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"Blackhawk: "King Cobra"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Quote1 Here's our chance to slip outa sight while those guys are pre-occupied! Quote2
Slim Shell, who hasn't been seen since.

Military Comics #19 is an issue of the series Military Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1943.

Synopsis for Blackhawk: "King Cobra"


Appearing in Blackhawk: "King Cobra"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Farmer
  • Hausfrau (Dies)

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • RAF Hawker fighters (some are destroyed)
  • Luftwaffe Messerschmitt fighters (some are destroyed)
  • 6 Blackhawk Grumman XF5F Skyrockets


Synopsis for Shot and Shell: "Idiots on Ice"

Shot and Shell crash their plane in the ocean, they're not sure where, but it's way up north. It turns out that they're in German territory, and have to do some escaping, on skis, from a squad of riflemen. They cause enough slapstick commotion that the local German garrison is distracted while a team of Norwegian Patriot Commandos raid the outpost. They hook up with the withdrawing commando team.

Appearing in Shot and Shell: "Idiots on Ice"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Norwegian Patriot Commandos

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • airplane (Destroyed)
  • Norwegian Patriot Commando Boat

Synopsis for Sniper: "The Flying Battleship"


Appearing in Sniper: "The Flying Battleship"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Luftwaffe
    • Captain Hunz (Dies)
    • his aviators: Fritz, others (Dies)

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • German 6-engine high-altitude long-range "Flying Battleship" aircraft (Destroyed)
  • Sniper's fighter plane (lost)
  • Formation of Allied Flying Fortresses (Destroyed)
  • RAF fighter planes

Synopsis for Private Dogtag: "Orphans From Slovania"


Appearing in Private Dogtag: "Orphans From Slovania"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Sergeant Roarigan

Other Characters:

  • Slovanian Orphans

Locations:

Synopsis for PT Boat: "Island Incident"


Appearing in PT Boat: "Island Incident"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • PT Squadron Commander (not yet named)
  • PT Boat Crew

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Jean, Nurse
  • Likota, Chief
    • Island Tribe

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • at least 4 U.S. PT Boats
  • Japanese Landing Craft (one destroyed)
  • at least 3 U.S. Medium Bombers

Synopsis for Pacific Patrol: "The Sharpshooter"


Appearing in Pacific Patrol: "The Sharpshooter"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • flight of Japanese Dive Bombers (one destroyed)

Synopsis for Secret War News: "U.S. Fliers Raid Germany"

(Nonfiction account of U.S. 8th Air Force's first raid on Nazi Germany)

Appearing in Secret War News: "U.S. Fliers Raid Germany"

Characters:

  • Captain Charles C. Kegelman
    • his bomber crew: Lt. Dorton, Sgt. Cunningham, Sgt. Golay
  • General Dwight Eisenhower (Cameo)

Antagonists:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • 12 U.S. medium bombers

Synopsis for Sailor Danny: "The Parrot and the Peril"


Appearing in Sailor Danny: "The Parrot and the Peril"

Featured Characters:

  • Sailor Danny

Notes

  • Blackhawk:
    • Olaf mentions Tondeleyo, the mysterious woman from Military Comics #14 who sapped the Blackhawks' will to fight, though her name is misspelled "Tondelyo". Then again, Olaf speaks with a pretty thick accent, and that could just be his way of saying "Tondeleyo."
    • Blackhawk gets shot down, for the third time.[1] He also crashes, for the ninth time. Over the course of his long combat career, Blackhawk survived at least twenty-two aircraft crashes.[2] Being a Blackhawk is dangerous.
    • King Cobra is not thought to be related to or affiliated with the Communist King Cobra of 1952,[3] nor of the female pirate Cobra of 1948.[4]
  • First issue for Fred Guardineer as writer/artist on Pacific Patrol, which now contracts back to one page.
    • No claim is made about this story being true.
  • First issue for Fred Guardineer as writer/artist on Secret War News, replacing Al McWilliams.
    • "This is an actual story based upon inside facts gathered from U.S.N. Information Bureaus."
    • Maybe so, but Wikipedia's article on this raid says 6 bombers, vice 12, went on the raid, and that these bombers were borrowed from the RAF. Six bombers went in and three came back, including Capt. Kegelman's plane, which was very badly damaged.
  • Last issue for Shot and Shell by Klaus Nordling.
    • We are not told how or why Shot and Shell are in the Arctic area, or where they got that airplane that they crash into the Arctic Ocean.
    • Sam and Slim are last seen, with their new Norwegian friend, paddling an ice floe, towards a Norwegian patriot guerrilla boat.
  • The Sniper still has a secret lair in the Eiffel Tower, first seen Military Comics #14. Before that, he simply roved.
    • He also now has a fighter plane, which he keeps hidden, in or very near to Paris. This fighter plane was left atop Captain Hunz's Flying Battleship when it was destroyed.
  • Also featured in this issue of Military Comics were:
    • Johnny Doughboy by Bernard Dibble
    • Blackhawk: "The Hawk and the Dragon" (text story)



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