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Modern Comics #83 is an issue of the series Modern Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1949.
Synopsis for Blackhawk: "Famine in Samanthia"
Appearing in Blackhawk: "Famine in Samanthia"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Mr. Febre
- Mrs. Malene Febre
- many thugs
Other Characters:
- President of Samanthia
Locations:
- Mediterranean Coast of Europe
Vehicles:
- Blackhawk North American F-86 Sabre Jets
- two US Relief Ships (Destroyed)
- SS Sam Johnston, 3rd relief Ship
- four submarines (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Dogtag: "Miss Quiz Radio Show"
Dogtag appears on a radio quiz show, in a blind panic of stage fright, he accidentally blurts out the right answers and wins a big pile of money. When he emerges from the radio studio, dragging a duffel bag full of cash, two grifters in a big truck are waiting for him. Posing as IRS agents, the con men start to shake down Dogtag. The FBI shows up and arrests them. With them comes a real IRS agent, who shakes down Dogtag even harder than the crooks did.
Appearing in Dogtag: "Miss Quiz Radio Show"
Featured Characters:
- Dogtag (Final appearance)
Antagonists:
- two con men
- IRS agent
Other Characters:
- Miss Quiz
- M.C.
- other contestants
- studio audience
- FBI agents
Vehicles:
- big red truck
Synopsis for Torchy: "The Rickety Airlines Gig"
Torchy briefly works as an airline stewardess, for an extremely sketchy airline company.
Appearing in Torchy: "The Rickety Airlines Gig"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Cannibals
Other Characters:
- Jasper Q. Mones, Rickety Airlines
- Mr. Grones, Rickety Airlines
- Pilot, Rickety Airlines
- Passengers
Locations:
- big city
- Cannibal Island
Vehicles:
- 6-engine deluxe trans-oceanic airliner
Synopsis for Will Bragg: "Floating Oil Company"
Hard pressed by his many creditors, Will Bragg partners up with Honest John Sharpe to form the Floating Oil Company, with himself as president and Sharpe as treasurer. They float an Initial Public Offering of their valuable stock, limiting investors to only $1000 apiece. Then at closing time, the treasurer gathers up all the cash receipts and departs.
Some time later it's learned that the company's "oil well" is under six feet of water, and Honest John Sharpe is missing, so Bragg is arrested for grand larceny, plus almost all his associates now despise him. Effy pays his bail and he's freed in her custody, at which news he tries to lock himself in the jail, but just then it turns out that there IS oil on the company's property. Fire Chief Swenson checked it out and it's real. This story gets into the newspapers. Everybody goes out to the site to look at it, then Honest John shows up with a tale about how, no, this is actually "fools oil", but as an ethical businessman, he offers to buy back everybody's stock at par value. Nobody falls for this, until he doubles his offer. All of Bragg's associates have now doubled their money, and everybody leaves before the clean-up crew arrives from a real oil company, because as it turns out, there was a pipeline leak, upstream from the F.O.Company's property, but don't worry, soon it will be fixed. Bragg ends up looking like a genius, at least according to Effy.
Appearing in Will Bragg: "Floating Oil Company"
Featured Characters:
- Will Bragg
Supporting Characters:
- Mrs. Mahoulahan
- Peters the Barber
- Effy Gissel
- Fire Chief Swenson
- Officer Flannigan
Antagonists:
- Honest John Sharpe (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Gully
Locations:
- Mrs. Mahoulahan's Boarding House
- Barber Shop
- Floating Oil Company Office
- Floating Oil Company Future Drilling Site
Synopsis for Ezra: "The Fireman's Ball"
Appearing in Ezra: "The Fireman's Ball"
Featured Characters:
- Ezra Jones
Supporting Characters:
- Rollo Grant
- Myrna Moore
Antagonists:
- Dean Dilsbury, Jr.
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Dilsbury
- Fire Chief
- Mayor
Locations:
- Manorville High School
Synopsis for Choo Choo: "Broken Dreams"
Appearing in Choo Choo: "Broken Dreams"
Featured Characters:
- Choo Choo LaMoe (Final appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Cherry
Other Characters:
- Sir Frisby Curd
- Pamela Frobisher
Notes
- Blackhawk:
- This is the sixth appearance of the team's North American F-86 Sabres, and so far no character and no caption has mentioned this upgrade. These F-86 Sabres have internal bomb bays and can carry at least two bombs. Conventional Sabre Jets could carry up to 2,000 lb of bombs, but those were attached externally, on the wings.
- Samanthia has a President and a Legislature, with a Minority Bloc that's aligned with the Reds. The capital city has a Capitol building, a waterfront, and a small train station, and much of the architecture resembles New Orleans. Nearby is an Old Castle.
- Mr. & Mrs. Febre are not explicitly identified as Communists, Reds, or Soviet agents, but they do address their underlings as "comrades".
- Blackhawk Squadron kills four more submarines.
- Blackhawk deliberately crashes his F-86 into a speeding torpedo. This is Blackhawk's fourth deliberate plane crash (out of six), his fourteenth lifetime plane crash (out of twenty-two),[1] and his second lost North American jet.[2] Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
- Last issue for Choo Choo by Gill Fox.
- Last issue for Dogtag by Bart Tumey.
- Also featured in this issue of Modern Comics were:
- Fuzzy by Jack Cole
- "The Jet-Propelled Puzzle" (text story, featuring Blackhawk)
See Also
Links and References
- ↑ Military Comics #1 (3 in one story), Military Comics #4 (2 in one story), Military Comics #6, Military Comics #13, Military Comics #14, Military Comics #19, Military Comics #33, Blackhawk #9, Military Comics #39, Modern Comics #61, Modern Comics #83, Modern Comics #91, Blackhawk #64 (2, in two stories), Blackhawk #70, Blackhawk #80, Blackhawk #81, Blackhawk #83, & Blackhawk #88
- ↑ Modern Comics #81 & Modern Comics #83
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