That's what betrayed him, sir! That shooting was a staged fake! I knew that the moment I saw these wads from blank shells on the ground! 
Blackhawk #63 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1953.
Synopsis for "The Attack To End the World"
Appearing in "The Attack To End the World"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Kalmut, "envoy from a distant planet" (First appearance) (Dies)
- his landing party
- his space ship crew
Other Characters:
- United World President
- United World Council (one dies)
Locations:
- United World Headquarters
- surrounding city (catastrophically damaged)
- Blackhawk Island (all structures destroyed)
Items:
- Blackhawk Island's fully automated anti-aircraft weapon (fires atomic shells)
Vehicles:
- eight or more Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs (Destroyed)
- Kalmut's "Sky Monster" Space Ship
Synopsis for Chop Chop: "Escape from Ughastan"
Chop-Chop gets duped into eloping with the beautiful princess of Ughastan, risking the wrath of her head-chopping daddy the Sultan. Upon escaping the palace and the capital city, and being flown to distant Manoa Island, she immediately dumps Chop Chop and hooks up with her real boyfriend.
Appearing in Chop Chop: "Escape from Ughastan"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Sultan of Ughastan
Other Characters:
- Princess of Ughastan
- Princess's Boyfriend
Locations:
- Ughastan, in Asia
- Manoa Island
Vehicles:
- Chop Chop's Touring Airplane
Synopsis for "The Flying Buzz-Saws"
Appearing in "The Flying Buzz-Saws"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Madame Jade (Single appearance)
- her pirate crew
- Red Chinese Navy
Other Characters:
Locations:
- South China Coast
- South China Sea
Items:
- Red rocket-propelled Flying Buzz Saws
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk Lockheed F-90Cs (one destroyed)
- Red Chinese Battleship (Destroyed)
- Chinese Sampan
- Chinese Junk (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "Blackhawk Loses His Wings"
Appearing in "Blackhawk Loses His Wings"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Doctor Ganso, prominent surgeon
- foreign-sponsored Balvanian revolutionary saboteurs
- Balvanian Badgers, guerrilla group
Locations:
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk Lockheed F-90s
Notes
- The Attack To End the World:
- United World Headquarters resembles United Nations Headquarters, but is located in an unidentified city (which looks like London, vaguely). U-W has a President.
- An artificially-generated tidal wave slams into the city and smashes some big buildings; thousands die. It's an extremely brazen act of war. And at the end of the story, the supposedly extraterrestrial alien villain is exposed as a Soviet fake. Afterward this is never mentioned again.
- Blackhawk Jets can be controlled from the ground via Blackhawk belt radios. Six of these planes are destroyed in this story, but the team has at least two more in an underground hangar.
- So after this story, the Reds know how to build gigantic, nearly invulnerable, 2000 mph spaceships, capable of hovering motionless and silent, with super-advanced weapons, and they also now know the location of Blackhawk Island. It took an atomic antiaircraft shell to destroy this vessel. It is not known how many more of these ships the Russians built, but none has been seen since this incident.
- Kalmut also equipped his troops with deadly ray guns; these have also not been seen since.
- Chop Chop: Escape from Ughastan
- Most of this story's plot is re-used from the Chop Chop story in Blackhawk #37, in which the elopers slipped away to "Manaloa Island".
- The Chinese-built rocket-powered Flying Buzz Saws were fast and agile enough to destroy a Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C, and powerful enough to sever a battleship in half.
- One more Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C is destroyed. Stan is shot down for the first time.Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
- Blackhawk Loses His Wings:
- Blackhawk gets a shrapnel wound to his head, and soon afterward blacks out. No metal was lodged in his head, but that's his fifty-sixth concussion.[1]Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
- The foreign-sponsored "revolutionaries" undermining Balvania are never identified as "Communists" or "Reds".
- Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was: "Bombs Away" (text story)
See Also
Links and References
- ↑ Military Comics #7, Military Comics #30, Military Comics #36, Military Comics #39, Military Comics #41, Military Comics #42, Modern Comics #47, Blackhawk #11, Modern Comics #51, Modern Comics #52, Modern Comics #53, Blackhawk #12, Modern Comics #54, Blackhawk #13, Modern Comics #56, Blackhawk #14, Modern Comics #60, twice in Blackhawk #15, Blackhawk #16, thrice in Blackhawk #17, Modern Comics #67, Modern Comics #69, Modern Comics #71, Modern Comics #73, twice in Blackhawk #21, Modern Comics #78, twice more in Blackhawk #22, Blackhawk #23, Modern Comics #84, Modern Comics #89, Blackhawk #27, Modern Comics #91, Modern Comics #93, Blackhawk #31, Modern Comics #98, Blackhawk #32, Blackhawk #35, Blackhawk #42, Blackhawk #43, Blackhawk #45, Blackhawk #46, Blackhawk #48, Blackhawk #50, Blackhawk #51, twice in Blackhawk #52, twice in Blackhawk #57, Blackhawk #58, Blackhawk #62, Blackhawk #63
Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.