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:
- Europe
- Leuchtenberg Republic
- extinct volcano
- Leuchtenberg Republic
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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Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.
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