Modern Comics #73
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeModern Comics #73 is an anthology featuring two main stories. "Blackhawk Descends Upon the Saboteurs" follows the military aviator hero confronting enemy saboteurs. "Torchy" depicts the titular character in her studio where she encounters a woman and must navigate a social situation involving mistaken identities and confusion over a cadillac and a friend named Reggie, culminating in comic misunderstandings at a social gathering.
The Blackhawks find themselves falsely accused of sabotage when evidence from their planes surfaces at the scene of a devastating forest fire, forcing them to clear their names while a shadowy enemy continues to strike at America's vital infrastructure. As the team races to uncover the true saboteur behind a wave of attacks on dams, trains, and steel plants, they discover an enemy agent operating in their midst—one with access to their own equipment. With the nation in crisis and their reputation in tatters, the Blackhawks must track down the real culprit before the country tears itself apart from within.
Two con artists spot a fortune when exiled royals from Slombodka gather to mourn their lost emperor—and hatch a scheme to pass off an unsuspecting waiter named Dogtag as the real deal in "The Royal Exiles of Slombodka." But keeping up the impersonation proves trickier than they bargained for, especially when their fake emperor starts behaving nothing like the genuine article. This 1948 humor romp from Modern Comics #73 is a delightful game of mistaken identity that spirals into absolute chaos.
A would-be actress heads to a fancy audition through an employment agency, only to discover that landing the part of a French maid requires speaking actual French—which she doesn't. When she and a fellow job-seeker decide to pose as a married couple to land positions at producer Gregory Velasco's estate, their improvisational skills are put to the test in the kitchen, with increasingly chaotic results. What starts as a scheme to impress their way into movie contracts spirals into a night of culinary disasters that somehow leads to an unexpected turn of fortune.
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Reprinted in Bill Ward's Torchy #1 (1991), Torchy #2 (2009), Men of Mystery Comics #114 (2020), Gwandanaland Comics #1121
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