locations:
- Blackhawk Island, in the North Atlantic Ocean
- Mediterranean Sea
- four different islands
Items:
- Scopalomine Truth Serum
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets
Synopsis for Private Dogtag: "Dora Devine"
Appearing in Private Dogtag: "Dora Devine"
Featured Characters:
Synopsis for The Sniper: "The Beer Hall Putsch Celebration"
Appearing in The Sniper: "The Beer Hall Putsch Celebration"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Paul Wertz (Single appearance; dies)
- Major Heintz
- Major Kalb (Single appearance; dies)
- Captain Merdus (Single appearance; dies)
- Colonel Pflung (Single appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- disaffected German civilians
Locations:
Synopsis for Death Patrol: "Calling on Hirohito"
Appearing in Death Patrol: "Calling on Hirohito"
Featured Characters
- Death Patrol
- Boris
- Hank (formerly thought dead)
- King Hotintot
- Yogi
Antagonists:
- Admiral Yamuri, (mistaken for the Son of Hirohito)
Locations:
- Japan
- Tokyo
- Hirohito's Palace
- Tokyo
- Pacific Ocean
- Bismark Sea (Mentioned only)
- New Guinea (Mentioned only)
- Bismark Sea (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
- Death Patrol self-designed home-built fighter planes
- Yogi's Flying Carpet
Synopsis for PT Boat: "Moby Dick Doesn't Like Japs"
Appearing in PT Boat: "Moby Dick Doesn't Like Japs"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- MTB Squadron Six
- PT Squadron Commander (Unnamed)
- PT Boat Crew: Rafferty, others (some die)
Antagonists:
- Japanese Navy
- submarine crew (Dies)
Animals:
- "Moby Dick" a sperm whale
Locations:
- South Pacific Ocean
Vehicles:
- U.S. PT Boat
- Japanese Submarine (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Atlantic Patrol: "The Red Star"
Appearing in Atlantic Patrol: "The Red Star"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Captain Molokoff, Red Army (Dies)
Locations:
- Atlantic Ocean
- off Cape Hatteras
- coast of Labrador
Items:
- secret document
Vehicles:
- Red Star, Soviet freighter (Destroyed)
- Nazi U-Boat
Synopsis for Sailor Danny: "The Slave of the Lamp"
Appearing in Sailor Danny: "The Slave of the Lamp"
Featured Characters:
- Sailor Danny
Synopsis for Secret War News: "Barney Ross's Greatest Fight"
Appearing in Secret War News: "Barney Ross's Greatest Fight"
Featured Characters:
- Barney Ross, USMC
Villains:
Other Characters:
- "Gunner" Lund, USMC
- "Skee" Wilsky, USMC
- Tony Alameda, USMC (Dies)
- "Big Outlaw", USMC (Dies)
- "Heavy" Atkins, USMC
- other Marines and Medical Corpsmen
Locations:
- Pacific Ocean
- Guadalcanal
Items:
- Distinguished Service Cross
Notes
- Blackhawk:
- Hendrickson inexplicably loses his customary accent for this issue's story. Andre also loses his, but regains it.
- Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
- Hendrickson also gets head-konked unconscious, for the first time in his career.
- Chop Chop gets a bullet wound, for the first time in his career.
- Andre re-tells the tale of his disfiguration and two rounds of plastic surgery, from Military Comics #10, while Chop-Chop mentions his girlfriend Lotus Petal from #11.
- At this story's end, the Blackhawks have taken over a Mediterranean Island, and intend to turn it into their new base.
- First issue for Al Stahl script and art on Death Patrol, replacing Gill Fox.
- Last issue's villain was Hirocheato, and he died. This issue the spelling has changed to Hirohito.
- At the end of last issue's episode, Del and the team were in the Emperor's Palace, in Tokio, Japan. At the beginning of this episode, without explanation, Del and Gramps are absent, and Hank is back with the team.
- Tokyo, which was until last issue spelled "Tokio" in this series, is now spelled "Tokyo."
- PT Boat
- The hull number of Harvey & Tobias's PT Boat is never visible in this story.
- Another submarine crew gets killed.
- The 1942 popular catch phrase "sighted sub, sank same" gets re-used as the punchline to this story.
- Secret War News
- "This is an actual story based upon inside facts gathered from U.S.N. Information Bureaus."
- Also featured in this issue of Military Comics were:
- Johnny Doughboy by Bernard Dibble
- "Murder is the Goal" (text story)
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