Blackhawk Squadron (Earth-One)

Official Team Name	Blackhawk Squadron
Team Aliases	The Blackhawks
Status	Defunct
Alignment	Good
Universe	Earth-One · Earth-Thirty-Two ·
Base of Operations	Blackhawk Island
Affiliations
Former Members	Bart Hawk (Leader), Andre, Chop-Chop, Chuck Wilson, Hans Hendrickson, Olaf Bjornson, Stanislaus, Zinda Blake
Allies	Tiny Big, the Tom Thumb Blackhawk, Blackie, the hawk
Enemies	Killer Shark (New Earth)
Creators	Will Eisner · Bob Powell · Chuck Cuidera
First appearance	Blackhawk #108 (January, 1957)

The Blackhawk Squadron were an elite volunteer force of roving aviators/commandos, who served with the Allies during World War II, and again during the Cold War. They traveled to almost every part of the world, known and unknown, and dealt with a wide variety of incredible menaces.

History

Roster

• Andre
• Blackhawk
• Chop Chop
• Chuck
• Hendrickson
• Olaf
• Stan

Operations

• In addition to their main base on Blackhawk Island, the team also once maintained a headquarters somewhere in the continental United States.

Paraphernalia

Equipment:

• It was not widely known (and they preferred it that way) that the Blackhawks, working as a team, had some truly astounding abilities as robot builders.
  • They once built five robots, out of scavenged parts, on a battlefield at night, then dressed them up in their own uniforms, and passed them off as themselves, well enough to fool a roomful of villains.
  • Years earlier, they built a much more advanced robot, self-disguising, with a mechanical memory and a built-in program for espionage. This robot's appearance was capable of deceiving even the Blackhawks. They called it Zollo.
    

Transportation:

• Lockheed XF-90
• Hawk-Copter
• Hawk-Car
• Hawksub
• Safari-mobile
  

Notes

• The Blackhawk Squadron first appeared in Military Comics #1 by Will Eisner, Bob Powell and Chuck Cuidera, published by Quality Comics.
• This version of the Blackhawk Squadron appeared in the Silver Age, starting in Blackhawk #108 (the first DC issue), by Robert Bernstein and Dick Dillin. The series was reinvented several times, first as superheroes in Blackhawk #228 and then as "New Blackhawks" in Blackhawk #242, before Mark Evanier completely rebooted the series back to its World War II roots in Blackhawk #251. The Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium established that the stories of the New Blackhawk-era took place on Earth-Thirty-Two.  
• The New Earth version of the team appeared in Blackhawk (Volume 2) and Blackhawk (Volume 3) and the team changed again due to Zero Hour.
• There are some irregularities in the Earth-One Blackhawk Squadron's timeline, partly due to the flashback nature of their stories, and partly due to deliberate Retcons.
  • Blackhawk #257 stated that two years prior Hitler invaded Poland (putting the date of the events related around September, 1941) but Blackhawk #273 is set 15 months before Pearl Harbor (September, 1940).
  • The back-stories of the Blackhawks' recurring villain Killer Shark, and of their mascot Blackie, are quite different from those of their counterparts in the Quality Universe.
  • On Earth-One, as on other parallel worlds, Blackhawk is confusing.

See Also

• 172 Appearances of Blackhawk Squadron (Earth-One)
• 18 Images that include Blackhawk Squadron (Earth-One)
• Team Gallery: Blackhawk Squadron (Earth-One)