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MILITARY COMICS #1
Cover Date: August 1941
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1941-05-02
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Cover Credits:
Art: Will Eisner
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Credits:
| Story | Will Eisner, Bob Powell |
| Art | Chuck Cuidera |
| Lettering | Sam Rosen |
| Editing | Will Eisner |
Feature Character(s):
- Blackhawk (Janos Prohaska; first appearance; a Polish national who becomes an freedom fighter with his crew)
- Blackhawks (first appearance; none identified in this story; Janos' crew of fighter pilots)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Captain Von Tepp (first appearance; a Nazi pilot who kills Jack and Connie; dies)
Other Character(s):
- "Jack" and "Connie" (first appearance; Janos' brother and sister; both die)
- Ann Avery (first appearance; a nurse in occupied Europe, nearly executed by Von Tepp)
Location(s):
- Poland (in 1939)
- Occupied Europe
- Blackhawk Island (first appearance; island headquarters of the Blackhawks, located in the Atlantic Ocean)
Comment(s):
- This story probably occurs before the first mission for MI-5 on May 11, 1940.
Story Reprinted in:
- Secret Origins #6 (January-February 1974)
Credits:
| Story | Fred Guardineer |
| Art | Fred Guardineer |
| Editing | Will Eisner |
Feature Character(s):
- Blue Tracer ("Wild" Bill Dunn; first appearance; an American engineer working with the British; designs a vehicle to defeat the savages)
Supporting Character(s):
- Boomerang Jones (first appearance; an Australian soldier who saves Bill and helps him build a vehicle to fight the
Villain(s):
- Demons of Ras Dashin (first appearance; a jungle warlord; dies)
Location(s):
- Ethiopia
Comment(s):
- Dunn and Jones build the Blue Bullet, a multi-modal vehicle.
Credits:
| Story | John Stewart |
| Art | William Smith |
| Editing | Will Eisner |
Feature Character(s):
- Yankee Eagle (Jerry Noble; first appearance; teen ne'er do well son of a US Senator; uses his talent with animals to aid in recovering a battleship)
Supporting Character(s):
- Sam (first appearance; a male Bald Eagle)
- Senator Walter Q. Noble (first appearance; Jerry's father)
Villain(s):
- Von Weismann and other spies (first appearance for all; take over USS America, a new battleship)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC
- South Atlantic Ocean
Credits:
| Story | Jack Cole |
| Art | Jack Cole |
| Lettering | Jack Cole |
| Editing | Will Eisner |
Feature Character(s):
- Death Patrol:
- Del Van Dyne
- Hank (first appearance)
- Butch (first appearance)
- Peewee (first appearance; dies)
- Slick (first appearance)
- Gramps (first appearance)
Villain(s):
- Von Plump (first appearance; a Nazi officer)
Location(s):
- London, England
- Germany
Credits:
| Art | Elmer Wexler |
| Editing | Will Eisner |
Feature Character(s):
- Miss America (Joan Dale; first appearance;
Villain(s):
- Grost (first appearance; a factory owner working for the Germans)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- Liberty Island
- Newark, NJ