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)