Story: "The Blackhawk Act One" (23 Pages)

Credits: Matt Wagner and Stephen T. Seagle (plot, script); Matthew Smith (pencils, inks); David Hornung (colors); John Costanza (letters); Karen Berger (edits)

Feature Character: Sandman I

Guest Star: Janos Prohaska (last in flashback in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #45)

Supporting Characters: Dian Belmont, Lawrence Belmont (last in issue #43), Thomas Schaeffer, Tony Burke; Marion Schaeffer (first appearance; Thomas Schaeffer's wife; next in issue #48)

Villains: Charlton Walsh (first appearance; publisher of the Times Examiner and a member of the European Resistance Movement); Ralph McDaniels (first appearance; an ex-convict and part-time stable steward)

Other Characters: Gina Argondezzi (dies); Roland Richmond's Flying Tigers (first appearance; a group of airshow pilots); Reynolds Winthrop (a steel fabricator), Dupree, Rothstein (first appearance of all three; members of a European Resinsance Movement); Francis (a police officer), Eileen (first appearance; a waitress)

Cameo Appearances: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Winston Churchill (all four in a newsreel broadcast)