Comic Title: Blackhawk #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: January 26, 1988 Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: DC Releases, #48

Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #135

Copyright Date January 26, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Iron Dreams & Bloody Murder"
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 #2; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lady Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #615)

Villain(s)

• Death Mayhew (dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #2; no further appearances)
• Reba MacMahon (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Shadrack Hightower (dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #2; no further appearances)
• The White Lions (Ilya, Boris, and Nikta; all die in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Blackhawk Annual #1)
• O'Neil, Kraus, and Westgate (Nazi agents; all die in this story; no further appearances)
• Fyodor (dies behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Blackhawk #2; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (last appearance in Young All-Stars #22; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Laurrette Honneichker (an ambassador's wife; no further appearances)
• Lowell Kennedy and Odette Olbaert (no further appearances)
• Trenton Beauchamp (no further appearances)
• Kildare (a police officer; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Blackhawk #2.

Synopsis:
The White Lions commanded by Death Mayhew steal the missing atomic bomb from the Nazis in France after they took possession of it from the French resistance. The Lions also steal a prototype bomber that can make the trans-Atlantic journey to New York.

Blackhawk and Natalie Reed, dubbed Lady Blackhawk, are in New York. Although he is still the target of Senator Hightower, Blackhawk is once again welcomed as a hero. While attending a party, they are approached by Reba MacMahon. She has killed Hightower and tells Blackhawk about Mayhew's plan.

Reed pilots an auto-gyro into the New York sky. Blackhawk jumps to the Empire State Building where Mayhew is planning to signal the bomber. Blackhawk ambushes him and learns the radio frequency needed to detonate the bomb. The frequency is used for television audio. Blackhawk then utilizes the radio equipment to send the signal out to sea. When the bomber comes within range, the bomb explodes. The blast is far enough from the city that no damage is done. Blackhawk is then honored by the President.