Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Blackhawk Backups 1956


Blackhawk 101 Baron von Richtofen
For their final year publishing comic books, Quality dropped the Chop-Chop reprints in Blackhawk as of #95 and instituted a series of aviation backup stories; "Rescue from the Sky" concerns civilian aviation, but after that they're all military-related.

The art credits are straightforward: Sam Citron on all. He was Quality's artist of choice that year on Robin Hood Tales, and inked others into his look on Exploits of Daniel Boone.

The writers are the Blackhawk writers and, in point of fact, the remaining Quality writers. For what it's worth, the Who's Who lists John Broome, of all people, on 1956 Blackhawk backups, but I can't see him on the any of the three I haven't been able to attribute to Bernstein or Millard.

Blackhawk Backups 1956
Art by Sam Citron


Jan/56 96  Rescue from the Sky w: ?
Feb/    97  War in the Sky w: Joe Millard
Mar/    98  David and Goliath in the Sky w: Millard
Apr/    99  Fear and Flight w: ?
May/    100  The Ghost Plane w: Robert Bernstein
June/    101  The Incredible Exploits of Baron von Richtofen w:  ?
July/    102  Critical Target w: Bernstein
Aug/    103  Fighter for Freedom w: Bernstein
Sept/    104  Caged w: Bernstein
Oct/     105  Winged Menace w: Bernstein
Nov/     106  Sam's Sixth Sense w: Bernstein
Dec/     107  Red Helicopter Ambush w: Bernstein

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