Issue: #12
Published: October 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Will Eisner
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.
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| Comic Story (11 pages) |
The Curse of Xanukhara |
| Synopsis: |
The Blackhawks are in pursuit of a leather briefcase containing a priceless, pre-determined plan of human existence which will be disrupted upon its disclosure, and which affects the outcome of World War II. In fact, two billion years of evolution are but a chapter in the gigantic plan. |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick French |
| Genre: |
Adventure War |
| Characters: |
Blackhawks [Blackhawk Andre Chuck Hendrickson Olaf Stanislaus] Major Brandon Unnamed Colonel The "Briefcase Bearer" (introduction, Unknown Bearded Narrator, Next In #29) Xanukhara (villain, Introduction, Next In #29) Zara (villain, Sentry For Xanukhara) Hammil Zorrex (introduction, Original Briefcase Bearer, Death) Korz (villain, Death) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Trial of Count Grubber |
| Featuring: |
Sniper |
| Credits: |
Script: Ted Udall |
| Genre: |
War Adventure |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Fruitcakes in France |
| Featuring: |
Shot and Shell |
| Credits: |
Script: Klaus Nordling | Pencils: Klaus Nordling | Inks: Klaus Nordling |
| Genre: |
Aviation |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Mess in Tokyo |
| Featuring: |
Loops and Banks |
| Credits: |
Script: Bob Powell | Pencils: Bob Powell [as Bud Ernes] | Inks: Bob Powell |
| Genre: |
Aviation |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Gestapo's Costume Ball |
| Featuring: |
X of the Underground |
| Synopsis: |
In Yugoslavia, X and her female underground agents infiltrate a costume ball to foil a Nazi plan. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Bob Hebberd | Inks: Bob Hebberd |
| Genre: |
Spy |
| Characters: |
X, Sonya, Bob (Jimmy) Gray, General Rottenbum, Gerta. |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Mikado's Fishing Trip |
| Featuring: |
Phantom Clipper |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Fred Kida | Inks: Fred Kida |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Hirohito (villain) |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Torpedo Tussle |
| Featuring: |
Inferior Man |
| Synopsis: |
Inferior Man joins the Navy. |
| Credits: |
Script: Al Jaffee | Pencils: Al Jaffee | Inks: Al Jaffee |
| Characters: |
Inferior Man |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Death to the Killer! |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Saga of the U.S.S. Marblehead |
| Featuring: |
Secret War News |
| Credits: |
Script: Al McWilliams | Pencils: Al McWilliams | Inks: Al McWilliams |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction War |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Navy Blimp K-5 |
| Featuring: |
Atlantic Patrol |
| Credits: |
Script: Al McWilliams | Pencils: Al McWilliams | Inks: Al McWilliams |
| Genre: |
War |
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