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The Moon Monster!
"So you're the best that Earth can pit against me, eh, Blackhawks?"
Characters
- Blackhawk
- Chuck
- Hendrickson
- Olaf
- Moon Monster
Credits
- Pencils: Dick Dillin
- Inks: Chuck Cuidera
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
The Top TV Comic Stars Come From DC – The House of Hits
Characters
- Batman
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Superboy
- Krypto
- Lois Lane
Story Notes
Full-page DC house advertisement promoting the company’s 1966 television and multimedia presence. Emphasizes current and upcoming broadcast tie-ins across ABC (Batman live-action), syndicated Superman programming, and CBS Saturday morning animation (The New Adventures of Superman with Superboy and Krypto). Also cross-promotes the Broadway musical It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman. Footer banner previews additional animated properties slated for Fall 1966 (Aquaman; Wonder Woman; The Flash; Plastic Man; Metamorpho). Reflects DC’s coordinated expansion into television and stage media during the mid-1960s “Batman boom†period. Copyright credited to National Periodical Publications, Inc., 1966.
The Moon Monster
"Is he a madman?...a Moon-Man?...or a sensational fraud?"
Credits
- Script: Ed Herron
- Pencils: Dick Dillin
- Inks: Chuck Cuidera
- Letters: Stan Starkman
The Kat Visits AMT's New Trophy "Haul of Fame"
Story Notes
Half-page color advertisement for AMT Corporation's "Haul of Fame" trophy model series. AMT's anthropomorphic cat mascot "The Kat," dressed in a red jacket, hosts a showroom display featuring two completed trophy models. AMT Corporation was one of the dominant model kit manufacturers of the 1960s, widely recognized for their automotive, TV, and movie tie-in kits. The "Haul of Fame" Trophy Series represented AMT's push into collectible, display-ready finished models aimed at younger buyers who may not have had the skill or patience for traditional assembly kits. This ad carries strong cross-collectible appeal, intersecting the interests of Silver Age comic collectors, vintage model kit hobbyists, and classic Ford automobile enthusiasts — making it a minor but culturally resonant artifact of mid-1960s American hobby culture.
A Super-Scoop!
"Here's your key to Superman's Fortress of Solitude!"
Story Notes
Promotional for Superman 80pg Giant.
A Showcase Disgrace...The Inferior Five
"In brief, each one's a super-shmo..."
"Is that refrigerator egg holder for your mom?"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
"Hi, DC fans! Here's another preview peek at the Dynamic Concoction of action, thrills and laughs..."
Your Free Trip Around the World!
Featuring National Social Welfare Assembly
"...and when we got to the top of that mountain in Peru, 7,000 feet high, there she was - - Machu Picchu..."
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Published as a public service in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for National Health, Welfare and Recreation Agencies in the U.S.
The Moon Monster, Part 2
"Inside the Hawk-Copter, unreal goings-on begin to occur..."
Credits
- Script: Ed Herron
- Pencils: Dick Dillin
- Inks: Chuck Cuidera
- Letters: Stan Starkman
"Said a cat suffocating in Squaresville..."
Story Notes
This ad is a sharp piece of mid-1960s youth marketing, deliberately adopting beatnik/hip slang — "cat," "Squaresville," "set me off on a spree" — to position DC Comics as cool, countercultural, and aspirational to young readers. The invented "-sville" suffix constructions were a well-recognized slang pattern of the era, used to humorously coin new superlatives. The checkerboard border reinforces the mod visual language pervasive in 1966 popular culture. It reflects DC's awareness that their readership was aging and trend-conscious, and represents an early attempt to brand their line with a hip, irreverent identity to compete in an increasingly youth-driven marketplace.
Scooter? Who He?
"Forsooth, from Will the Shakespeare's pad alack, there came this swinging' cat..."
Hendrickson's Secret Life
"In this Detached Service shocker, the Blackhawks coped with Earth's most unbelievable and chilling enemy..."
