Modern Comics Vol 1 77

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Blackhawk: "The Beast Men"
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Modern Comics Vol 1 #77
September, 1948
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Reed Crandall
Blackhawk: "The Beast Men"
Pencilers	Reed Crandall
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Editors	George E. Brenner
Dogtag: "Annual Twenty-Mile Race to Coleville"
Writers	Bart Tumey
Pencilers	Bart Tumey
Inkers	Bart Tumey
Torchy: "The Man from Saturn Gig"
Writers	Bill Ward
Pencilers	Bill Ward
Inkers	Bill Ward
Will Bragg: "Tiger Hunt II"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
Ezra: "A Way with Women"
Writers	Harry Sahle
Pencilers	Harry Sahle
Inkers	Harry Sahle
Choo Choo: "The Bumbling Tumbler"
Writers	Gill Fox
Pencilers	Gill Fox
Inkers	Gill Fox
Previous Issue	Modern Comics # 76
Next Issue	Modern Comics # 78

Before ze sleep-time, let us sing ze songs, mes amis!

— Andre

Modern Comics #77 is an issue of the series Modern Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1948.

Appearing in Blackhawk: "The Beast Men"

Narrator:

• Blackhawk

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Gant Martek (Dies)
  • Grombo (Dies)

Other Characters:

• Luke Martek (Dies)
• Avery Martek (Dies)
• Winston Martek (Dies)
• neanderthalish beast men

Locations:

• Luke Martek's workshop in Arizona
• Avery Martek's workshop in the Gobi Desert of China
• Winston Martek's workshop in the Sahara Desert of North Africa
• Gant Martek's workshop in Fire Mountain Country, below the Equator, in the Andes of South America
  • Ruined Inca Temple
• Blackhawk Island in the Pacific Ocean

Items:

• Martek Brothers' geothermal machinery (Destroyed)

Vehicles:

• Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets
  • equipped with Ray-Finding Receivers
    

Appearing in Dogtag: "Annual Twenty-Mile Race to Coleville"

Featured Characters:

• Dogtag
  

Appearing in Torchy: "The Man from Saturn Gig"

Featured Characters:

• Torchy Todd
  

Appearing in Will Bragg: "Tiger Hunt II"

Featured Characters:

• Will Bragg
  

Appearing in Ezra: "A Way with Women"

Featured Characters:

• Ezra Jones
  

Appearing in Choo Choo: "The Bumbling Tumbler"

Featured Characters:

• Choo Choo LaMoe

Supporting Characters:

• Cherry Lane

Notes

• Published by Comic Magazines.
• Blackhawk breaks the Fourth Wall and begins to narrate the first story.
  • Andre and Olaf join in the retelling. But by the end of page two, this device simply ends and the narration returns to normal.
  • The Grumman Skyrockets are equipped with ray-finding receivers, which detect murmurs in the local radiation.
  • In the 6th panel of the 3rd page, Chuck straps on a side-arm as the team goes into action. Usually the Blackhawks' handguns are concealed, but they almost always have some.
  • At the end of this story, Gant Martek's geothermal power machinery is abandoned, intact, for reputable scientists to find and develop. Also the tribe of cave men, minus Grombo, still live in the vicinity of the ruined temple.
• Also appearing in this issue of Modern Comics were:
  • Blackhawk: "The Century Powder" (text story)
  • Skipper

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Modern Comics series
• Images from Modern Comics Vol 1 77

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