Modern Comics Vol 1 69

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Blackhawk: "Murder From The Clouds"
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Modern Comics Vol 1 #69
January, 1948
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Reed Crandall
Blackhawk: "Murder From The Clouds"
Pencilers	Reed Crandall
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Editors	George E. Brenner
Torchy: "In the Big House"
Writers	Bill Ward
Pencilers	Bill Ward
Inkers	Bill Ward
Dogtag: "Dogtag the Scientist"
Writers	Bart Tumey
Pencilers	Bart Tumey
Inkers	Bart Tumey
Letterers	Bart Tumey
Ezra: "The Hypnotist"
Writers	Harry Sahle
Pencilers	Harry Sahle
Inkers	Harry Sahle
Choo Choo: "The Mysterious Mansion of Mr. Banks"
Writers	Gill Fox
Pencilers	Gill Fox
Inkers	Gill Fox
Will Bragg: "Bragg the Casanova"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
Previous Issue	Modern Comics # 68
Next Issue	Modern Comics # 70

A jet job! I can turn inside him but he'll get me on the straight-away!

— Blackhawk, in his Grumman XF5F Skyrocket

Modern Comics #69 is an issue of the series Modern Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1948.

Appearing in Blackhawk: "Murder From The Clouds"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Carnage (Single appearance; dies)
  • his large crew

Other Characters:

• Dick Grayson, Trans-Globe Airlines CEO (Single appearance; dies)
• Johnny, pilot (Dies)
• Smitty, co-pilot (Dies)
• Strato-Liner passengers
• Pamela Grayson, Dick's daughter

Locations:

• Trans-Globe Airlines HQ
• Blackhawk Island

Items:

• Carnage's Neutron Ray antiaircraft weapons

Vehicles:

• Super Strato-Liner (damaged, captured)
• two more captured Strato-Liners
• Carnage's Submersible Aircraft Carrier. (Destroyed)
• Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets (one destroyed, four abandoned)
• Carnage's Jet Fighter
  

Appearing in Torchy: "In the Big House"

Featured Characters:

• Torchy Todd

Supporting Characters:

• Dickie
  

Appearing in Dogtag: "Dogtag the Scientist"

Featured Characters:

• Ex- Pvt. Dogtag
  

Appearing in Ezra: "The Hypnotist"

Featured Characters:

• Ezra Jones
  

Appearing in Choo Choo: "The Mysterious Mansion of Mr. Banks"

Featured Characters:

• Choo Choo LaMoe

Supporting Characters:

• Cherry Lane
  

Appearing in Will Bragg: "Bragg the Casanova"

Featured Characters:

• Will Bragg

Notes

• This is the last issue of MODERN COMICS on which the blurb "FORMERLY MILITARY COMICS" appears above the title on the cover.
• This issue's Blackhawk villain flies a jet fighter into combat versus Blackhawk's Grumman Skyrocket, and wins.
  • This is the second series of aerial combats between a 1941-model fighter bomber and a post-WWII-model fighter.
  • Four more Grumman Skyrockets are abandoned aboard the villain's Submersible Aircraft Carrier, which is then sunk, as the Blackhawks fly the rescued civilians, and captured villain crewmen, to safety in the recaptured airliners.
  • Blackhawk is shot down for the fourteenth time.
  • Blackhawk gets knocked out with a blow to the head with a rifle butt; it's his twenty-fifth concussion.
  • Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
• We are never told how Pamela Grayson managed to find Blackhawk Island, let alone reach it, undetected, and surprise the team in their barracks.
• Also appearing in this issue of Modern Comics were:
  • Prudence by Michael Senich
  • Blackhawk: "Blackhawk Plays Hawk" (text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Modern Comics series
• Images from Modern Comics Vol 1 69

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