Blackhawk #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBlackhawk #10 (Spring 1946) is only the second issue of the Blackhawks' self-titled solo series, making it one of the foundational entries in a run that would define Golden Age aviation adventure comics for over a decade. Coming out more than a year after the debut issue, it marked the title's true post-war relaunch under the artistically dominant hand of Reed Crandall, whose distinctive draftsmanship would carry the book to the height of its popularity. The issue is also noteworthy for inaugurating the standalone Chop Chop backup feature — a recurring fixture of the Blackhawk formula that ran throughout the Quality years — signaling the editorial expansion of the title beyond pure Blackhawk squadron stories. As one of only a small handful of issues produced during the quarterly phase of the series, it captures the Blackhawks at an inflection point between their wartime origins and their post-war identity.
In "The Treasure of Ghanpat," Blackhawk and his team race across the globe to uncover a long-lost treasure, guided only by cryptic clues and the legacy of a forgotten explorer. Reed Crandall’s dynamic artwork brings the adventure to life, while Al Bryant’s striking cover captures the mystery and danger of the quest. A 10-cent comic from 1946, it blends wartime intrigue with the wonder of discovery.
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The Blackhawk solo title launched in Winter 1944 with issue #9, inheriting its numbering from Quality Comics' cancelled Uncle Sam Quarterly — a common Golden Age publishing workaround that allowed publishers to transfer postal mailing licenses from a cancelled title to a new one by continuing the sequence. After that debut, the title went dormant for well over a year, with issue #10 not arriving until Spring 1946; collector historians have speculated that wartime paper rationing contributed to the hiatus, noting parallel gaps in other Quality quarterly titles such as Doll Man and Plastic Man. Reed Crandall, who had already made his mark on the Blackhawk strip in Military Comics before his Army Air Force service, returned to become the book's primary artistic force during this early solo run, and his polished, cinematic linework set the visual standard for the series going forward.
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- Published Spring 1946 by Quality Comics as the second issue of the solo Blackhawk title (the series launched with #9 in Winter 1944).
- The solo title's numbering begins at #9 because Quality transferred the postal license from the cancelled Uncle Sam Quarterly, whose final issue was #8.
- Interior art on all three main Blackhawk stories — 'The Treasure of Ghanpat,' 'The Wreck of the Rampole,' and 'Blackhawk and the Slavers' — is credited to Reed Crandall.
- The issue is noted as containing the first standalone Chop Chop feature strip in the title, an 8-page story titled 'Chop Chop's Rocket Ride'; the Chop Chop backup would become a fixture of the Blackhawk series throughout the Quality era.
- Cover art features a black hawk perched over a globe motif and is attributed to Al Bryant.
- The issue runs 52 pages in full color at a cover price of ten cents, consistent with other Quality Comics squarebound publications of the period.
- Additional content includes a text story ('A Mirror For Manjorr') and a one-page Johnny Doughboy filler strip by Bernard Dibble.
- The series was published quarterly until issue #19 (June 1948), after which it shifted to bimonthly and eventually monthly publication as the title's popularity grew through the late 1940s into the 1950s.
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Reprinted in 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-14 (1973), PS Artbooks Softee: Blackhawk #1 (2021)
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