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BLACKHAWK #50

Cover Date: March 1952
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Reed Crandall


Story: "The Killer Shark" (10 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsReed Crandall
InksChuck Cuidera
EditingAl Grenet

Feature Character(s):

Blackhawk
Blackhawks:
Stanislaus
Hendrickson
Olaf
Chop-Chop
Andre
Chuck

Supporting Character(s):

Villain(s):

Killer Shark and his crew (first appearance for all; raid small town brutally; appearantly dies; next in issue #70))

Location(s):

Kamard (first appearance; a European city)


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Feature: "Origins of the Blackhawks" (1 Pages)


Credits:

Bill Ward (art)
George Brenner (edits)

Feature Character(s):

Blackhawks

Comment(s):

Relates origins of Blackhawk (as an American instead of a Pole) and Hendrickson (as an escapee of a Nazi concentration camp)

Feature Reprinted in:

Blackhawk #93 (October 1955)
Blackhawk #107

 

Second Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingAl Grenet

Feature Character(s):

Chop-Chop

Villain(s):

Cattle Rustlers (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

American Southwest

Story Reprinted in:

Blackhawk #86 (March 1955)


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Third Story: "The Lost Express" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtBill Ward
EditingAl Grenet

Feature Character(s):

Blackhawk
Blackhawks:
Stanislaus
Hendrickson
Olaf
Chop-Chop
Andre
Chuck

Villain(s):

Premier Lastin (first appearance; a dictator of Brovia; a small European country; attempts to declare war on a neighboring country; deposed)
Mala (first appearance; his beautiful assistant)

Location(s):

Prenla and Brovia (first appearance; two tiny European nations)


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Fourth Story: "The Flying Octopus!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtBill Ward
EditingAl Grenet

Feature Character(s):

Blackhawk
Blackhawks:
Stanislaus
Hendrickson
Olaf
Chop-Chop
Andre
Chuck

Villain(s):

Corvik and his crew (first appearance for all; creates a large spherical flying machine that ejects stun gas through its tentacles; destroyed)

Location(s):

Blackhawk Island
Washington, DC


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