Modern Comics Vol 1 78

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Blackhawk: "Madame Butterfly"
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Modern Comics Vol 1 #78
October, 1948
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Everett M. Arnold
Cover Artists	Reed Crandall
Blackhawk: "Madame Butterfly"
Writers	William Woolfolk
Pencilers	Reed Crandall
Inkers	Chuck Cuidera
Editors	George E. Brenner
Torchy: "The Reform Party Gig"
Writers	Bill Ward
Pencilers	Bill Ward
Inkers	Bill Ward
Dogtag: "Wanted For Something"
Writers	Bart Tumey
Pencilers	Bart Tumey
Inkers	Bart Tumey
Will Bragg: "Martha Minty and Slippery Jones"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Letterers	Paul Gustavson
Ezra: "Painting the Garage"
Writers	Harry Sahle
Pencilers	Harry Sahle
Inkers	Harry Sahle
Choo Choo: "On Stetson's Ranch"
Writers	Gill Fox
Pencilers	Gill Fox
Inkers	Gill Fox
Previous Issue	Modern Comics # 77
Next Issue	Modern Comics # 79

He weel boast no more! He is gone where ze truth of everyone is known!

— Andre

Modern Comics #78 is an issue of the series Modern Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1948.

Appearing in Blackhawk: "Madame Butterfly"

Featured Characters:

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

Antagonists:

• Madame Butterfly (Single appearance; dies)
  • Caterpillar Legion (most or all die)

Other Characters:

• prospector (Dies)

Locations:

• Pacific Ocean
  • Islands, partly unexplored
    • resort island w/ hotel (signs are in Spanish or Portuguese)
    • Jowali, island w/ Government Office
    • island w/ Corundum deposits
  • Blackhawk Island

Items:

• Madame Butterfly's "Cocoon of Death" fungus

Vehicles:

• four Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets w/ pontoon landing gear (one destroyed)
• three-masted derelict sailing ship w/ dead crew
• five or more Caterpillar Legion Planes, jets (four destroyed)
  

Appearing in Torchy: "The Reform Party Gig"

Featured Characters:

• Torchy Todd
  

Appearing in Dogtag: "Wanted For Something"

Featured Characters:

• Dogtag
  

Appearing in Will Bragg: "Martha Minty and Slippery Jones"

Featured Characters:

• Will Bragg
  

Appearing in Ezra: "Painting the Garage"

Featured Characters:

• Ezra Jones
  

Appearing in Choo Choo: "On Stetson's Ranch"

Featured Characters:

• Choo Choo LaMoe

Supporting Characters:

• Cherry Lane

Notes

• Published by Comic Magazines.
• Madame Butterfly is the widow of the late Mitsamo, Chief of Japanese Secret Intelligence, who died along with Admiral Yamamoto in an American aerial ambush. The Blackhawks "have seen her handiwork in every corner of the world."
• Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
  • One Flying Caterpillar Plane deliberately crashes into Chuck's plane, which also has Stanislaus aboard. This is Chuck's third plane crash, and Stan's second.
  • Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious, for his thirtieth concussion, with a thrown rock.
  • Blackhawk gets another bullet wound, for the sixth time.
• Also appearing in this issue of Modern Comics were:
  • Fuzzy: "Tinkling Bros. Circus" by Jack Cole
  • Blackhawk: "Thunderbird" (text story)

Trivia

• This issue's Blackhawk story is set in an unnamed group of partly unexplored islands in the Pacific Ocean.
  • One island, Jowali, has a government office. The nationality of the government is not identified. Other islands have resorts with hotels. Another island has an unusually rich vein of Corundum deposits.
  • The story's villainess, Madame Butterfly is considered "the most dangerous woman in the East."
  • The vegetation looks tropical, and all of the visible signs in this region are in either Spanish or Portuguese.
  • All of this, together, implies that Jowali, and the other islands in this group, are situated in the South China Sea, somewhere near (or instead of) East Timor, next to Indonesia, and are likely a post-WWII remnant of a Portuguese or Spanish colony. But this implication has not been confirmed, and should not be relied on.
• Some time prior to Hit Comics #6, the Red Bee's original red-and-yellow striped tights went away. Madame Butterfly's pilots apparently stole them, because all of them are wearing red and yellow striped tights.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Modern Comics series
• Images from Modern Comics Vol 1 78

Links and References

Modern Comics #78, Oct 1948

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