10 Facts About The Blackhawks

1.

The Blackhawks debuted in August 1941 as the lead feature in the first issue of Quality Comics' anthology series Military Comics, billed as featuring "stories of the Army and Navy".

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2.

The Blackhawks' success earned them their own title in Winter 1944.

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3.

The Blackhawks were transplanted to the 1970s and now portrayed as mercenaries-for-hire, matching wits against fancifully bizarre new villains, as well as a re-imagined Killer Shark and War Wheel.

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4.

The book is set in the present day with no appearances by, or mention of, prior The Blackhawks, although there is a new version of the Lady Blackhawk character.

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5.

The Blackhawks then seeks refuge in England where he attempts to join the Royal Air Force.

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6.

Around this same time, the Blackhawks are joined by Captain Natalie Reed was born on Natalie Gurdin, and a brilliant Russian-American flight engineer who redesigns the Blackhawks' aircraft and is dubbed Lady Blackhawk by the U S press.

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7.

The Blackhawks's introduces the Blackhawk Island, a place where cosmic energy conducted through the earth's metal core cancels itself out, creating a kind of static that disrupts space-time, the Island served as well for many years as a base of operations for Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

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8.

Lady Blackhawk and the Blackhawks are featured in All-Star Batman second arc, "Ends of Earth", they are seen hounding Batman, and they are shown to possesses an armor that has the ability to track eye-line movement, the armor turns them invisible.

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9.

In 1952, it's firmly stated that he's a full member of the team, and from 1955 to 1964, he slowly transforms into a more realistically drawn character, changes that culminate when the Blackhawks take on a major uniform change for the first time in their history and Chop-Chop finally joins them in his choice of wardrobe.

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10.

The Blackhawks writes: "Since Chop-Chop turned up full-grown in 1941, he might well have been born into a village in which the customs of Imperial China still lingered".

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