Blackhawk #79 is an issue of the series Blackhawk (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1954.
Synopsis for "The Monstrous Destroyer Drill"
Appearing in "The Monstrous Destroyer Drill"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- General Panic (Dies)
- his officers & crew
Locations:
Items:
- Destroyer Drill (or "flying triphammer") (Destroyed)
- (made of indestructible metal)
- (w/ portable man-made chemical cloud)
- (w/ magnetic field defenses that fry jet engines)
Vehicles:
- six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C long-range interceptors
Synopsis for Chop Chop: "Money To Burn"
This story is reprinted from Blackhawk #55.
Chop Chop receives a telegram that a distant relative has died and left everything to him. Chop Chop goes to see the lawyer Wong Fu in Chinatown in America. The lawyer informs him that his relative kept his money in the attic and there is too much to count. Chop Chop checks into the largest suite in the best hotel and throws a large party. As the party is breaking up, the lawyer arrives with the money. Unfortunately, it is old Chinese bank notes, and though there are several large bags, it amounts to less than $100 in US currency. Chop Chop must work in the hotel kitchen to pay the bills.
Appearing in Chop Chop: "Money To Burn"
Featured Characters:
Other Characters:
- Wong Fu
Locations:
- United States of America
- Chinatown
- Chinatown
Synopsis for "The Wolf-Pack"
Appearing in "The Wolf-Pack"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Teutonian Communist Party
- Comrade Jankov, a Herman Goering Impersonator
- Teutonia Nazi Party (supposedly has a million members)
- Comrade Jankov, a Herman Goering Impersonator
- Joseph Stalin (Mentioned only)
- Georgy Malenkov (Mentioned only)
Other Characters:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Human Bomb"
Appearing in "The Human Bomb"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Human Bomb
- two suicide Human Bomb agents
Other Characters:
- General Bolden
Vehicles:
- six Blackhawk Lockheed F-90C long-range interceptors
Notes
- Chop Chop: "Money To Burn" is reprinted from Blackhawk #55, but with the first page heavily re-drawn, by a different artist.
- Destroyer Drill
- Six Blackhawk jets, working in tandem, can manipulate a steel mesh "submarine net" into position and drop it onto a moving target.
- General Panic wears a big red button on his gray uniform, emblazoned with a Hammer And Sickle.
- Blackhawk has a jacket with a built-in helium-inflating gas balloon, for high-altitude aerial escapes.
- Wolf Pack
- Teutonia's President Konrad seems to be based on the real-world West German President, Konrad Adenauer.
- The Impersonator is a great deal more physically fit than the real-world Herman Goering.
- The Blackhawks were sleep-gassed, and the villains passed up the chance to kill or capture them, but got away with the Lend-Lease loot.
- Blackhawk gets head-konked unconscious, with a rifle stock. This is his sixty-fourth concussion.[1]
- The Blackhawk Squadron's distinctive Lockheed F-90 interceptors do not appear in this story.
- Human Bomb
- This 1954 Human Bomb is not the same guy as Roy Lincoln, the super-heroic Human Bomb of the early 1940s.
- This villain's real name is Von Tepp, and his monocle is in his right eye, only now he's a Communist, and not dead, unlike the original Captain von Tepp.
- Also featured in this issue of Blackhawk was:
- "The Reds Died Screaming" (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, Blackhawk #64, Blackhawk #65, Blackhawk #70, Blackhawk #75, thrice in Blackhawk vol 1 78, Blackhawk #79
Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.