Issue No. 171

April 1962

The Human Menagerie: Magical artifacts give Blackhawk, Andre, and Hendrickson the powers of the eagle, bull and lion respectively. But the they also put them under the control of a sorcerer's magic wand. Blackie saves the day by snatching the wand from the sorcerer's hand.

The Blackhawk Medicine Man: Hendrickson poses as a powerful medicine man to help a tribe in the Amazonian rain forests, with some magic tricks supplied by the rest of the team.

The Secret of Alien Island: The Black Knights track a space ship back to an island near Blackhawk Island and discover the aliens are building a secret base. Thinking they are invaders, the team fights them but are defeated. However, these aliens are good guys trying to protect the Blackhawks from other aliens, which the team does by itself using some of those Blackhawk robot doubles they decided not to use back in Issue No. 139.



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