Issue No. 105
October 1956
Nightmare Cruise: An allied agent is killed in Genoa, Italy, on his way to deliver information about a Red plan. The Blackhawks track a black marketeer named Callas to a cruise ship sailing for North Africa because they think he can lead them to the Allied head agent, Rossi. Right after they board the cruise ship, it is taken over by Communist soldiers from a submarine. A beautiful young female passenger begs the Blackhawks to surrender so as not to endanger the other passengers. The Black Knights pretend to surrender, but at the right moment make their move and win the day, with some help from the beautiful young woman who holds a gun in the back of the Red commander, forcing him to surrender. She is secret agent Rossi, and she kissed Blackhawk and makes him blush.
Winged Menace: A non-Blackhawk story, in the air war in Korea, an incompetent pilot is finally convinced that it is better for him to stay on the ground. A strange story that made me wonder what the author had in mind.
The Red Kamikaze Terror: The Reds hatch a plan to take over a Taiwanese air base and use the jets in kamikaze attacks on the U.S. fleet in the Formosa Strait. The Taiwanese would get the blame for the attacks and it would strain relations between the allies. Of course, the plan is foiled by the Blackhawks with fist fights on the ground and dogfights in the air. Oddly, the Taiwanese aircraft seem to be Mig-15's.
The Master of Treachery: In French Morocco, rebel leader Sidi Savarr lays a trap for the Black Knights at a desert oasis. But Blackhawk decyphers ancient writing on the walls of the ruins in the oasis and uses the force of a hidden to overcome the raiders.
This issue sports a nice cover that features a dogfight, one of the rare instances of the Blackhawks' planes appearing on the cover. Note that the aircraft is in transition between the F-90B and the F-90C. It has the flattened intake of the F-90B but the mid-wing instead of low-wining placement of the F-90C.
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