In the "New Blackhawk" uniform, from #199, art by Dick Dillin & Chuck Cuidera.
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In the "New Blackhawk" uniform, from #199, art by Dick Dillin & Chuck Cuidera. |
A Polish-American, the man who would come to be called Blackhawk watched in frustration as his ancestral homeland was overrun by the Nazi scourge. Since America had not yet entered World War II, the young pilot joined the Polish resistance, flying a plane he'd painted jet black and scoring countless successes in night runs against the enemy.
Completing one such run, he was pursued to his family's farm by the Nazi Colonel Von Tepp, and watched in helpless rage as Von Tepp bombed the farmhouse slaying the young pilot's brother and sister.
Vowing vengeance, the young pilot created the identity of Blackhawk, and launched a one-man terror campaign against history's greatest oppressors. Other pilots, inspired by his example, soon joined him in his mission, forming a volunteer paramilitary unit second to none in the history of combat. Anserable soley to Great Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, the Blackhawks became a force to be reckoned with.
After the war, Blackhawk turned his efforts to fighting Communism and then later to fighting super-criminals, including a brief period when he and the team experimented with super-powers themselves. Blackhawk's "secret identity" was Big Eye and he worked from a hawk shaped orbital platform (#229). Later, Blackhawk started an aircraft company using the alias "Mr. Cunningham" and still performed occassional secret missions for the government until the '70s when he retired for good (#244).
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