Comic Title: Blackhawk #259
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1983
On Sale Date: March 3, 1983 Newsstand Date March 3, 1983
Source: Comic Reader, #209

Shipping Date February 8, 1983
Source: Comic Reader, #209

Newsstand Date March 3, 1983
Source: Amazing Heroes, #20

Copyright Date February 8, 1983
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1983
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.60
Page Count: 32
Editor: Ernie Colon

Title: "The Long Road Runs Both Ways"
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Blackhawk (of Earth-1)

Writer: Mark Evanier
Artist: Bill Ziegler
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #259; next appearance in Blackhawk #261)

Supporting Character(s)

• Chop Chop (last appearance in Blackhawk #259; next appearance in Blackhawk #261)

Villain(s)

• Various Japanese soldiers (in flashback; no further appearances)
• A ninja assassin (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Soong Kai-Sen (A Chinese leader; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Chop Chop (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Blackhawk #251)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• The Blackhawks (in flashback)

Comments:
This is a Detached Service Diary story featuring Chop Chop. Blackhawk only appears as a narrator.

Chop Chop's name is revealed to be Wu Cheng in this story. His origin also does not match the story from the first story of Blackhawk #203 which is further evidence that this Chop Chop is a different character from Liu Huang, the Silver Age Chop Chop of Earth-1.

Synopsis:
Chop Chop investigates a Chinese villa that was been found in the Swiss Alps. Inside he discovers Soong Kai-Sen, a vocal Chinese leader who opposes the Japanese. Kai-Sen explains that he no longer wishes to lead his people and has built a retreat in the Alps. Chop Chop tries to convince him to return home to carry on the fight against Japan. A ninja then attacks. Chop Chop defeats the assassin who commits suicide for having failed. Chop Chop then makes a final plea to Kai-Sen, telling him that China needs a leader. Kai-Sen counters with a question about why Chop Chop has left his homeland too.