Comic Title: Blackhawk #273
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1984
On Sale Date: August 2, 1984 Newsstand Date August 2, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #6

Newsstand Date August 2, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #219

Newsstand Date August 2, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #52

Shipping Date July 10, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #219

Shipping Date July 10, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #6

Copyright Date July 10, 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 July 10, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #52

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

Title: "No Information Available at Press Time"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: Mark Evanier
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Richard Howell
Letterer: Carrie Spiegle (McCarthy)
Colorist: Jerry Serpe

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #272; next appearance in Blackhawk #196)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (last appearance in Blackhawk #272; next appearance in Blackhawk #196)
• Andre (last appearance in Blackhawk #272; next appearance in Blackhawk #196)
• Chuck (last appearance in Blackhawk #272; next appearance in Blackhawk #196)
• Hendrickson (last appearance in Blackhawk #272; next appearance in Blackhawk #196)
• Olaf (last appearance in Blackhawk #272; next appearance in Blackhawk #268)
• Stanislaus (last appearance in Blackhawk #272; next appearance in Blackhawk #196)
• Chop Chop (last appearance in Blackhawk #265; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Commander Menda, General Yoja, and various Japanese soldiers (no further appearances)
• Smith (an American arms dealer; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Virginia Mueller (last appearance in Blackhawk #268; no further appearances)
• Mr. Fordham (a magazine editor; no further appearances)
• Mali, Li, and several Chinese peasents (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story includes several pages of a Detached Service Diary back story involving Chop Chop.

Synopsis:
The Blackhawks receive an emergency call from China concerning their former teammate Chop Chop. The team heads East where they find the countryside devastated by a Japanese super weapon. Virginia Mueller, war correspondent, is also on the scene. They can't find Chop Chop, but they do find his diary which documents his arrival in China.

Chop Chop has been captured by the Japanese. He is able to escape. He then follows the super weapon which is a tank styled to look like a dragon. The dragon attacks the Blackhawks. With Chop Chop's help the team lures it into a building loaded with explosives. When the building explodes, the super weapon is also destroyed.

In the aftermath, the Blackhawks realize that the Japanese have lured them here intentionally. Chop Chop returns to the team. Blackhawk asks Mueller not to print the story until they can investigate how the Japanese were able to manipulate intelligence.