Military Comics, #14
Published: December 1942
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"Tondeleyo, mysterious girl of the East, becomes part of the Blackhawk's mightiest adventure!"
Characters
- Blackhawk
- Tondeleyo
Credits
- Pencils: Alex Kotzky (uncertain)
- Inks: Alex Kotzky (uncertain)
Story Notes
The splash pages for the strips "The Sniper", "Phantom Clipper" and "Pacific Patrol" are also shown on the cover (art by their respective artists). Change of cover artist / penciler from Reed Crandall to "Alex Kotzky ?" is based upon identification by Roger Hill.
Tondeleyo
Storyline
Blackhawk challenges Nazi ace Hans Oberst to an aerial duel to the death, which he accepts, but Blackhawk is unaware that it is a trap. A newcomer to Blackhawk Island, Tondeleyo, sows seeds of discontent and cowardice among the Blackhawks, and Chop-Chop is the only one to pull his friends out of their depression and take on the Nazis.
Characters
- Blackhawks [Blackhawk
- Andre
- Chuck
- Hendrickson
- Olaf
- Stanislaus
- Chop-Chop]
- Tondeleyo (villain, introduction, apparent death)
- Hans Oberst (Nazi villain, suicide)
- von Gurst (Nazi villain, death)
- Herr Hauptman (Nazi villain)
Credits
- Script: Bill Woolfolk
- Pencils: Reed Crandall
- Inks: Reed Crandall
- Letters: Sam Rosen
The Sinister Dr. Holtz (1)
Storyline
The Sniper locates a mad scientist in the Black Forest who has the capability of reducing troops to microscopic size, then putting them into the body of a suicide bomber pilot heading for England. When the reverse serum is applied, the men would burst from the pilot's corpse. The Sniper shoots down the bomber and Holtz, the scientist, commits suicide.
Characters
- The Sniper
- Dr. Heinrich Holtz (villain, scientist, death)
Credits
- Script: Ted Udall
- Pencils: Vern Henkel
- Inks: Vern Henkel
Mission to Yugoslavia (1)
Storyline
The President of the United States personally enlists the Blue Tracer for a mission in the mountains of Yugoslavia, where the machine demonstrates its most powerful ability to date by plunging from the sky and burrowing a tunnel straight through a mountain.
Characters
- Captain William "Wild Bill" Dunn
- Privatye Boomerang Jones
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Credits
- Script: Fred Guardineer
- Pencils: Fred Guardineer
- Inks: Fred Guardineer
"I just gotta hold him on my lap one last time before he leaves for camp"
Storyline
Johnny arrives at camp.
Characters
- Johnny Doughboy (first appearance)
- Ma
- Pa
- Lana Lamour
Credits
- Script: Bernard Dibble
- Pencils: Bernard Dibble
- Inks: Bernard Dibble
The World's Dumbest Soldier
Characters
- Private Dogtag (first appearance)
- Voodini (first appearance
- villain)
- Cameo: Winston Churchill (cameo)
Credits
- Pencils: Bart Tumey
- Script: Bart Tumey
- Inks: Bart Tumey
Bill Hatch -- Hero
The Chumps and the Chetniks (1)
Credits
- Script: Klaus Nordling
- Pencils: Klaus Nordling
- Inks: Klaus Nordling
Life-Line to the East
Credits
- Script: Al McWilliams
- Pencils: Al McWilliams
- Inks: Al McWilliams
Destroying the Destroyers (1)
Credits
- Script: Al McWilliams
- Pencils: Al McWilliams
- Inks: Al McWilliams