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"Blackhawk: "Dungeon of Doom"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Quote1 They never hit me! I knew you'd be all right, once you got the feel of a boat under your hands again! So I faked that little act! Was I good? Quote2
Ensign Perry Tobias

Military Comics #28 is an issue of the series Military Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1944.

Synopsis for Blackhawk: "Dungeon of Doom"


Appearing in Blackhawk: "Dungeon of Doom"

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Other Characters:

  • Old Man of the Dungeon (Dies)

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Items:

  • unnamed prisoner's box of super strength pills

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Synopsis for Death Patrol: "The Floating Island"

Members of the Death Patrol are flying over the Pacific and are captured by the Japanese, who lured them in using a pretty woman as bait.

Appearing in Death Patrol: "The Floating Island"

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  • Death Patrol's unique compact warplanes
  • Japanese Floating Island

Synopsis for Sniper: "The Valley of Death"


Appearing in Sniper: "The Valley of Death"

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  • his band of Guerrillas

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Other Characters:

  • American Flier (Dies)

Locations:

  • Philippines
    • Sniper's Retreat, remote crag
    • Burzai, on the path to the Valley
    • Valley of Death, between two sheer cliffs
      • camouflaged factory building

Items:

  • Japanese Gas

Vehicles:

  • Japanese light bomber

Synopsis for Private Dogtag: "The Courage Serum"


Appearing in Private Dogtag: "The Courage Serum"

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Synopsis for PT Boat: "This is a Story of Courage"


Appearing in PT Boat: "This is a Story of Courage"

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Supporting Characters:

  • MTB Squadron Six
  • PT Squadron Commander (not yet named)

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Locations:

  • South Pacific Ocean
    • U.S. Naval Base
      • Hospital
      • MTB-6 base
    • Rejavi Island
    • Kybar Island

Vehicles:

  • U.S. PT Boats (some destroyed)
  • Solomon Ish's fleet of small freighters (many destroyed)
  • Japanese Cruiser (damaged or destroyed)

Synopsis for Pacific Patrol: "The Bombing of Paramushiro"

(nonfiction account of a bombing raid in the Kurile Islands)

Appearing in Pacific Patrol: "The Bombing of Paramushiro"

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  • U.S. B-24 Liberator heavy bombers
  • U.S. B-25 Mitchell medium bombers (10 total bombers lost)
  • Japanese Zero interceptors (10 destroyed)

Synopsis for Secret War News: "The Rise and Fall of Mussolini"

(nonfiction account of the career of Benito Mussolini)

Appearing in Secret War News: "The Rise and Fall of Mussolini"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Adolf Hitler

Antagonists:

  • King Victor Emmanuel
  • Marshal Pietro Badoglio
  • General Molinero
  • Allied Armed Forces
  • German Armed Forces

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Notes

  • Blackhawk:
    • One of the Grumman XF5F Skyrockets is now equipped with a rear turret, where Chop Chop mans the heavy machine gun. This modification is not seen again afterward.
    • Blackhawk gets shot down, for at least the fourth time.[1]
    • Blackhawk speaks Japanese.
    • Blackhawk is out of action for several weeks, while he recuperates from his torture ordeal, after the mystery prisoner's super strength drug wears off. Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
  • Death Patrol
    • Hank, who was absent from last issue, is present in this one. Jackie is still missing.
  • PT Boat
    • Perry is still an Ensign and Paul is still a Lieutenant
    • Paul is hospitalized again.
  • Secret War News
    • "This is an actual story based upon inside facts gathered from U.S.N. Information Bureaus."
    • At this story's end, Mussolini is still alive but under arrest.
  • The Sniper :
    • Suratai makes his third appearance. No other adversary of the Sniper has even made a second.
    • He apparently dies at the end of this story, but the closing blurb raises the question of his return. He is last seen, alive and at large, in a canyon which is then flooded with poison gas.
  • Also featured in this issue of Military Comics were:
    • Johnny Doughboy by Bernard Dibble
    • "Heart of a Correspondent" (text story)

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