Issue No. 203
December 1964Operation White Dragon: Another story set in WW II, the six Blackhawks are sent to Japanese occupied China on a secret mission. Arriving, they encounter a mysterious resistance fighter wearing a white dragon costume and known only by that name. They meet an old warlord and the warlord's young son, Liu Huang, who argues against the Blackhawks and counsels his father to cooperate with the Japanese. Of course, shades of Zorro, the ineffectual seeming son is really the White Dragon, and is soon captured by the Japanese. The Black Knights come to the rescue and through an exciting series of feats, the Blackhawks and the young Chinese fighter save the warlord and convince him to fight the Japanese. Liu Huang explains that he can not go back to being the White Dragon because his capture caused him to "lose face." The Blackhawks invite him to join them and decide to call him Chop-Chop, for the sounds he habitually made when making his martial arts attacks. This is a good story, well told and illustrated, and fills in the background of Chop-Chop nicely. Unfortunately, like the origin story in No. 198, it emphasizes the WW II origins of the Blackhawks. Even if he was only 17 in the time of this story, Chop-Chop would be in his late thirties by 1964, not the young man of twenty as he is commonly portrayed. This age disparity becomes even worse in later issues when Chop-Chop is depicted using teenage slang.
Combat Diary - Death of the Super-sub: On a submarine reconaissance, the Blackhawks discover a highly advanced Nazi submarine so powerful it threatens the entire Allied fleet. Their sub is destroyed, so they capture a German U-boat to infiltrate and get close enough to the super-sub to sabotage its guns so it blows itself up when it tries to sink them.
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