Comic Title: Blackhawk #8
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1989
On Sale Date: September 26, 1989 Copyright Date September 26, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date September 28, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #115, #116, #118

Shipping Date August 29, 1989
Source: Previews, #6

Shipping Date September 28, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #9

Shipping Date August 29, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Direct Market Date August 31, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110, #112, #113

Shipping Date August 31, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #8

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "All the Skeletons Come Out to Play"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Blackhawk (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Martin Pasko
Penciller: Grant Miehm
Inker: Rick Burchett
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #9)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #10)
• Chuck (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #10)
• Andre (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #10)
• Olaf (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #10)
• Weng Chan (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #9)
• Natalie Reed (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #10)
• Grover Baines (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #10)
• Wendell Hardesty (dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #7; no further appearances)
• Steve Claiborne (dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #7; no further appearances)
• Constance Darabont (as a corpse; last appearance in Blackhawk #7; no further appearances)
• Pomeroy (last appearance in Blackhawk #7; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Kermit Geisendorf (aka Dr. Grundfest; last appearance in Blackhawk #7; next appearance in Blackhawk #9)
• Colonel Fairfax and Burman (Burman dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #7; no further appearances)
• Grundfest's conspirators (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Miss Argyle (real name Miriam Aaronson revealed; dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #7; no further appearances)
• Ray Sandoval (a retired navy man; no further appearances)
• Grundfest's agents (Miller, Jankiewicz, Fenton, Morrow, Schlieffen, Hauptmann, and Jurgens named; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Hendrickson (revealed to be dead in this story; in flashback)
• Mairzey (in flashback)

Comments:
This story, which takes place between June 29 and July 3, 1948, is continued from Blackhawk #7.

Synopsis:
Miss Argyle, Burman, and Steve Claiborne are each called before a committee to explain recent events involving the Blackhawks. Miss Argyle explains that she was the secretary working for Dr. Grundfest who planned and executed operations to kidnap the Blackhawks with the intention of stealing their identities and creating his own team who were more obedient. His first subject is Natalie Reed. He takes the face of the deceased Constance Darabont and grafts it onto Reed along with a psychological component.

Burman testifies that he was working for Grundfest at the secret CIA airbase where Andre was working as a test pilot. He switched sides and witnessed the Blackhawks trying to rescue Andre. They survived a plane explosion but were drugged by Grundfest. Hardesty and Claiborne were also captured.

Claiborne explains that the drug didn't knock out Blackhawk completely. He and Andre were able to escape. They broke Hardesty and Claiborne out and went to the facility known as the Circus where Grundfest was holding the others. Hardesty was killed in the ensuing fight. Grundfest was shot by Blackhawk, who was drugged again. Andre was captured by a brainwashed Natalie Reed.

Following their testimony, the committee orders all three witnesses shot. They are part of the conspiracy that now has all the Blackhawks in cold storage.