Issue No. 52

May 1952

The Incredible Invasion - In a tiny European country, a reelected president, his staff, and his guests, the Blackhawks, agree to stage a mock invasion of communists forces to show their countrymen the importance of democracy. The invasion is successful. When Blackhawk discovers it was not faked and a real invading army was involved, he and his companions are imprisoned.

Chop Chop story 4 pgs

The Traitor in the Ranks - The team gets a new recruit. Antonio Riva, from Italy, joins the ranks. Unbeknownst to the Hawks, Riva is a spy, the real Antonio Riva having been killed earlier. The impostor and his superiors concoct a plan to bring the Hawks to Sardona to fight off commie invaders. Once there, the plan is to capture, interrogate, then kill, the Blackhawks.

Text story: "The Sky Bandit"

Blood on the Sphinx - The North African country of Hunpar celebrates the oil treaty agreement between new world and old. But when Prime Minister Hufein is killed by the nefarious Pharoah-Men and Hendrickson is fatally wounded when trying to capture one of the killers, Blackhawk goes undercover to find the lair of the terrorists and stop them from sabotaging the oil treaty agreement.

Thanks to Don Secrease for submitting the synopsis for this issue.

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