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SUPER-HERO 011 UPDATE: THE BLACKHAWKS 1941

SUPER-HERO 011 UPDATE: THE BLACKHAWKS 1941

  The major development for the Blackhawks post-origin is of course the introduction of more named Blackhawks, and they get on that almost immediately: The second Blackhawks story, in Military Comics 002, introduces six new Blackhawks all in one go: Stanislaus, Andre, Hendrick, Boris, Zeg and Olaf. I wouldn’t call them especially distinctive personalities in this first appearance, particularly as the story’s focus is less on the Blackhawks and more on the fellow in the yellow scarf, an RAF flyer…

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SUPER-HERO FILE 011: THE BLACKHAWKS

SUPER-HERO FILE 011: THE BLACKHAWKS

(Military Comics 001, 1941)  Aviation comics are, to me, one of the more boring of the sub-genres which makes it especially galling that they are filled with gimmicky pilots with special names and super planes and so forth who clearly meet all of my criteria for being counted as a super-hero or -villain. But even if I let the boredom I felt at reading page after page of lovingly-detailed airplanes zooming around rule me and discounted all the pilot-heroes and…

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