Credits
- Script: Ed Herron (uncertain)
- Script: George Kashdan (uncertain)
- Pencils: Dick Dillin
- Inks: Chuck Cuidera
- Letters: Stan Starkman
Story Notes
In The Comic Reader #27 (July 1964), George Kashdan is credited with writing the Blackhawk fillers. Info per Nick Caputo.
40 Army-Navy-Marine Medals & Insignias
Story Notes
Half-page advertisement for a set of 40 authentic Army, Navy, and Marine medals and insignias, priced at $1.49 postpaid, sold via mail order through Insignias, Dept. 66-B, P.O. Box 397, Rockville Centre, N.Y. The set is described as including medals, collar insignias, Q-bars, shoulder emblems, ratings, ribbons, and chevrons. Copy explicitly states the items "were actually made for, and worn by the members of our fighting Armed Forces during World War II," confirming these as genuine surplus military decorations rather than reproductions. The ad is a culturally loaded artifact, running as it did during the height of American involvement in Vietnam, when the same demographic being marketed WWII surplus decorations as exciting tradeable novelties was approaching draft age. It reflects the profound normalization of military imagery and martial culture in mid-1960s America — a postwar consensus in which genuine service medals could be casually repackaged as children's collectibles without controversy. That unselfconsciousness would prove short-lived; within just a few years the cultural consensus around military service would fracture dramatically under the weight of the Vietnam War. As such, this modest mail-order ad stands as an inadvertent document of a particular American moment, poised at the exact hinge point between postwar patriotic certainty and the turbulence that would follow.
Be My Guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.
"This coupon entitles you to free admission plus 2 free rides..."
Batman and Detective Comics Started Something New
Characters
- Batman
- Robin
Story Notes
Promoting 2 page pin-ups in the "Batman" and "Detective Comics" series.
"Greetings from Blackhawk Island, fans!"
Story Notes
The Trade Corner featuring letters from Jon Waterman, Gregory Glaz, Steven Proffitt, Harvey Goldman, Thomas J. Berryman, Jr., Bill Norris, Louis A. Morra II, Howard Rogofsky (early comic book dealer), Michael LaMontagne, Henry Brown, Steven Hess, Ed Bowen, Dean Clemens, and Robert M. Matosky.
America's Most Exciting War Game
Story Notes
This advertisement's cultural weight mirrors that of the **40 Army-Navy-Marine insignia advertisement** elsewhere in this issue — both reflect the profound normalization of military imagery in mid-1960s children's consumer culture, here rendered as a Pacific Theater combat simulation marketed to the same demographic approaching Vietnam-era draft age. The unusual rotated page format is itself a minor production curiosity, functioning as an engagement device to physically involve the reader before purchase. The explicit Pacific Theater setting — aircraft carriers, island battlefields, naval bombardment — roots the fantasy squarely in the mythology of WWII rather than the deeply contested present conflict, a displacement strategy common to military toy marketing of the period that allowed martial play to remain aspirational and unambiguous at a moment when contemporary warfare was becoming anything but.
The Adventures of Andy and George in the GI Joe Club
"Guess what I've got, Andy! It's the new Official G.I. Joe Deep Sea Diving Suit..."
Characters
- Andy
- George
Story Notes
This advertisement is a particularly rich artifact of 1966 military toy culture, deploying the comic strip format with considerable sophistication — narrative immersion, peer modeling, and aspirational play scenarios all work in concert to sell both a product and a lifestyle identity to young male readers. The explicit language of the strip is striking in its Vietnam-era context: boys casually discuss "planting demolition charges when we're attacking a beachhead" as a leisure activity, while the repeated insistence that the equipment derives from real military blueprints deliberately collapses the boundary between play and genuine martial preparation. Following the other advertisements in this issue, specifically the 40 Army-Navy-Marine surplus medals ad and the Task Force war game, this page completes a pattern across Blackhawk #221 of sustained, normalized military consumer marketing directed squarely at the children of a nation actively at war.
Look What You Can Make With Mattel's Vac-U-Form®
"Tanks and cars that roll, planes that fly, boats that float, jewelry that glitters..."
Story Notes
Back cover.