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Issue: Blackhawk #69 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #69 of 99 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: A Quality Comic PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 07/22/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Published monthly by Comic Magazines, 163 Pratt Street, Meriden, Conn. Executive offices, 578 Summer Street, Stamford, Conn. Editorial and advertising offices, 347 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. Copyright 1953 by Comic Magazines.

The volume number and the on-sale date from the publication date both reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 7, Part 2, Number 2, Periodicals, July-December 1953. Class B periodical, page 204. Copyright registration number B429585.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; then standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Cyclone Terror

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Blackhawk [Blackhawk (and in vignette); Chop Chop (vignette); Olaf (vignette); Hendrickson (vignette); André (vignette); Chuck (vignette); Stanislaus (vignette)]
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Disclose Notes: Credits from the Richard Steinberg interview In Alter Ego (Twomorrows, 1999 series) #32 (January 2004).
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Free! 100 Foreign Stamps and Illustrated Booklet

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover including the indicia.

An advertisement for 100 international stamps from the Garcelon Stamp Co. from Calais, Maine.
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The Cyclone From Hell!

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; "Duke" Pardo [John Pardo] (villain, introduction, death); Doctor Dragos (villain, introduction); unnamed judge; unnamed mafia dons; unnamed warden; unnamed country president; unnamed Pardo soldiers
First Line: This is the story of an American gangster who tried to be a European dictator!
Synopsis: Duke Pardo is expelled from the United States for his crimes back to his unnamed home country. He is contacted by Doctor Dragos who shows him the designs for the Tornado Top. Pardo sees this as a chance to take over the country. After nearly taking over the country, Pardo and his troops are defeated by the Blackhawks. Pardo dies fighting Blackhawk falling out of a crumbling airplane.
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The Amazing Fish Bait in a Tube

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Penciller(s): ? (photographs); ? (illustrations)
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Disclose Notes: An advertisement for Fast-Bite, fish bait in a tube for 98 cents from Illinois Merchandise Mart of Chicago, Illinois.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous, war, western
Character(s): Chop Chop; Twitch Along Staggerty; two unnamed cowboys; Ornery (horse); unnamed train conductor
First Line: But I said if you wanted to be a cow-hand, you'd have to learn to rope a steer!
Synopsis: After seeing a television commercial for the Dowdy Doody Dude Ranch, Chop Chop decides to go there to learn to be a cowboy. When he arrives, two cowboys put him through some rough moments including a ride on the horse Ornery. After being tossed around, Chop Chop and Ornery stop in front of a train causing it to stop. It is lucky they did because the train was approaching a break in the track which would have resulted in a derailment. Ornery runs off and Chop Chop decides to take the train back home as cowboy life is not for him.
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From Content Item: FlagBlackhawk #44 published September 1951
was Cowboy Chop Chop [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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The King of the Iron Men!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; unnamed official; Vorga (villain, introduction); his robots (villains, introduction); Robot X-12 (villain, introduction)
First Line: Weird, fearful, Iron Masters stalked the land!
Synopsis: The nation of Costonya is willing to sell its uranium to the West but needs help in securing the mines. The Blackhawks, guarding the mine, are attacked by the Iron Men who wreck their jets & steal the uranium. Another fight with the Iron Men allows the Blackhawks to track them to the old Costonyan prison. There they confront the King of the Iron Men, Vorga who plans to sell the uranium to the highest bidder. But this is a robot version of Vorga. After a battle with Robot Vorga and Robot X-12, the Blackhawks track down the real Vorga, a towering former circus freak, and beat him in a fight.
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No Clue of Danger

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; Louis [King Louis of Navarro]; Prince Trovino
First Line: Louis, the cafe proprietor...
Synopsis: The Blackhawks protect the former King of Navarro from assassination by Prince Trovino, who abdicated his throne to work as a cafe owner. Trovino wants him dead because he does not believe Louis won't try to return. When Trovino is confronted by the Blackhawks, he is incensed he is being accused of plotting to kill the former king. Chop Chop is the one who figures out that Prince Trovino wiped his own cup to eliminate all traces of his fingerprints, a sign of someone up to no good.
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From Content Item: FlagModern Comics #99 published July 1950
was No Clue of Danger [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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The Conference of the Dictators

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Blackhawk [Blackhawk; Stanislaus; Chuck; Hendrickson; André; Olaf; Chop Chop]; President of the United States (unnamed); Mao Tse-Tung (villain); Georgy Malenkov (villain); Kim Il Sung (villain); Walter Tzbo (villain); Boleslaw Bierut (villain); unnamed submarine commander; unnamed Russian underground members; Russian soldiers (villains
First Line: Key Red Leaders throughout the world converge on the Kremlin...
Synopsis: The President asks the Blackhawks to go to Moscow to find out what the plans are for the conference of world communist leaders. Aided by a United World submarine and members of the Russian Underground, they arrive at the conference but are soon captured. Malenkov decides to show the West a lesson, the Blackhawks are taken to training grounds to be subject to tests of their Chameleon Machine. They overcome the onslaught and able to get the plans for the machine and escape. The Underground gets them to safety and the plans given to the President, denying the other side the weapon.
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Disclose Notes: It was suggested to compare the work here with the stories in Plastic Man (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #41 (May 1953).
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Borrow Money by Mail!

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An advertisement for loaning money through the mail by the State Finance Company of Omaha, Nebraska.
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Boys, Girls, Men, Women!

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Disclose Notes: On the bottom half of the page.

An advertisement to sell religious mottos for display and earn prizes from The FUNman of Chicago, Illinois.
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Giant Beach Ball

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Genres: childrens
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Disclose Notes: And advertisement with comic panels selling a giant beach ball for one dollar by Young Products of Detroit, Michigan.
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Need Extra Spending Money?

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Genres: non-fiction
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An advertisement for selling Stuart Greeting Cards and earning money and prizes from Stuart Greetings, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois.
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Charles Atlas
First Line: Why don't you try to put some weight on?
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

A Charles Atlas advertisement, without the comic strip art, for the body-building system "Dynamic Tension".

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