The Junk-Heap Heroes!

With all the vintage comics material in reprint form, you'd think there'd be nothing I yet needed. But that's not true. The Blackhawks were a venerable comic team which debuted in Quality's Military Comics in the heat of World War II. They were collected up by DC Comics (along with Plastic Man and the heroes of the future Freedom Fighters) when Quality dissolved. DC continued to publish them but sales diminish and so when the superhero craze of the 60's struck the idea developed to change the Blackhawks to meet the times. They became somewhat zany heroes with delightfully baffling names. There is a disdain for this era of the team which was a last ditch attempt to revive them before cancellation. They've since returned a few times, but never in their "Junk-Heap Heroes" identities. These comics drawn by stalwart DC artist Dick Dillin need collecting, if only to remind us all of what it was like in those days.

 To read the three-issue story in which the changes take place follow this link. 

Here are the rest if the covers in this unforgettable (some say "unforgivable") run.

Now don't you want to see what's under those covers. Admit it.

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