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Issue Details

Issue #71
Published December 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Al Grenet

Cover Details

Genre adventure; war
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Chuck Cuidera?

10 page Blackhawk story "The Man Who Could Defeat Blackhawk"

Characters O: Blackhawk (retold in detail; Blackhawk is i.d.'d as an American, Hendrickson as a German); several Commies impersonate Von Tepp
Genre adventure; war
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Chuck Cuidera

4 page Chop Chop story "Now smile for the birdie"

Synopsis Chop Chop gets his photo taken so he can send it to his girlfriend in China. It gets dropped in the Post Office, put up over a wanted poster and Chop Chop thinks he is wanted by the police.
Genre humor
Script Paul Gustavson?
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson
Notes When reprinted in #71 the last page is removed and the last panel of page 4 is re-lettered. Original dialogue "He sure moves fast for an old geezer! Wait a minute! He's no old geezer! His beard's coming off! Maybe he's a spy or something! I'm going after him!" New dialogue "Hey, Mister!" and the policeman thinks "All right, fella, if you don't want to pick up your change it's hour business" and Chop Chop thinking "Me never take another picture!". Last page of the original story has Chop Chop being taken in by the police and recognized as a member of the Blackhawks.
Reprinted From Blackhawk (Quality, 1944 series) #39 (with alterations, see notes)

7 page Blackhawk story "Lost Horizon of Terror"

Characters V: Mur (I, D)
Genre adventure; war
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Chuck Cuidera

1 page text story "The Human Reptile"

Characters Blackhawk; V: Mordred (last in issue #42)
Letters Typeset
Reprinted From Modern Comics (Quality, 1945 series) #101

7 page Blackhawk story "The Red Tiger"

Characters V: Stranus (I)
Genre adventure; war
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Chuck Cuidera