Don;
You have posted articles here in "toonopedia" on many, what I call "costumed" pilots. Adventurers like "The Flying Dutchman," who sole reason of existence was to fight the enemy (Axis Powers.)
For some reason after that last article was posted, my mind got to thinking about that type of character. Wasn't the most successful of
this genre, Blackhawk? Having survived into the 60's and, possibly, the 70's, by becoming flying crime fighters. (Forgetting the abomination called the Blackhawk "superheroes") Then revived, and, "recon'd" a couple of times since.
I don't recall any other characters of that type who survived that long. But, as usual, I defer to you and your sources.
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Posted by: Don Markstein
Posted on: 2008-05-20 at 06:18:52 AM
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Even more! They actually had an imitator as recently as the 1960s, Charlton's Fightin' Five, whose article I'm bound to write some time in the next few months or so. Of course, they weren't fighting World War II, but had switched to international criminals just as the Blackhawks had.
And yes, I do believe Blackhawk was the only one to survive that long. How fitting, that the one Eisner created be the one with that distinction. There were later ones, usually done as period pieces, but they're of no consequence. Will Eisner roolz!
Quack, Don
And yes, I do believe Blackhawk was the only one to survive that long. How fitting, that the one Eisner created be the one with that distinction. There were later ones, usually done as period pieces, but they're of no consequence. Will Eisner roolz!
Quack, Don
