Blackhawk #230 for Sale - First Appearance of The Leaper - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series)
Issue: #230
Publication date: March 1967
Key date: 1967-03-00
On-sale date: 1967-01-10
Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Leaper - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of The Golden Centurion - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of M'sieu Machine - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Dr. Hands - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Bizarro-Supergirl - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Dick Dillin; inks: Chuck Cuidera; letters: Ira Schnapp	Andre, The Big Eye, Blackhawk, Chop-Chop, Chuck, Dr. Hands First, The Golden Centurion First, Bart Hawk, Hendrickson, The Leaper First, The Listener, M'sieu Machine First, Olaf, Stanislaus
1	Junk-Heap Heroes Book III	comic story	7.65	script: Bob Haney; pencils: Dick Dillin; inks: Chuck Cuidera	Barry Allen, Batman, The Big Eye, Blackhawk, The Champ, Chuck, The Flash, Green Lantern, Bart Hawk, Hendrickson, Lyndon Johnson, Hal Jordan, Clark Kent, The Leaper First
2	Are you with the new Blackhawk era?	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.35		Andre, Blackhawk, Chop-Chop, Chuck, Bart Hawk, Hendrickson, Olaf, Stanislaus
3	Blackhawk By-Lines	letters page	1	letters: typeset
4	-	activity	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
5	Junk-Heap Heroes Book III Part 2	comic story	7.5	script: Bob Haney; pencils: Dick Dillin; inks: Chuck Cuidera	Andre, The Big Eye, Blackhawk, Chop-Chop, Chuck, Dr. Hands First, Bart Hawk, The Listener, M'sieu Machine First
6	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Mike Esposito; letters: Ira Schnapp	Awkwardman, Blimp, Dumb Bunny, Merryman, White Feather
7	Junk-Heap Heroes Book III Part 3	comic story	7.5	script: Bob Haney; pencils: Dick Dillin; inks: Chuck Cuidera	Barry Allen, Andre, Batman, The Big Eye, Blackhawk, The Champ, Chop-Chop, Chuck, Dr. Hands First, The Flash, The Golden Centurion First, Green Lantern, Bart Hawk, Hendrickson
8	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Nick Cardy; inks: Nick Cardy; letters: Ira Schnapp	Aqualad, Aquaman, Arthur Curry, Garth
9	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: George Klein; letters: Ira Schnapp	Biron, Bizarro-Supergirl First, Comet, Kara Zor-El, Clark Kent, Supergirl, Superman
10	Countdown on Excellence	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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