Unofficial Military Comics Index

MILITARY COMICS #5

Cover Date: December 1941
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1941-10-10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Chuck Cuidera

Story: "The Scavengers!!" (11 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Dick French
Art	Chuck Cuidera
Lettering	Sam Rosen
Editing	Will Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Blackhawk

Blackhawks:

Stanislaus

Hendrickson

Zeg

Olaf

Chop-Chop

Villain(s):

Nazis (first appearance for all)

Red Laura (first appearance; a beautiful Nazi agent, but turns on them, rescuing Blackhawk)

Scavengers (first appearance for all; forced by the Nazis to capture Blackhawk; Garle named)

Location(s):

Oslo, Norway

Story Reprinted in:

Blackhawk Archives #1 (2001)

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Second Story: "The Sniper" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Ted Udall
Editing	Will Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Sniper

Villain(s):

Nazis (General Kruk named)

Herr Schrecht (first appearance; a Gestapo agent)

Location(s):

Occupied Austria

Comment(s):

The Sniper first appears in Austria in 1940.

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Third Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Tom Hickey
Editing	Will Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Miss America

Supporting Character(s):

Tim Healy

Villain(s):

Fifth Columnists (first appearance for all; use a haunted house as a base to steal a submarine)

Location(s):

New England

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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Dave Berg
Art	Dave Berg
Lettering	Dave Berg
Editing	Will Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Death Patrol:

Del Van Dyne

Hank

Gramps

Zazzy (dies)

Chief Chuck-A-Lug (first appearance)

King Hotentot (first appearance; joins the Patrol after Nazis invade his African kingdom)

Villain(s):

Nazis

Location(s):

London, England

Comment(s):

The Patrol begin using brightly colored mini-fighters.

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Fifth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

Art	John Stewart
Editing	Will Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Yankee Eagle

Supporting Character(s):

Sam

Billy (first appearance; a goat)

Villain(s):

Herman Hwnet (first appearance; a trawler captain who lays mines for American ships)

Location(s):

Boston, MA

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Sixth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Fred Guardineer
Art	Fred Guardineer
Editing	Will Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Blue Tracer

Supporting Character(s):

Boomerang Jones

Villain(s):

Nazis

Other Character(s):

Lola Thomas (first appearance; a war correspondent)

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean

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