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Issue: Blackhawk #196
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 03/12/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1964 by National Periodical Publications, Inc.

On-sale date from a house advertisement appearing in The Doom Patrol (DC, 1964 series) #87 (May 1964) and this issue's copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S., then standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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A Firing Squad for Blackhawk!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
adventure, war
Colonel Frog
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Miscellaneous
1
132 Pc. Roman Soldiers Set

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Inside front cover.
A Firing Squad for Blackhawk! Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, war
Mr. Cipher (introduction); Sessue Yokomata
The Blackhawks infiltrate the weapons plant of a Japanese scientist based in a South American dictatorship.
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Introduction of Mr. Cipher, liaison for mission assignments from the United Nations.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
You demanded it, and here it is... The Doom Patrol
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Promotional house advertisement for Doom Patrol (DC, 1987 series) #87 (February 1995), "on sale everywhere...March 5th," with cover depicted.
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Blackie the Blackhawks' Mascot
Ha! Ha! I gave the cops the slip.
Blackie unravels a crook's sweater so he'll get cold and surrender.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
war
Captain Storm
Ride a sea-going thunderbolt...
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Promotional house advertisement for Capt. Storm (DC, 1964 series) #1 (May-June 1964), on sale March 12th, with cover depicted.
[A Firing Squad for Blackhawk!] Part 2: Colonel Frog -- Enemy Master of the Blackhawks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, war
Colonel Frog [Sessue Yokomata]; Mr. Cipher
The rest of the Blackhawks discover that the renegade scientist is an old World War II enemy, Colonel Frog. He has captured Blackhawk and has him under his control. Colonel Frog leads a coup against the country's dictator with a spider-like war machine and eventually uses a mind-control gas to have all the Blackhawks obeying his orders.
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Text teaser for the Blackhawk's new uniforms at the end of the story.
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Subject Matter
western
It ripped itself loose...
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Promotional house advertisement for Tomahawk (DC, 1950 series) #92 (May-June 1964), "now on sale," with cover depicted.
Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera Bios

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Subject Matter
biography, informational
Dick Dillin (self-portrait); Chuck Cuidera (self-portrait)
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No letters and instead features biographies of Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera and self-portraits of each.
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Subject Matter
Superman (cameo)
Be my guest at America's greatest amusement park
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An advertisement for Palisades Amusement Park, N.J., with discount coupons.
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Curious coins! Odd paper money!
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Five Broken Guns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
war
Blackhawk World War II Combat Diary
The Blackhawks are sent behind enemy lines to blow up a bridge, but find it defended by a German Tiger Tank.
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[untitled]

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superhero
Two exciting new adventures...
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Promotional house advertisment for Batman (DC, 1940 series) #163 (May 1964), "on sale everywhere...Mar. 5th," with cover depicted.
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DC Comics
Be first in your neighborhood...
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Promotional page for subscriptions to DC Comics. Ten issues for $1.00 or 20 issues for $2.00.

Titles available are Blackhawk (1957 series), Tomahawk (1950 series), Batman (1940 series), and Our Army at War (1952 series).
100 Magnets

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100 Pc. Toy Soldiers Set

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Boys! Men! My secret new dynaflex method...
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Inside back cover.
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Subject Matter
Make money get prizes with fast selling American seeds
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Back cover.

An advertisement from the American Seed Co.

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