Blackhawk #36

The Blackhawks answer an urgent call from a neighboring kingdom under aerial bombardment—their peaceful neighbor Khartoor is being devastated by bombing runs from the militaristic nation of Jinnestan, now ruled by the ruthless Tarya since the mysterious disappearance of its honorable leader Gandor Ras. When Blackhawk is shot down over enemy territory during a daring interception, he's captured and thrown into Jinnestan's infamous Prison of Despair, where Tarya intends to break him down and extract the location of the Blackhawks' base. Stripped of support and facing a torturer who knows exactly how to exploit a prisoner's will, Blackhawk must find a way to survive the cruelty designed to make him surrender.

The Air Raiders, modern sky pirates operating sleek jet fighters, strike swift and ruthless against cargo planes carrying precious cargo—but their reign of piracy draws the attention of the Blackhawks, who are hired to hunt them down. Led by the cunning Kate Royle, the Air Raiders have already claimed diamonds, gold, and platinum shipments, leaving the authorities baffled until Blackhawk and his team take to the skies to stop the hijackings. When another Trans-Freight plane becomes the bait in a dangerous confrontation, Blackhawk faces off directly against Royle in a high-stakes aerial battle that will determine who controls the clouds.

When the Sultan of Chichiku summons Chop Chop to receive a great honor, the Blackhawk arrives to discover he's been chosen to marry the Sultan's daughter—a proposition that seems reasonable until he meets the veiled princess. With Chop Chop imprisoned for refusing the match, a sympathetic lady-in-waiting risks everything to help him escape, whisking him away to the tropical island of Manaloa on a daring dash for freedom and romance.

The Blackhawks answer an urgent distress call from a besieged French Foreign Legion fort in North Africa, only to discover that Captain Kropp, the commandant, has orchestrated an elaborate betrayal—replacing the fort's true defenders with disguised Bedouin insurgents. As the team pieces together the treacherous scheme with help from Yvette, a woman caught in Kropp's web of deception, they find themselves trapped and facing impossible odds against a ruthless former Nazi now bent on destroying the Legion from within.