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"El Halcón Negro" Nº45, April 30, 1955. The Reed Crandall art had vanished by then, but the look was still quite pleasing to the eye , especially to the dedicated fan's eye. The first yarn (not the cover story in this case), "El Demoníaco Usurpador" ("Demoniacal Usurper") had the Blackhawks fighting a diabolical chief spy who was capable of assuming the personality of any of the Pilots of Liberty, thus spreading discord among the members of the gallant group; Chop-Chop came then, involved in his usual antics, followed by the cover story, "La Rueda de Fuego" ("The Fire Wheel"), about a flying flammiferous steel top, an aggressive weapon of the Commies, as dangerous as the red-clad, red-headed gorgeusly evil female Comrade Flama, the villainess who commanded the destructive artifact of doom. Blackhawks gets his usual angry slap when he refuses to surrender to Flama's tyrannic moods. "La Amenaza Supersónica" ("The Supersonic Menace") is the last story, which begins: "It was unbelievable! The Communist had developed a fantastic machine and sistematically destroyed the defenses of the United World Army in Europe! And nothing existed, in appeareance, which could possible stop it! Even the Blackhawks themselves failed once and again trying to put an end to 'THE SUPERSONIC MENACE'!" (But they didn't fail in the last page, of course; and, in the words of Blackhawk, " the doom of Supersonic was SPEED itself!" Ironic, isn't it?) The glory days of the magazine were about to end, but the standard was still high.
Editor's Note: compare to Blackhawk No. 85.
Thanks to Carlos M. Federici for providing this issue.
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