Comic Title: Blackhawk #5
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1989
On Sale Date: June 20, 1989 Copyright Date June 20, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date June 1, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #166

Shipping Date May 30, 1989
Source: Previews, #3

Shipping Date June 1, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #5

Direct Market Date June 1, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #102

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

Title: "Do You Know the One About a Chinaman's Chance?"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Blackhawk (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Martin Pasko
Artist: Rick Burchett
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)
• Chuck (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)
• Weng Chan (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #7)
• Natalie Reed (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)
• Wendell Hardesty (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)
• Pomeroy (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)
• Elbling (dies in this story; death confirmed in Blackhawk #9; last appearance in Blackhawk #4; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Colonel McKay (last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)
• Kermit Geisendorf (aka Dr. Grundfest; last appearance in Blackhawk #4; next appearance in Blackhawk #7)
• Grundfest's assistants (Leonard named; no further appearances)
• Various Chinese soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sayres and Francken (soldiers; next appearance in Blackhawk #6)
• A group of Manchurian nationalists (Shen dies in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #4; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story, which takes place between June 10 and June 16, 1948, is continued from Blackhawk #4 and continues in Blackhawk #6.

Synopsis:
Blackhawk, Chuck, and Weng Chan have been kidnapped and taken to Manchuria where they undertake a clandestine mission to destroy a laboratory suspected of conducting experiments to replicate the atomic bomb by the communists. They cross a large stretch of land, then find a cave containing a cache of stolen American weapons. Blackhawk uses the weapons to fight off the Chinese military, but Weng Chan is nowhere to be found after the battle. McKay, the CIA operative in charge of the mission, is also uncovered as a possible double agent.

Meanwhile, back in the States, Natalie Reed is on the run after she is framed for the murder of Constance Darabont and the subsequent explosions at her pharmaceutical plant which killed over one hundred victims.