Blackhawk #198

DC Comics

United States

Published
July 1964
Page count
36
Cover price
0.12 USD
Colour
Colour
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/18466

Credits

Editing
Murray Boltinoff

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover D-Day for the Blackhawks! (Blackhawk) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Blackhawk
Genre
Adventure; war
Characters
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus]

Credits

Pencils
Dick Dillin
Inks
Charles Cuidera
Letters
Gaspar Saladino ?
Show/hide 1. No title recorded (Best Values Co.) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Best Values Co.

Credits

Letters
typeset

Notes

Inside front cover.

Show/hide 2. D-Day for the Blackhawks, Part 1: The Origin of the Blackhawks (Blackhawk) Comic story, 9.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Blackhawk
Genre
Adventure; war
Characters
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus]; General Dwight D. Eisenhower (cameo);

Credits

Script
Arnold Drake
Pencils
Dick Dillin
Gene Colan (Eisenhower, page 10, panel 3)
Inks
Charles Cuidera

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Blackhawk (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #20 ([October 1964?])
D-Day for the Blackhawks, Part 1: The Origin of the Blackhawks

Synopsis

In a flashback, Blackhawk tells how the original six Blackhawks were brought together in England.

Notes

Origin retold. Stan's meeting with the Blackhawks lifted from "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas. General Dwight D. Eisehower drawn by Gene Colan (page 10, panel 3). (Bob Bailey)

Show/hide 3. No title recorded (Tootsie Roll Fudge) Advertisement, 0.33 pages

"I like chocolate fudge best!"

Featuring

Feature
Tootsie Roll Fudge

Notes

Ad for Tootsie Roll Fudge candy.

Show/hide 4. Learn from Your Hobbies! Public service announcement, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Advocacy

Credits

Script
Jack Schiff
Pencils
Sheldon Moldoff
Inks
Sheldon Moldoff ?
Letters
Ira Schnapp

Synopsis

Jim learns that people's hobbies can help them in their school work and can be interesting, too.

Notes

Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.

Show/hide 5. No title recorded (Blackhawk By-Lines) Letters page, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Blackhawk By-Lines

Credits

Art
? (logo)
Letters
typeset

Notes

Letters from Ross Hindman; Bryant Wilbur; and B.J. (Philadelphia). Comments noted from Steve Perrin; Fred Landesman; Paul De Norio; and Anselmo Martinez, Jr. Column notes that Chuck Cuidera's brothers are policemen and writer France Herron comments on his artistic ability.

Show/hide 6. Watch for the First Superboy Annual! (Superboy Annual) Promo (ad from the publisher), 0.4 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superboy Annual
Characters
Superboy

Credits

Letters
Ira Schnapp

Notes

Promo for Superboy Annual #1 "on sale everywhere," with cover depicted.

Show/hide 7. No title recorded (Cap's Hobby Center) Comic story, 0.6 pages

"No, no! It's all wrong!"

Featuring

Feature
Cap's Hobby Center

Credits

Script
Henry Boltinoff
Art
Henry Boltinoff
Letters
Henry Boltinoff

Synopsis

An art student uses a "paint-by-numbers" canvas.

Show/hide 8. [D-Day for the Blackhawks] Part 2: The Jigsaw Goliath (Blackhawk) Comic story, 6.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Blackhawk
Genre
Adventure; science fiction; war
Characters
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus]; Heracles [Roger Duval]; Pierre

Credits

Script
Arnold Drake
Pencils
Dick Dillin
Inks
Charles Cuidera

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Blackhawk (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #20 ([October 1964?])
[D-Day for the Blackhawks] Part 2: The Jigsaw Goliath

Synopsis

The six Blackhawks land in France and find a secret factory where the Nazis are manufacturing a super war weapon.

Show/hide 9. No title recorded (Tootsie Rolls) Advertisement, 0.33 pages

"Tootsie Rolls go on and on..."

Featuring

Feature
Tootsie Rolls

Notes

Ad for Tootsie Rolls candy.

Show/hide 10. The Whole Batman Family! (Batman Annual) Promo (ad from the publisher), 0.5 pages

Featuring

Feature
Batman Annual
Characters
Batman

Credits

Letters
Ira Schnapp

Notes

Promo for Batman Annual #7, "on sale everywhere May 28th," with cover depicted.

Show/hide 11. No title recorded (Shorty) Comic story, 0.5 pages
Show/hide 12. No title recorded (DC Comics) Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

"Be first in your neighborhood..."

Featuring

Feature
DC Comics
Characters
Blackhawk (cameo); Chop-Chop (cameo)

Credits

Letters
typeset

Notes

Promo for subscriptions to Blackhawk comics. Ten issues for $1.00. Subscriptions also available for Tomahawk, Our Army at War, and Batman.

Show/hide 13. [D-Day for the Blackhawks] Part 3: Showdown at Omaha Beach (Blackhawk) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Blackhawk
Genre
Adventure; science fiction; war
Characters
Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop (cameo)]; Heracles [Roger Duvall]; Pierre

Credits

Script
Arnold Drake
Pencils
Dick Dillin
Inks
Charles Cuidera

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Blackhawk (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #20 ([October 1964?])
[D-Day for the Blackhawks] Part 3: Showdown at Omaha Beach

Synopsis

The Blackhawks decoy the Nazi super-weapon away from Omaha Beach on D-Day.

Notes

Story has a modern day framing sequence with Chop-Chop appearing in the last panel.

Show/hide 14. No title recorded (Palisades Amusement Park) Advertisement, 0.67 pages

"Be my guest at America's greatest amusement park"

Featuring

Feature
Palisades Amusement Park
Characters
Superman (cameo)

Credits

Letters
Ira Schnapp

Notes

Ad for Palisades Amusement Park, N.J., with discount coupons and promoting the new "Sky Ride."

Show/hide 15. No title recorded (Tootsie Roll Pops) Advertisement, 0.33 pages

"What makes a Tootsie Pop so special?"

Featuring

Feature
Tootsie Roll Pops

Notes

Ad for Tootsie Roll Pops candy.

Show/hide 16. No title recorded (Ant Farm) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Ant Farm
Show/hide 17. No title recorded (American Body Building Club) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
American Body Building Club

Credits

Letters
typeset

Notes

Inside back cover.

Show/hide 18. Beat the Champ! (Aurora Model Motoring) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Aurora Model Motoring
Characters
Fireball Roberts [Glenn Roberts]

Credits

Art
Murphy Anderson

Notes

Back cover. Ad for Aurora Model Motoring in comic format. Contest is to beat professional race driver "Fireball" Roberts' time on a slot-car course at a hobby shop. Aurora Plastics Corp., West Hempstead, N.Y.


Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 22972

Entry created

  • 15/09/2019

Cover added

  • 15/09/2019

Index completed

  • 15/09/2019