Comic Title: Blackhawk #271
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1984
On Sale Date: April 5, 1984 Newsstand Date April 5, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #2

Newsstand Date April 5, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #217

Newsstand Date April 5, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #43

Shipping Date March 13, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #217

Shipping Date March 13, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #2

Copyright Date March 13, 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 March 13, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #43

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mark Evanier

Title: "The Silent Treatment"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Mark Evanier
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Letterer: Carrie Spiegle (McCarthy)
Colorist: Jerry Serpe

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #268; next appearance in Blackhawk #271)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (last appearance in Blackhawk #270; next appearance in Blackhawk #271)
• Andre (last appearance in Blackhawk #268; next appearance in Blackhawk #271)
• Chuck (last appearance in Blackhawk #268; next appearance in Blackhawk #271)
• Hendrickson (last appearance in Blackhawk #270; next appearance in Blackhawk #271)
• Olaf (last appearance in Blackhawk #268; next appearance in Blackhawk #271)
• Stanislaus (last appearance in Blackhawk #268; next appearance in Blackhawk #271)
• Theodore R. Gaynor (last appearance in Blackhawk #270; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• A Nazi General (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Various Nazi soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Cooper (a British officer; no further appearances)
• An unnamed woman and child (both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Gordon Randall Kent, Greif, Johnson, and Fogarty (students at a military academy; in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Theodore R. Gaynor (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Blackhawk #266)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Adolf Hitler (in flashback)

Comments:
Gaynor is expelled from this Blackhawks in this story. His death is recorded as occurring in July 1942 in the text.

Synopsis:
The Blackhawks battle the Nazis and take prisoners. When British officer Lieutenant Cooper comes to take custody, Gaynor snubs him. Cooper explains to the other Blackhawks that he attended a military academy with Gaynor. When Copper bested him on a test, Gaynor claimed that his classmate cheated. Cooper was cleared on charges, but Gaynor organized the other students to shun him. As a result Cooper left the academy.

Later, on another mission, the Blackhawks face the Worm, a machine invented by Professor Merson. Blackhawk devises a way to defeat it, but Gaynor questions orders. Blackhawk demands that Gaynor go to the perimeter while he executes the plan and successfully destroys the Worm.

Chuck then arrives. He had been left behind at Blackhawk Island and did some investigation of Gaynor's past. Before Chuck can tell the team what he learned, the Blackhawks hear gunfire. Gaynor has gunned down a Nazi General, his wife, and baby. They were all unarmed. Blackhawk demands Gaynor's resignation. They also prevent him from joining other military units, leaving him to wander Europe.