Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Flying Tank Platoon!"

Let's Get Back to Some Serious Russkie-Smashing...

...as the Blackhawks tackle what was then state-of-the-art technology!

Unlike an earlier tale we presented about 1950s high-tech, this never-reprinted story from Quality's Blackhawk #106 (1956) was not based on actual experimental prototypes!

Writer Robert Bernstein, penciler Dick Dillin, and inker Chuck Cuidera created this whole thing from their fertile imaginations!

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Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Creatures from Outer Space!"

Don't be deceived by this Chuck Cuidera cover...

...even though the Blackhawks have previously-faced aliens and robots...and alien robots!

You didn't really think they were alien robots, did you?

Though inked by Chuck Cuidera, the writer and penciler for this never-reprinted, cover-featured story fron Quality's Modern Comics #101 (1950) are both, sadly, unknown!

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Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Winged Menace!"

Better Russkie-Smashing Through Technology!!!

The Dark Knights utilize real-world technology in their final, never-reprinted, appearance from Quality Comics!

When this tale by writer Robert Bernstein, penciler Dick Dillin and inker Chuck Cuidera appeared in Blackhawk #107 (1956), the deLackner HZ-1 Aerocyle was undergoing tests by the Department of Defense!

Sadly, this rather kool-looking device failed the tests, as detailed HERE.

BTW, a "backpack helicopter" had been posited back in the 1940s, but was deemed not feasable as a weapon.

But that didn't stop sci-fi magazine and comic creatives from utilizing it in their stories!

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Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Red Timetable of Treachery"

Russkies and other Commies were everywhere in the 1950s...

...including the Near East, as shown in this never-reprinted story from Quality's Blackhawk #107 (1956)...the final, but not truly final, issue!

DC didn't miss a month when it bought the rights to Blackhawk from Quality Comics, which was closing their business.
Quality's final issue, #107, was published in December, 1956!
DC's premiere issue, #108 rolled off the presses one month later, January, 1957 with material already prepared for publication by Quality as shown HERE!
BTW, Quality also featured Russkies in other Near East countries like Iran...

Check out this Russkie-Smashing tale from Quality's T-Man #3 (1952)!

But, that's not all!

There's also this sanitized-for-your-protection, Comics Code-modified reprint from Quality's T-Man #31 (1956), which waters down all the kool hard-boiled elements from the original tale...and makes the Russkies into generic "Communists"!

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