Blackhawk Part I

There were only four non-funny comic characters published continuously from the early forties to the late sixties - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Blackhawk. The first three are still very much around but Blackhawk is nearly forgotten.

The original team first appeared in Military Comics 1 (August 1941) and last appeared in Blackhawk 273 (November 1984). There was a late eighties revival with a bit different team. The 2000 Millennium Edition reprint of Military Comics 1 is below.

There were no Blackhawk reprint collections until a single Archives Volume in 2001. But a few stories made it into the "100 Pages" reprint series in the early to mid seventies. There were a hundred or so of these collections published as part of the regular continuity of a number of DC Comics. "The Menace from Inner Space", was reprinted in The Brave and the Bold 117 (Feb-Mar 1975).

As a bonus here is Jim Steranko's Freddy Mercury version of Blackhawk and his team from the back cover of The Steranko History of Comics 2 (Reading, Penn: Supergraphics, 1972).