Cover: Chuck Cuidera & Bill Smith
PS Artbooks Softee: Military Comics #1
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This softcover volume collects early issues of Military Comics, the Quality Comics anthology that introduced the Blackhawk Squadron. Featuring the wartime adventures of the multinational team led by Blackhawk, alongside characters like Chop-Chop, Miss America (Joan Dale), and other Golden Age heroes, this PS Artbooks edition preserves the original stories and art from the 1940s series.
Contains 36 stories
The Origin of Blackhawk
Jack (Blackhawk's brother, introduction, death)Connie (Blackhawk's sister, introduction, death)Ann (Red Cross nurse, unidentified by name in this story, named in issue #3)one unnamed captured soldierCaptain von Tepp (Nazi villain, introduction, death)Captain von Kreck (Nazi villain, introduction, presumably killed)Nazis (villains, many die)
Flying with the Red Dragon
Loops McCann (introduction)Banks Barrows (introduction)Gen. Cheng [the Red Dragon] (introduction)the Chinese (villains, some die)
Origin of the Blue Tracer
Captain William "Wild Bill" Dunn (introduction)Private Boomerang Jones (introduction)the M'Bujies (villains, introduction for all, some die)
Episode with a Goat
Archie Atkins (introduction)Jack Bailey (introduction)Achmed (introduction)Billy (a goat, introduction)Major Douglas (introduction)
Enlisting the Hard Way
Colonel Sam Shot (introduction)Slim Shell (introduction)Herr von Slobben (villain, Nazi military attache)
The Coming of the Yankee Eagle
Jerry Noble (introduction)Sam [the Yankee Eagle] (an eagle, introduction)Senator Noble (Jerry's father, introduction)Captain WebbChalkyNazi spies (villains)
Origin of the Death Patrol
Death Patrol [Del Van DyneButch O'KeefePeeweeHankSlick WardGramps] (introductions and origins for all)the Nazis (villains, some die)
Untitled story
O'Rourke (former Brooklyn taxi driver)
Untitled story
unnamed FBI Chief InspectorMr. Grost (villain, factory owner)
Sink the Kaiser Adolf
Capt. Foghorn (introduction, origin)Bob Wayne (introduction, origin)Dick Martin (introduction, origin)Freckles [Marmaduke Van Weyden] (introduction, origin)Captain von Marz (villain)the Nazis (villains)
The Coward Dies Twice
English pilot named Walt (introduction, death)unnamed doctorunnamed French beggerNazis (villains, some die)
Surprise Attack
Back to Flight School
Untitled story
Hugo Wolsak
The Boobs in the Bomber
The Von Weissman Affair
Jerry NobleSam (an eagle)Senator NobleQueen (introduction, a puma)Kurt von Weissmann (villain)
The Battle of Bordeaux
The Death Patrol [Del Van DyneButchHankSlick WardGrampsStoney Rock (introduction, death)]
Message in a Mirage
Captain William "Wild Bill" DunnPrivate Boomerang Jones
British Mystery Squad Lands on Invasion Coast in Secret Mission
The Doomed Battalion!
Ann (Red Cross nurse last seen in #1, named here)Maxim (freedom fighter, death)Markov (traitor, death)Captain Schroeder (Nazi villain, death)unnamed Nazi General (villain, death)Nazis (villains, many die)
Battle near the Burma Road
Light in the Fog
School Children Defeat Hitler
The Noah's Ark Destroyer
Jerry NobleSam (an eagle)
The City of Stranded Men
Adolf Hitler (villain)
Battle at Benghazi
The Stratosphere Bombs
Death Patrol [GrampsSlick (death)Del Van DykeHankButchZazzy (introduction)]Emil
Desert Death
The Black Tigress [Edda Heimat] (Nazi villain, introduction, death)unnamed hairdresser (Nazi villain)Mueller (Nazi villain)Nazis (villains, some die)
Trap for the Blue Tracer
Bill DunnBoomerang JonesHerr GaulieterNada (first appearance, villain)
Saving the Columbia
Two Freaks and the Greeks
Sam ShotSlim Shell
Untitled story
Tim Healy (Joan's boss)
The Fiddler and the Ape
Jerry NobleSam (an eagle)
The Five-Point Invasion of Britain
The Death Patrol [Del Van DyneGrampsHankButch (death)ZazzyChief Chuck-a-Lug (introduction)]
H. M. S. Barracuda
Skiff Wilkins (first appearance, only appearance)Heinrich Himmler (villain)
Bismarck Sunk
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Cast · 14 characters
Full credits
writer Will Eisner
writer Bob Powell
artist, inker Chuck Cuidera
letterer Sam Rosen
cover pencils, inks Chuck Cuidera
cover pencils, inks Bill Smith
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