Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1958-09-11
Editing: Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor); Murray Boltinoff (actual associate editor); George Kashdan (actual associate editor)
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Captives of the Steel Sea Creature!
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Blackhawk / cover / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; aviation; military
Characters:
The Blackhawks Maegland
Reprints (3)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

[no title indexed]
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Garcelon Stamps / advertisement / 1 page

The Mystery Missile from Space!
(Table of Contents: 2)

Blackhawk / comic story / 7.67 pages

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  • Genre:adventure; science fiction; aviation; military
Characters:
The Blackhawks
Synopsis:
A gang of interplanetary criminals lands on Earth and has to steal the materials to recharge their rocket.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
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Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page

[The Planet and the Pendulum!]
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Adam Strange / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Cowboy Money!
(Table of Contents: 5)

cartoon / 0.5 page

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?
Letters:
  • Genre:non-fiction; western-frontier
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[no title indexed]
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Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 7)

Ollie / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What a swell day for painting the house!
  • Keywords:bird house; painting
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Synopsis:
Ollie paints his bird house.

A Day with the Blackhawks
(Table of Contents: 8)

Blackhawk / comic story / 7.67 pages

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  • Genre:adventure; aviation; military
Characters:
The Blackhawks Jim Burrow; The Wolf
Synopsis:
A reporter spends a day accompanying the Blackhawks on their duties, but the Wolf secretly plans to use the visit as on opportunity to locate Blackhawk Island.
Reprints (2)

[no title indexed]
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Tootsie [all other candies] / advertisement / 0.33 page

Look to the Stars!
(Table of Contents: 10)

public service announcement / 1 page

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  • Genre:advocacy; math & science
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gosh Bob, we're lost! What do we do now?
Characters:
Bob; Ted
Synopsis:
Bob and his friends are saved from being lost in the woods because Bob knows how to find Polaris, the North Star.

Indexer Notes

Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.

Appeared across a range of DC comics in November/December 1958.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 11)

Peter Puptent, Explorer / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This temple is supposed to have a pool that was used for ancient rites.
  • Keywords:pool; temple
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Synopsis:
Peter and a friend explore an ancient temple.

Space Terms and Talk
(Table of Contents: 12)

text article / 1 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction
Synopsis:
A brief glossary of aerospace terms.

Captives of the Steel Sea Creature
(Table of Contents: 13)

Blackhawk / comic story / 7.67 pages

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  • Genre:adventure; science fiction; aviation; military
Characters:
The Blackhawks Maegland; Killer Shark (cameo)
Synopsis:
Killer Shark's former henchmen gain control of his giant mechanical Portuguese Man of War and attack several ships. Blackhawk disguises himself as Killer Shark to infiltrate and defeat the gang.
Reprints (1)

Enter the Big Tootsie Roll "Name the Bear" Contest
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Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page

[no title indexed]
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American Specialty Company Christmas Cards & Seals / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes / advertisement / 1 page

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National Radio Institute Home Study Course / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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American Geographical Society's Around the World Program / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Captives of the Steel Sea Creature!
    Blackhawk
  2. [no title indexed]
    Garcelon Stamps
  3. The Mystery Missile from Space!
    Blackhawk
  4. ["Hunting in the jungle is fun for those..."]
    Tootsie Roll
  5. [The Planet and the Pendulum!]
    Adam Strange
  6. Cowboy Money!
  7. ["Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park..."]
    Palisades Amusement Park Admission
  8. ["What a swell day for painting the house!"]
    Ollie
  9. A Day with the Blackhawks
    Blackhawk
  10. ["The daredevil driver in a race..."]
    Tootsie [all other candies]
  11. Look to the Stars!
  12. ["This temple is supposed to have a pool that was used for ancient rites."]
    Peter Puptent, Explorer
  13. Space Terms and Talk
  14. Captives of the Steel Sea Creature
    Blackhawk
  15. Enter the Big Tootsie Roll "Name the Bear" Contest
    Tootsie Roll
  16. [no title indexed]
    American Specialty Company Christmas Cards & Seals
  17. [no title indexed]
    Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes
  18. [no title indexed]
    National Radio Institute Home Study Course
  19. [no title indexed]
    American Geographical Society's Around the World Program
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  • Dwayne Best
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
  • Paul Robinson
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Jim Van Dore
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