Blackhawk, #189

Published: October 1963

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Blackhawk #189

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Issue Contents:
The Super-Cavemen!
1 page adventure; science fiction
Credits
Play It Safe!
Story 1 1 page advocacy
Storyline

A day in the life of a forest ranger (billed as a "true story from the records of the Minnesota Warden Service.")

Story Notes

Inside front cover. Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.

The Super Cavemen of 15,000 B.C.
Story 2 10 pages adventure; science fiction
Storyline

The Blackhawks come across a fight between two pairs of men from the future--2048. A scientist had invented devices, then decided to cache them in the past using a time-travel belt. The scientist dies and his assistant plans on going into the past to retrieve the weapons. The Blackhawks take up the search in Rome in 97 A.D. Chuck, Hendrickson, and Olaf are left there to find the devices, while Blackhawk and the others go back to 15,000 B.C.

Credits
Story Notes

Part 1

Try a Tongue Teaser!
Story 3 0 pages
Story Notes

An advertisement for Tootsie Roll candy, featuring a tongue-twister.

Story 4 1 page

"104 Classic Racing Foreign Modern Cars..."

Story 5 1 page

"102 ships of all nations"

Story 6 1 page humor

"Here comes the airplane with our supplies!"

Storyline

A man parachutes into Peter's camp carrying dynamite.

Characters
  • Peter Puptent
[The Super Cavemen of 15,000 B.C. ] Chapter 2: The Doomed Gladiators
Story 7 9 pages adventure; science fiction
Storyline

Chuck, Hendrickson, and Olaf are in Rome in 97 A.D., where they find the criminals from the future have been captured and the time-belt taken from them. The Blackhawk trio are able to recover the time belt, but after they find Dr. Marn's buried weapons, the future criminals turn on them and leave the three stranded in the past.

Credits
Story 8 0 pages

"Your eyes may play tricks... but not your taste!"

Story Notes

An advertisement for Tootsie Roll Pop candy, featuring an optical illusion.

The Speed-Hunters
Story 9 1 page non-fiction
Storyline

Air Force experiments subjecting humans high-G forces in rocket sleds.

Story 10 1 page

"Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park..."

Characters
Story Notes

An advertisement for Palisades Amusement Park, N.J., featuring discount coupons.

207 Stamps
Story 11 1 page
[The Super Cavemen of 15,000 B.C.] Chapter 3: The War with Super Weapons
Story 12 6 pages adventure; science fiction
Storyline

The time traveling criminals find the rest of the Blackhawks in the prehistoric era, where they are fleeing the cavemen armed with super-weapons. The criminals fight both the cavemen and the Blackhawks for possession of the super-weapons.

Credits
Story 13 0 pages

"For party fun! Game of the month!"

Story Notes

An advertisement for Tootsie Roll Fudge featuring a party game that involves the candy.

Story 14 1 page

"Hi! Boys and girls, here is your big chance..."

Blast Off
Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Sold by Five Star Toys.

Task Force
Story 16 1 page
Story Notes

An advertisement from the Helen of Toy, Co.

100 Toy Soldiers $1.25
Story 17 1 page
Story Notes

Sold by Josely Co.

104 Kings' Knights
Story 18 1 page
Story 19 1 page

"Boys, girls, men, women..."

Story Notes

Inside back cover. An advertisement from Wallace Brown, Inc.

204 Revolutionary War Soldiers
Story 20 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Back cover.