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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published February 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing John Beardsley

Cover Details

Genre adventure; war
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Bill Ward

15 page Blackhawk story "Blackhawk Vs. the Fox"

Characters Hans Haupt [the Fox] (first appearance; villain)
Genre adventure; war
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Bill Ward
Notes inker identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr 28/2/2009

1 page Johnny Doughboy story

Genre Gags
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

10 page Sniper story "Stalemate!"

Characters Temket (first appearance)
Genre war; adventure
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

5 page Blue Tracer story "The U-1"

Genre war; aviation
Script Fred Guardineer
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer
Notes last appearance

8 page Phantom Clipper story "The Ghost Subs"

Characters Phantom Clipper (last appearance); Baron Von Volf (first appearance; villain; death); Commodore Carl Von Kirpitz (first appearance; villain; death); Capt. Manfred Steidler (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre war; navy
Pencils Andre LeBlanc
Inks Andre LeBlanc
Notes art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr 28/2/2009

1 page Pacific Patrol story "The Airacobras"

Genre war; navy
Script Al McWilliams
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams

9 page Private Dogtag story "The Three Granites"

Characters Felix Hamburger (first appearance; villain)
Genre humor
Script Bart Tumey
Pencils Bart Tumey
Inks Bart Tumey

2 page text story "Down To Earth"

Letters typeset

4 page Shot and Shell story "The Pasha and the Tax Problem"

Genre aviation
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

7 page Secret War News story "Convoy Attack"

Genre war; true
Script Al McWilliams
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams
Notes true story