Issue No. 120
January 1958
The Challenge of the Wizard: He can make airplanes disappear, royal jewels float away and alien monsters appear on the streets. He's the Wizard and the Blackhawks try to unmask him by investigating the world's greatest magicians. But the greatest of them all is dead. Or is he? Blackhawk smokes him out with a daring feat of his own.
The Junior Blackhawk: The kid all we Blackhawk fans wanted to be. Twelve-year old "Junior" Johnson's got his own island, stuffed hawk and F-90 car and a Blackhawk uniform (Lucky kid!). After the Blackhawks saved his life in a flood, Junior had dedicated himself to becoming a future member of the team. Saving the Blackhawks' lives with a kite, he wants to join now! But sneaking aboard a suspicious yacht to help the team (He's got a belt radio, too!), Junior finds out there's more to being a Blackhawk than just dressing up for the role.
The Perils of Ulysses: The evil Professor, looter of tombs of ancient art, plans a unique revenge on the team that sent him to prison. With millions in stolen art money, he builds a robotic Disneyland based on Homer's Odyssey and forces the team to brave its dangers while the Professor films their every move. After surviving the Sirens, tossing Scylla (The monster with six heads and twelve legs!) into the whirlpool Charybdis, the Blackhawks and Blackie trip up the giant Cyclops. The team then turns the tables on the double-crossing Professor with robots of their own.
(Each of these stories contained enough ideas and action scenes for a book length novel, but were compressed into eight pages each.)
Thanks to David Chapman for submitting the cover scan and to Kevin Ahearn for the synopsis for this issue.
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