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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published April 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing John Beardsley

Cover Details

Genre adventure; war
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall

15 page Blackhawk story "The Thunderer"

Genre adventure; war
Script Bill Woolfolk?
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall

1 page Johnny Doughboy story

Genre Gags
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

9 page Private Dogtag story "World's Most Hated Heel"

Characters Cecil; Adolf Hitler (villain)
Genre humor
Script Bart Tumey
Pencils Bart Tumey
Inks Bart Tumey

10 page Sniper story "The Ghost of the Maginot Line"

Characters Adolf Hitler (villain); The Ghost (first appearance; death)
Genre war; adventure
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

4 page Shot and Shell story "The Bomb Balls of Dr. Murk"

Characters Dr. Murk (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre aviation
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

2 page Atlantic Patrol story "Battle With a U-Boat"

Genre war; navy
Script Al McWilliams
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams

6 page Secret War News story "U.S. Sub Sinks 7 Jap Warships"

Genre war; true
Script Al McWilliams
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams
Notes true story

2 page Blackhawk text story "The Giant of the Air"

Genre adventure; war
Letters typeset
Notes 1st Blackhawk text story

6 page Sailor Danny story "The Sabotaged Potatoes"

Genre humor
Script Art Gates
Pencils Art Gates
Inks Art Gates

9 page P.T. Boat story "The Trail of the Mako Shark"

Genre war; navy
Pencils Andre LeBlanc
Inks Andre LeBlanc