Military Comics Vol 1 28

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Blackhawk: "Dungeon of Doom"
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Military Comics Vol 1 #28
April, 1944
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Alex Kotzky
Blackhawk: "Dungeon of Doom"
Pencilers	John Cassone
Inkers	Alex Kotzky
Editors	George E. Brenner
Death Patrol: "The Floating Island"
Pencilers	Jack Cole
Inkers	Jack Cole
Sniper: "The Valley of Death"
Writers	Ted Udall
Pencilers	Vernon Henkel
Inkers	Vernon Henkel
Private Dogtag: "The Courage Serum"
Writers	Bart Tumey
Pencilers	Bart Tumey
Inkers	Bart Tumey
PT Boat: "This is a Story of Courage"
Editors	George E. Brenner
Pacific Patrol: "The Bombing of Paramushiro"
Writers	Fred Guardineer
Pencilers	Fred Guardineer
Inkers	Fred Guardineer
Secret War News: "The Rise and Fall of Mussolini"
Writers	Fred Guardineer
Pencilers	Fred Guardineer
Inkers	Fred Guardineer
Previous Issue	Military Comics # 27
Next Issue	Military Comics # 29

They never hit me! I knew you'd be all right, once you got the feel of a boat under your hands again! So I faked that little act! Was I good?

— Ensign Perry Tobias

Military Comics #28 is an issue of the series Military Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1944.

Appearing in Blackhawk: "Dungeon of Doom"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Japanese Military

Other Characters:

• Old Man of the Dungeon (Dies)

Locations:

• Blackhawk Island
• Kobe, Japan
  • Dungeon of Doom

Items:

• unnamed prisoner's box of super strength pills

Vehicles:

• six Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets (1 is destroyed)
• Japanese Zero fighter planes (4 are destroyed)
  

Appearing in Death Patrol: "The Floating Island"

Featured Characters:

• Death Patrol
  • Del Van Dyne
  • Boris
  • Gramps
  • Hank
  • King Hotintot
  • Yogi

Villains:

• Japanese Military

Other Characters

• FDR (Cameo)

Locations:

• Pacific Ocean

Vehicles:

• Death Patrol's unique compact warplanes
• Japanese Floating Island
  

Appearing in Sniper: "The Valley of Death"

Featured Characters:

• The Sniper

Supporting Characters:

• his band of Guerrillas

Antagonists:

• Black Dragon Society (Behind the scenes)
  • Suratai, Chief Assassin (Apparent Death)
    • his troops (most or all die)

Other Characters:

• American Flier (Dies)

Locations:

• Philippines
  • Sniper's Retreat, remote crag
  • Burzai, on the path to the Valley
  • Valley of Death, between two sheer cliffs
    • camouflaged factory building

Items:

• Japanese Gas

Vehicles:

• Japanese light bomber
  

Appearing in Private Dogtag: "The Courage Serum"

Featured Characters:

• Private Dogtag
  

Appearing in PT Boat: "This is a Story of Courage"

Featured Characters:

• Ensign Perry Tobias
• Lieutenant Paul Harvey

Supporting Characters:

• MTB Squadron Six
• PT Squadron Commander (not yet named)

Antagonists:

• Japanese Military
• Solomon Ish (Dies)

Locations:

• South Pacific Ocean
  • U.S. Naval Base
    • Hospital
    • MTB-6 base
  • Rejavi Island
  • Kybar Island

Vehicles:

• U.S. PT Boats (some destroyed)
• Solomon Ish's fleet of small freighters (many destroyed)
• Japanese Cruiser (damaged or destroyed)
  

Synopsis for Pacific Patrol: "The Bombing of Paramushiro"

(nonfiction account of a bombing raid in the Kurile Islands)

Appearing in Pacific Patrol: "The Bombing of Paramushiro"

Featured Characters:

• Pacific Patrol

Antagonists:

• Japanese Military

Locations:

• Northern Pacific Ocean
  • Attu, Aleutian Islands
  • Paramushiro, Kurile Islands

Vehicles:

• U.S. B-24 Liberator heavy bombers
• U.S. B-25 Mitchell medium bombers (10 total bombers lost)
• Japanese Zero interceptors (10 destroyed)
  

Synopsis for Secret War News: "The Rise and Fall of Mussolini"

(nonfiction account of the career of Benito Mussolini)

Appearing in Secret War News: "The Rise and Fall of Mussolini"

Featured Characters:

• Benito Mussolini

Supporting Characters:

• Adolf Hitler

Antagonists:

• King Victor Emmanuel
• Marshal Pietro Badoglio
• General Molinero
• Allied Armed Forces
• German Armed Forces

Locations:

• Europe
• Mediterranean Sea

Notes

• Blackhawk:
  • One of the Grumman XF5F Skyrockets is now equipped with a rear turret, where Chop Chop mans the heavy machine gun. This modification is not seen again afterward.
  • Blackhawk gets shot down, for at least the fourth time.
  • Blackhawk speaks Japanese.
  • Blackhawk is out of action for several weeks, while he recuperates from his torture ordeal, after the mystery prisoner's super strength drug wears off. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
• Death Patrol
  • Hank, who was absent from last issue, is present in this one. Jackie is still missing.
• PT Boat
  • Perry is still an Ensign and Paul is still a Lieutenant
  • Paul is hospitalized again.
• Secret War News
  • "This is an actual story based upon inside facts gathered from U.S.N. Information Bureaus."
  • At this story's end, Mussolini is still alive but under arrest.
• The Sniper :
  • Suratai makes his third appearance. No other adversary of the Sniper has even made a second.
  • He apparently dies at the end of this story, but the closing blurb raises the question of his return. He is last seen, alive and at large, in a canyon which is then flooded with poison gas.
• Also featured in this issue of Military Comics were:
  • Johnny Doughboy by Bernard Dibble
  • "Heart of a Correspondent" (text story)

Trivia

• Jack Cole signs his Death Patrol art as "Jack Cole." Last issue he signed it as "Ralph Johns."

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Military Comics series

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