Military Comics #24 is an issue of the series Military Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1943.
Synopsis for Blackhawk: "The Man with the Heavy Glasses!"
Appearing in Blackhawk: "The Man with the Heavy Glasses!"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Sandoz (Single appearance; dies)
- Japanese Soldiers (some die)
Other Characters:
- Major Cobb (Single appearance; dies)
Locations:
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- new Blackhawk Island, in the Pacific Ocean (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets
- new model Mitsubishi fighter plane, unmarked (damaged, captured)
- old model Hawker fighter plane, unmarked (Destroyed)
- Japanese Aircraft Carrier
- two Japanese Destroyers
Synopsis for Death Patrol: "The Super Scooper Dive"
Appearing in Death Patrol: "The Super Scooper Dive"
Featured Characters
- Death Patrol
- Del Van Dyne
- Jackie, formerly Frere Jacques, the Patchwork Kid
- Hank
- King Hotintot
- Yogi
Antagonists:
Locations:
Vehicles:
- Death Patrol self-designed home-built fighter planes, five of them
- Japanese Submarine Aircraft Carrier (Apparently Destroyed)
- Japanese Battleship (Destroyed)
- Japanese Submarine (pursued into next issue)
Synopsis for Sniper: "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
Appearing in Sniper: "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
Featured Characters:
Villains:
- Imperial Japan
- Black Dragon Society
- Suratai (First appearance)
- Japanese troops
- Suratai (First appearance)
- Black Dragon Society
Other Characters:
- captured American flyer
Locations:
- Philippines
- Luzon
Vehicles:
- Sniper's speedboat
Synopsis for Private Dogtag: "Backa Bom Bey"
Appearing in Private Dogtag: "Backa Bom Bey"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Backa Bom Bey
Synopsis for PT Boat: "Dispute With a Pursuit Pilot"
Appearing in PT Boat: "Dispute With a Pursuit Pilot"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- MTB Squadron Eight
- PT Squadron Commander (not yet named)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Lieutenant Watkins, fighter pilot
Locations:
- South Pacific Ocean
Vehicles:
- 1 U.S.N. PT Boat
- 1 U.S.N. fighter plane
- Japanese aircraft carrier (Destroyed)
- Japanese fighter planes (some destroyed)
- Japanese dive bombers
Synopsis for Atlantic Patrol: "B-17 versus U-Boat"
Appearing in Atlantic Patrol: "B-17 versus U-Boat"
Featured Characters:
- Atlantic Patrol
- Flying Officer William Knowles, bomber pilot
- his bomber crew
Locations:
Vehicles:
- B-17 Flying Fortress
- two U-Boats (Destroyed)
- one merchantman (crippled)
Synopsis for Secret War News: "U.S. Battleship Smashes Jap Air and Sea Armadas"
(Nonfiction account of the Battle of Guadalcanal)
Appearing in Secret War News: "U.S. Battleship Smashes Jap Air and Sea Armadas"
Featured Characters:
- Captain L. Gatch, U.S.N. (wounded)
- Gunner's Mate First Class Chatelain (Dies)
- Chief Quartermaster Ziegler
Antagonists:
Locations:
Vehicles:
- "Battleship X"
- 20 Baku-99 Dive Bombers (Destroyed)
- 40 Kogekiki Torpedo Bombers (some destroyed)
- other Japanese warplanes (some destroyed)
- 2 Japanese battleships (Destroyed)
- 5 Japanese cruisers (Destroyed)
- 2 Japanese destroyers (Destroyed)
- several other Japanese ships (Destroyed)
Notes
- Atlantic Patrol
- Lieutenant Knowles and his B-17 were assigned to the Royal Air Force's Coastal Command at the time of these encounters. He and his crew went down in the North Sea following a mission over Germany, in 1944.
- Blackhawk
- First issue for the new Blackhawk Island, in the Pacific Ocean.
- Olaf gets a bullet wound, his first, in the shoulder. Andre also gets bullet-wounded, for the third time,[1] in the leg. Blackhawk gets a stab wound that leaves him hospitalized. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
- Blackhawk lands on a Japanese aircraft carrier, refuels his Skyrocket, and flies away. He's done this before. In Military Comics #11, the whole squadron landed on a German aircraft carrier, refueled, and flew away.
- Death Patrol
- On the 1st panel of the 4th page, Jackie breaks the Fourth Wall to alert the reader to an upcoming surprise.
- Boris and Gramps are both absent from this episode, or at least aren't seen in the art. Only five of the custom fighter planes are visible, which is consistent with Del, Hank, Hotintot, Jackie, and Yogi as flying.
- Secret War News
- "For reasons of Naval secrecy, Military Comics is withholding the name of the American ship and it will be referred to as Battleship X, ..."
- "This is an actual story based upon inside facts gathered from U.S.N. Information Bureaus."
- Maybe so but the only U.S. battleship present at the Battle of Guadalcanal was the USS North Carolina, commanded by Captain George H. Fort. Battleship X and the North Carolina both pack 16-inch guns.
- Sniper
- Japanese soldiers in this story talk in a comically pidgin version of English.
- Also featured in this issue of Military Comics were:
- Johnny Doughboy by Bernard Dibble
- "Curse of the Chimus" (text story)
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