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"Blackhawk: "Colonel Cloud and His Fog of Destruction"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Quote1 I know something about botany ... This wheat looks as if it didn't have enough sunlight! Quote2
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Modern Comics #81 is an issue of the series Modern Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1949.

Synopsis for Blackhawk: "Colonel Cloud and His Fog of Destruction"


Appearing in Blackhawk: "Colonel Cloud and His Fog of Destruction"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Colonel Cloud (First appearance)
    • Vronk, underling (Dies)
    • Cloud's pilots (most or all die)
    • Cloud's troops (fare poorly)

Other Characters:

  • Peter Zell, peasant
  • Jan Zell, peasant, (Dies)
  • Betta Zell
  • Country Doctor
  • Leuchtenberg Minister of Justice
    • Regular Police

Locations:

Items:

  • Cloud-placement equipment (controlled by Leuchtenbergian government)

Vehicles:

  • 7 Blackhawk North American F-86 Sabre Jets (First appearance)
  • 8 or more Leuchtenbergian Fighter Planes, catapult-launched (most or all are destroyed)


Synopsis for Dogtag: "The Van Pess Tutor"


Appearing in Dogtag: "The Van Pess Tutor"

Featured Characters:

Other Characters:

  • previous Tutor
  • B. Phineas Van Pess
  • Homer Van Pess

Synopsis for Torchy: "The Class Reunion Gig"


Appearing in Torchy: "The Class Reunion Gig"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Sophie
  • her 3 mean friends

Other Characters:

  • Miss Framp
  • Principal Allen
  • Ambrose

Synopsis for Will Bragg: "Pig Show"


Appearing in Will Bragg: "Pig Show"

Featured Characters:

  • Will Bragg

Supporting Characters:

  • Gully
  • Fire Chief Swenson
  • Officer Flannigan
  • Effy Gissel
  • Mrs. Mahoulahan

Livestock:

  • Billy Boy, Purebred Hampshire

Other Characters:

  • Mr. Rout, Pig Show Proprietor
  • Lily Belle Lang

Synopsis for Ezra: "The Plot Against Ezra and Myrna"


Appearing in Ezra: "The Plot Against Ezra and Myrna"

Featured Characters:

  • Ezra Jones

Supporting Characters:

  • Rollo Grant
  • Myrna Moore

Antagonists:

  • Dean Dilsbury, Jr.
  • Lois

Other Characters:

  • McKunkle, soda jerk

Locations:

  • Manorville High School

Vehicles:

  • Jones's dilapidated jalopy

Synopsis for Choo Choo: "Maid For Movies"


Appearing in Choo Choo: "Maid For Movies"

Featured Characters:

  • Choo Choo La Moe

Supporting Characters:

  • Cherry

Other Characters:

  • Godfrey Stark, movie star
  • Webster Znif, director

Locations:

Notes

  • First issue for Blackhawk Squadron's new North American F-86 Sabre jets.
    • No dialogue or text mentions the change from the Skyrockets to the Sabres.
    • Blackhawk bails out of his brand new Sabre jet, which then crashes.
    • These warplanes are equipped with extremely advanced remote-control systems, by means of which the pilots actually can bail out, and allow other Blackhawk pilots to guide their planes to a particular destination. In the incident above, there simply was no time to activate the system.
  • Blackhawk knows enough about Botany to detect when a wheat crop has had insufficient sunlight.
  • At this story's end, the government of Leuchtenberg has got a fully operational cloud-placement apparatus, and is expecting bounteous harvests for the foreseeable future. It seems very unlikely that Cloud himself invented this equipment.
  • Torchy Todd graduated from P.S.31 grade school in the class of 1939. She was called "Torchy" in elementary school, too.
  • Also appearing in this issue of Modern Comics were:
    • "Far East Adventure" (text story, featuring Blackhawk)
    • Fuzzy by Jack Cole



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