Comic Title: Best of DC #52
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1984
On Sale Date: June 7, 1984 Newsstand Date June 7, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #4

Newsstand Date June 7, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #218

Newsstand Date June 7, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #48

Shipping Date May 15, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #218

Shipping Date May 15, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #4

Shipping Date May 15, 1984
Source: Comics Journal, #90

Copyright Date May 15, 1984
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1984
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date May 15, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #48

Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 144
Editor: Nicola Cuti

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Death of Blackhawk Island"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: Mark Evanier
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Letterer: Carrie Spiegle (McCarthy)
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted From:
Blackhawk #258 (1983)

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)
• Andre (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)
• Chuck (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)
• Hendrickson (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)
• Olaf (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)
• Stanislaus (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)
• Chop Chop (last appearance in Blackhawk #257; next appearance in Blackhawk #259)

Villain(s)

• Heinrich Himmler (last appearance in Blackhawk #255; no further appearances)
• Two Nazi technicans (no further appearances)
• A Nazi scientist (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Several Nazi soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed nurse (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Albert Einstein (in flashback)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (in flashback)
• Enrico Fermi (in flashback)
• Adolf Hitler (in a photograph)

Synopsis:
While Stanislaus recovers from his injuries on Blackhawk Island, the rest of the team raids a Nazi lab where atomic experiments are underway. The Nazi's escape in a giant mole machine. Before leaving they burn the lab, but one piece of information survives which indicate that the Nazis have developed an atomic bomb.

Blackhawk and Chop Chop follow the mole machine underground while the others return to Blackhawk Island to alert high command. Blackhawk reaches the office of Heinrich Himmler and steals the only copy of the plans for the bomb. He then returns to Blackhawk Island where the team learns that the one working bomb prototype has been launched and will hit the island. They evacuate quickly before the bomb detonates. Although they were able to get Stanislaus off the island in time, his nurse was still there when the bomb went off.