Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Jet Menace!"

Behind This Rather Kool Dick Dillin/Chuck Cuidera Cover...

...(never-reprinted, BTW) lurks a tale (also never-reprinted )of Russkie sabotage and treachery!

Scripted by Robert Bernstein and penciled by Dick Dillin, and inked by Chuck Cuidera, the cover-featured story from Quality's Blackhawk #104 (1956) brings up an interesting,but obviously false, concept: if you have to bail out of a supersonic jet, you're incapable of flying one ever again!
If that was the case, Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan and literally all the Blackhawks would've been grounded pretty early in their jet-age careers!
Note: we're doing a Halloween-themed schedule for October, featuring super-heroes vs...

You'll see both well-known characters (and a couple of obscure ones) go up against various not-quite extinct giant lizards in hand-to-claw combat!

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Russkie-Smashers CAPTAIN AMERICA "You Die at Midnight!"

If You Liked Captain America & Bucky Punching Nazis...

...as they did for the past couple of weeks HERE & HERE, you'll love them Smashing Russkies!

This Commie-clobbering lead tale from Atlas' Captain America #77 (1954) was scripted by Don Rico and illustrated (with a splash page assist from Carl Burgos) by John Romita Sr!

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Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Lost Island"

You've Seen Blackhawk and His Men Smash Russkies All Over the World, and Even on The Moon...

...now witness them doing so on an island with a time-lost population!

Written by Robert Bernstein, penciled by Dick Dillin, and inked by Chuck Cuidera, this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Blackhawk #101 (1956) brings back the shadow of European imperialism as everybody (including America) tries to claim an island which is already inhabited!

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Russkie-Smashers DOLL MAN "Man with the Iron Face!"

Russkie-Smashers Come in All Shapes and Sizes...

...even if they're only as big as an action figure...or a doll!

Created by Will Eisner and Lou Fine in Quality's Feature Comics #27 (1939), Doll Man had a longer career than many other Golden Age characters, continuing in Feature Comics until #139 (1949) and his own book from the first issue in 1941 to #47 in 1953!

During that stretch, he battled Nazis, gangsters, monsters, aliens, ghosts, and finally Russkies, as shown in this never-reprinted story from Quality's Doll Man #45 (1953), written by Bill Woolfolk, penciled by Chic Stone, and inked by Chuck Cuidera.

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Russkie-Smashers PRIMUS "Saboteur"

Before "detente" occured in the mid-1970s...

...the Russkies were reliable baddies in fiction, as this never-reprinted comics tale, derived from a short-lived TV series in 1971-72, demonstrates!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Joe Staton, this tale from Charlton's Primus #7 (1972) was one of two tales in the same issue with Russkies as the bad guys!

(The other story involved a plan to have an impersonator replace President Nixon!)

The syndicated TV series detailed the adventures of Carter Primus (Robert Brown), scuba-diving scientist-adventurer dealing with everything from eco-terrorists to drug-runners to Russkie spies!

Because it ran during the Family Hour (7-8pm) it was limited as to how much violence it could show.

As a result, it wasn't even as action-packed as it's 1960s predecessor Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges!

So, unlike Sea Hunt, which ran for 155 episodes, Primus sank without a trace after only 26 shows.

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Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Nightmare Cruise"

We're Winding Up a Month of Russkie-Smashing with the Busiest Russkie-Smashers of All...

...awww, you guessed!

Scripted by Robert Bernstein, penciled by Dick Dillin, and inked by Chuck Cuidera, this never-reprinted story from Quality's Blackhawk #105 (1956) showed no matter what environment (air, land, or sea), nothing stops the Dark Knights (yes, they were referred that way long before a certain Caped Crusader) from defending democracy!

Next Week: We're Back to Nazi-Punching...with Blackhawk and his team!
(He was around a loooong time!)

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