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MILITARY COMICS #8

Cover Date: March 1942
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-01-09

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Cover Credits:
Art: Chuck Cuidera (signed)


Story: "The Sunken Island of Death!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDick French
ArtChuck Cuidera
LetteringSam Rosen
EditingWill Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Blackhawk
Blackhawks:
Hendrickson
Olaf
Chop-Chop

Supporting Character(s):

Villain(s):

German Navy (first appearance for all; Captain Gorth named; all die)
Nazis (first appearance for all; many, if not all die)

Location(s):

A small unnamed island in the center of Atlantic shipping lanes (first appearance; destroyed by volcano)

Story Reprinted in:

Blackhawk Archives #1 (2001)


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Feature: "The Song of the Blackhawks" (1 Pages)


Credits:

Dick French (words and music) (script)
Will Eisner (edits)


Comment(s):

This feature is a music sheet of the official Song of the Blackhawks with words and music.


 

Second Story: "Drums of Doom" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryFred Guardineer
ArtFred Guardineer
EditingWill Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Blue Tracer

Supporting Character(s):

Boomerang Jones

Villain(s):

Nazis (General Von Blutt named; a badly wounded Nazi tasked with destroying the Blue Bullet)

Location(s):

Russia


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Third Story: "X of the Underground" (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
EditingWill Eisner

Feature Character(s):

X of the Underground (first appearance; a female saboteur and head of a large underground network of female freedom fighters; often disguised as a man)

Supporting Character(s):

Bob Gray (first appearance; reporter for the New York Globe)

Villain(s):

Nazis
General Reidich (first appearance; a Gestapo officer tasked with finding X)

Location(s):

Occupied Paris, France

Comment(s):

This story probably takes place in the winter of 1941-2.


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Fourth Story: "The Blonde Torch Singer!!!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJohn Stewart
EditingWill Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Yankee Eagle (last appearance)

Villain(s):

Commander (first appearance; a Nazi agent)

Location(s):

Boston, MA


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTed Udall
ArtBernard Klein
EditingWill Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Sniper

Villain(s):

French Minister of War Pierre Ravel (first appearance; sells out his country to the Nazis)
Nazis

Location(s):

Paris, France


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDave Berg
ArtDave Berg
LetteringDave Berg
EditingWill Eisner

Feature Character(s):

Death Patrol:
Del Van Dyne (disguised as Adolf Hitler)
Hank
Chief Chuck-A-Lug
King Hotentot
Boris
Butch
Patchwork Kid

Villain(s):

Nazis (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Mademoiselle from Armentiers (a beautiful French assassin; shoots Del, thinking he was Hitler; joins the Death Patrol)

Location(s):

Berlin, Germany
Occupied France
London, England


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