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Synopsis

Warsaw, Poland 1939. The Nazis are massing to rout the Polish Air Force, the only obstacle to their victory over Poland, and are being led by the Nazi commander, Captain von Tepp. However, in his attack, the brother and sister of a lone survivor are killed, and this survivor, later to become The Blackhawk, vows to hunt down von Tepp and make him pay personally for their deaths.

Notes

Reprinted from

• Military Comics #1

Reprinted in

• Secret Origins #6
• America at War: The Best of DC War Comics #[nn]
• Blackhawk #7
• Flashback #5
• Millennium Edition: Military Comics No. 1 #[nn]
• The Blackhawk Archives #1
• Gwandanaland Comics #79
• Gwandanaland Comics #125
• Gwandanaland Comics #126
• Gwandanaland Comics #127
• Gwandanaland Comics #132
• Gwandanaland Comics #225
• Gwandanaland Comics #815
• Gwandanaland Comics #821
• America at War: The Best of DC War Comics #[nn]
• DC Goes to War #[nn]
• Gwandanaland Comics #3151
• PS Artbooks Softee: Military Comics #1
• PS Artbooks Softee: Blackhawk #1

Credits

Script

Will Eisner, Bob Powell, Fred Guardineer, Klaus Nordling, John Stewart, Jack Cole, Tex Blaisdell, Dick French, Elmer Wexler, Dick Scopes, Henry Kiefer

Pencils

Will Eisner, Fred Harman, Chuck Cuidera, Bob Powell, Fred Guardineer, Harry Campbell, Klaus Nordling, Bill Smith, Jack Cole, Tex Blaisdell, Dick French, Elmer Wexler, Henry Kiefer

Inks

Will Eisner, Fred Harman, Chuck Cuidera, Bob Powell, Fred Guardineer, Klaus Nordling, Bill Smith, Jack Cole, Tex Blaisdell, Dick French, Elmer Wexler, Henry Kiefer

Letters

Fred Guardineer, Tex Blaisdell, Dick French

Editor

Will Eisner

Art assist, see notes

Gill Fox

See note #1

Bob Powell, Sam Rosen

See notes

Frank Frollo

Characters

• Blackhawk
• Baker
• Hendrickson
• Olaf
• Zeg
• Boris
• Stanislaus
• Andre
• Chuck
• Miss America
• Joan Dale

Other printings & variants