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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published August 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Will Eisner

Cover Details

Genre adventure; war
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

11 page Blackhawk story "The Origin of Blackhawk"

Characters Blackhawk (intro, origin); Blackhawks (Baker named in this story, intro, origin); Capt. Von Tepp (villain, death); Jack Hawk; Connie Hawk (Blackhawk's brother and sister, intro, death)
Genre adventure; war
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Chuck Cuidera
Inks Chuck Cuidera
Notes Blackhawk's civilian name is given as Bart Hawk in BLACKHAWK #242 (Aug-Sept. 1968).
Reprinted in Secret Origins (DC, 1973 series) #6 (January-February 1974); in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5; in America at War: The Best of DC War Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1979 series) #[nn] (October 1979); in Blackhawk (DC, 1989 series) #7

6 page Loops and Banks story "Flying with the Red Dragon"

Characters I: Loops McCann, Banks Barrows; I: Gen. Cheng (the "Red Dragon")
Genre aviation
Script Bob Powell?
Pencils Bob Powell [as Bud Ernest]
Inks Bob Powell
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

5 page Blue Tracer story "Origin of the Blue Tracer"

Characters I: Capt. Wild Bill Dunn; I: the Blue Tracer (his war vehicle); I: Boomerang Jones
Genre war; aviation
Script Fred Guardineer?
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

6 page Archie Atkins story "Episode with a Goat"

Characters I: Archie Atkins, Jack Bailey, Achmed, and Billy (a goat)
Genre war
Pencils Harry Campbell ?
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

4 page Shot and Shell story "Enlisting the Hard Way"

Characters I: Col. Sam Shot, Slim Shell
Genre aviation
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

8 page Yankee Eagle story "The Coming of the Yankee Eagle"

Characters I: Jerry Noble, Sam (an eagle--the Yankee Eagle), Sen. Noble (Jerry's father)
Genre adventure
Pencils John Stewart
Inks John Stewart
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

6 page Death Patrol story "Origin of the Death Patrol"

Characters I & O: Death Patrol (Del Van Dyne, Butch O'Keefe, Peewee (D), Hank, Slick Ward, & Gramps)
Genre war;aviation; humor
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

1 page story "Sabotage"

Genre gag
Script Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Pencils Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Inks Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Notes "bottom 1/4 is ""Camp Capers"" by Lake French"
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

6 page Miss America story "The Origin of Miss America"

Characters I & O: Miss America (Joan Dale; not the Timely Comics character)
Genre superhero
Script Ed Wexler?
Pencils Ed Wexler
Inks Ed Wexler
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

2 page text story "Gone with the Draft"

Script Dick Scopes
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5

9 page Q-Boat story "Sink the Kaiser Adolf"

Characters I & O: Capt. Foghorn, Bob Wayne, Dick Martin, and Freckles (Marmaduke Van Weyden)
Genre war; navy
Script Henry Kiefer?
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #5