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Issue: Blackhawk #197
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 04/09/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from ad in Challengers of the Unknown #38 and copyright registration.

The Blackhawks get new uniforms in this issue.
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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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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The War Between the Blackhawks

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure, science fiction, war
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop]
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Cover title taken from interior story.
Are You a Good Neighbor?

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
opinion
The boys learn a lesson about littering.
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Inside front cover. Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
The War Between the Blackhawks, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, science fiction, war
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop]; Mr. Cipher
Mr. Cipher sends the Blackhawks on an undercover mission to Southeast Asia to prevent a war between the nations of Surbodia and Kieland.
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Miscellaneous
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New look for Blackhawks - sleeker costumes, more colorful.
They Live on Borrowed Time!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure
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Miscellaneous
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Promo for Challengers of the Unknown #38, "now on sale," with cover depicted.
What's New?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
DC Comics; Batman
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Promo for the "New Look" Batman in Detective Comics #327, "now on sale," and Batman #164, "on sale April 16th!." Covers are depicted.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Cap
Hello, Mr. Smith. Go right in.
Cap has a special club for fathers whose sons won't let them play with their model trains.
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Part 2: The Walking Holocausts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure, science fiction, war
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop]
The team of Andre, Olaf, and Blackhawk are jailed in Kieland after being framed by a jealous general. They manage to contact the rest of the Blackhawks who use counterfeit currency to frame the general and get themselves free. The other team in Surbodia finds that the country's secret weapon is an army of huge indestructible torotises.
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Revealed at Last!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Promo for The Doom Patrol #88, "on sale April 16th," with cover depicted.
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
DC Comics
Blackhawk (cameo); Chop-Chop (cameo)
Be first in your neighborhood...
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Promo for subscriptions to DC comics. Ten issues for $1.00 or 20 issues for $2.00. Titles available are Blackhawk; Tomahawk; Batman; and Our Army at War.
Arnold Drake and France Herron Bios

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (illustration)
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typeset
Subject Matter
biography
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1
Biographies of Arnold Drake (the new scripter and designer of the new look) and France Ed Herron (former and future scripter).
Part 3: The Boomerang Blitzkrieg

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, science fiction, war
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop]; Mr. Cipher
The Blackhawks are on opposite sides as the army of flame-throwing giant tortoises battles modern military weapons.
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The Blackhawks decide to keep their new uniforms, adding a Blackhawk insignia to the upper left sleeve. (Blackhawk himself gets a chest insignia.)
Watch for the First Superboy Annual!

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Subject Matter
Superboy Annual
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Promo for Superboy Annual #1, "on sale everywhere April 23rd," with cover depicted.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous, science fiction
Now to find out if there's life on this planet!
Shorty finds giant humans on an unexplored planet and thinks they'd be great for the school's basketball team.
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1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Be my guest at American's Greatest Amusement Park
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0.5
Ad for Palisades Amusement Park, N.J., with discount coupons.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

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

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Back cover.

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