Modern Comics #74 is an issue of the series Modern Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1948.
Synopsis for Blackhawk: "Captain Squidd"
Appearing in Blackhawk: "Captain Squidd"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Captain Squidd (Apparent Death) (Single appearance)
- his pirate crew: Mawr, others (mostly captured, some die)
Other Characters:
- Chief Engineer Angus McWhistle (Dies)
- Captain Lassiter (Dies)
- other Clementine officers (Dies)
- other Clementine crew
- Captain Corcoran
- his merchant crew: Sparks, others
Locations:
- Pacific Ocean
- piracy scene, at the Equator
- Blackhawk Island
- Squidd's sea-floor submarine base w/ internal dry-dock (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- S.S. Clementine, tramp steamer (Destroyed)
- homeport Liverpool, en route from San Francisco to Australia
- Squidd's Giant Submarine, the Cuttlefish (Destroyed)
- hydraulic pincers on bow for ship demolition
- hull-breaching ram on top for ship boarding
- internal airplane-sized docking airlock
- second tramp steamer (damaged)
- five New Blackhawk Jet Submersible Warplanes (one is destroyed) (Single appearance)
- flies, operates underwater, or can land on surface
- armed w/ oxy-acetylene blowtorch
Synopsis for Dogtag: "Yogi Slogi"
Appearing in Dogtag: "Yogi Slogi"
Featured Characters:
- Dogtag
Synopsis for Torchy: "The Lofty Mountains Gig"
Appearing in Torchy: "The Lofty Mountains Gig"
Featured Characters:
Synopsis for Will Bragg: "Mr. Loafer's Flats"
Appearing in Will Bragg: "Mr. Loafer's Flats"
Featured Characters:
- Will Bragg
Synopsis for Ezra: "Ezra For President"
Appearing in Ezra: "Ezra For President"
Featured Characters:
- Ezra Jones
Synopsis for Choo Choo: "The Football Movie That Fumbled"
Appearing in Choo Choo: "The Football Movie That Fumbled"
Featured Characters:
- Choo Choo LaMoe
Supporting Characters:
- Cherry Lane
Notes
- Blackhawk is at work on "an improved design for our planes," on page 5. Six issues later, the team will upgrade from Grumman XF5F Skyrockets to North American F-86 Sabre jets.
- Also appearing in this issue of Modern Comics were:
- Poodle McDoodle
- Blackhawk: "Conqueror" (text story)
Trivia
- Blackhawk Island has a beach where the pilots sometimes swim for fun.
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Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.
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