Comic Title: Blackhawk Special #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1992
On Sale Date: November 3, 1992 Shipping Date November 3, 1992
Source: Previews, Vol. 2 #8 (#44)

Copyright Date November 3, 1992
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1992

Direct Market Date November 6, 1992
Source: Usenet, (Capital City) : New releases: 11/04 - 11/06

Direct Market Date November 5, 1992
Source: Comic Shop News, #280

Shipping Date November 3, 1992
Source: Direct Currents, #57

Cover Price: $3.50
Page Count: 64
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Hardwire"
Pages: 57

Feature(s):
Blackhawk (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Ostrander
Artist: Mike Vosburg
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Julia Lacquement

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (1963; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (1963; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Andre (1963; dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; no further appearances)
• Chuck (1963; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Olaf (1963; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Weng Chan (1963; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Grover Baines (1963; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Paco Herrera (1963; last appearance in Blackhawk #16; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Lady Blackhawk (1968; last appearance in Blackhawk #12; no further appearances)
• Jimmy (1975; one of the Blackhawks; possibly Jimmy Reed; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Hardwire (Stephen Weir; Death Mayhew's grandson; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Galsworthy (Hardwire's associate; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Control (last appearance in Secret Origins #14; next appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1)
• Robert Kennedy (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• John F. Kennedy (mostly behind-the-scenes; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Gale (Andre's contact; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Smith and Corby (a CIA agent and a Secret Service man; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Blackhawk (1968; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• The Blackhawks (1968; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Chuck (1968; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Olaf (1968; missing in action; presumed dead in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)
• Paco Herrera (1968; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Weng Chan (1968; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Grover Baines (1968; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; next appearance in Blackhawk Special #1)
• Blackhawk (1975; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)
• The Blackhawks (1975; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)
• Weng Chan (1975; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)
• Grover Baines (1975; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)
• Paco Herrera (1975; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)
• Chuck (1975; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is split across three distinct time periods.
Pages 1-36 take place between November 15 and November 23, 1963.
Pages 38-45 take place between June 1 and June 5, 1968.
Page 37 takes place slightly earlier on April 30, 1968.
Pages 46-57 take place on April 29, 1975.

Andre dies in this story. Olaf is missing and presumed dead.

Synopsis:
In 1963, Andre quits the Blackhawks and begins working for John F. Kennedy. When he receives intelligence that Kennedy has been targeted for assassination, Andre is killed before he can tell anyone. The Blackhawks investigate Andre's murder and trace the killer to Dallas. They are on hand to see the Kennedy assassination, but the killer escapes.

Five years later, Olaf is working in Vietnam and uncovers evidence that Robert Kennedy has been targeted. Andre's killer fires a rocket that possibly kills Olaf, but not before he warns the team. In California, the Blackhawks try to protect Bobby, but once again they fail.

In 1975, Blackhawk finally tracks down Andre's killer, Stephen Weir, aka Hardwire. Weir is the grandson of Death Mayhew. The two men fight it out on the rooftops in Saigon. Blackhawk finally has vengeance when he kills Weir. The men behind Weir's activities believe their feud with Blackhawk is over, but Blackhawk vows to continue until Olaf is found.