Comic Title: Blackhawk #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: December 22, 1987 Shipping Date December 22, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #47

Shipping Date December 22, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #132

Copyright Date December 22, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Copyright Date January 26, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988
LoC has duplicate entries with different dates

Cover Price: $2.95
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Red Snow"
Pages: 46

Feature(s):
Blackhawk (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Artist: Howard Victor Chaykin
Letterer: Kenneth Bruzenak
Colorist: Steve Oliff

Reprinted In:
Blackhawk:Blood and Iron HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Blackhawk #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Chuck (real name Carlo Sirianni revealed; last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Chop Chop (real name Weng Chan revealed; last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Andre (Andre Blanc-DuMont of France; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Hendrickson (Ritter Hendricksen of Holland; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Olaf (Olaf Friedriksen of Denmark; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Stanislaus (Stanislaus Drozdowski of Poland; first post-Crisis appearance; dies in this story; last appearance in Secret Origins #45; no further appearances)
• Lady Blackhawk (joins the Blackhawks; last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Blackhawk #3)

Villain(s)

• Death Mayhew (last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Blackhawk #3)
• Reba MacMahon (last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Blackhawk #3)
• Shadrack Hightower (last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Blackhawk #3)
• Fyodor (last name Vaslov revealed; last appearance in Blackhawk #1; next appearance in Blackhawk #3)
• The White Lions (Mayhew's fighting unit; Ilya named; next appearance in Blackhawk #3)
• Scheiskopf (a German soldier; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Lieutenant Manfred Von Akker (a U-Boat commander; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Captain Upton Mantee (a smuggler; last appearance in Blackhawk #1; no further appearances)
• Powell (Mantee's crewman; no further appearances)
• Mr. Steiczek (no further appearances)
• Von Akker's men (Gritz, Bach, and Cerff named; no further appearances)
• Denis (a doctor; no further appearances)
• Members of the French resistance (Mitzi and Marino named; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (pictured in a news magazine)
• Winston Churchill (pictured in a news magazine)
• Josef Stalin (pictured in a news magazine)

Comments:
This story is continued from Blackhawk #1 and continues in Blackhawk #3.

Two former Blackhawks, Boris and Zeg, are said to have died earlier in the war.

Synopsis:
A stolen atomic bomb is hidden in the trunk of a car which is sold by freighter Captain Upton Mantee to Lieutenant Von Akker, a U-Boat commander. When the freighter docks in France, Von Akker takes possession of the car, but he is killed by members of the French resistance. They take the car.

Meanwhile Blackhawk is working for a joint British and Soviet operation. He, Chuck, and Chop Chop infiltrate a German airfield and steal three bombers which they use to drop Soviet propaganda. Blackhawk is unhappy with his current assignment and demands the new planes he was promised months earlier.

Elsewhere, Death Mayhew consults his doctor and learns that he only has months to live. His new unit of White Lions plans to kill the Blackhawks by luring them into a trap at the hangar where Natalie Reed is preparing their aircraft. However, the Germans stage an air raid on the hangar. Mayhew's attack is foiled, and several of his men are wounded. Blackhawk and his team take the planes into the air to protect them from the bombs. Stanislaus is killed during the escape.

After the bombing run is over, Blackhawk decides to become an independent fighter without ties to any nation. Mayhew also decides to make his White Lion group free of German influence.