The Blackhawk Serpa Level 3 Tactical Holster is an excellent quick-action holster for most handguns used by the police, military, sport shooters, and even hunters. In the following, we take a look at the version with the leg platform, the Serpa Duty holster version, and the single shell.
1976 Stutz Blackhawk crossing the auction block at Indy 2020 as F51.
(first posted 5/24/2012) Virgil Exner is most often associated with the era of sweeping fins and other spacey design affectations during his tenure at Chrysler. But his most influential and […]
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Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake) (Comic Book Character) - Powers/Abilities Lady Blackhawk is an ace flier, able to easily handle any form of aircraft and also a fine markswoman and hand-to-hand combatant. She if often known to dual wield hand guns which she is an expert with and on one occasion even used a shot gun. History Zinda Blake was determined to become the first woman member of the famed Blackhawks. She trained herself in flying the most modern jet aircraft and in various forms of combat and weaponry. After rescuing Olaf from a villain called the Scavenger, Zinda was disappointed to be told that the Blackhawk code forbid a woman from joining the team. However, later when Zinda rescued the entire Blackhawk team, Blackhawk himself made her an honorary member. During her time with the Blackhawks, Zinda was captured by the villainous Killer Shark, a Nazi Operative and a Pirate. Killer Shark injected Zinda with a chemical that made her forget who she really was and believed herself to be completely in love with him and obeying his every whim. During her time under his controll Zinda became Queen Killer Shark and continued to battle the Blackhawks before they could free her from the effects of his chemical. Zinda was never able to really settle her score with Killer Shark. During the DC event Zero Hour, Zinda was sent forward in time to present day, where she struggled with the culture shock and worked for the Blackhawk Shipping Company, present day version of her former team. Arriving in the future, she befriends Guy Gardner and joins his team serving mainly as his pilot putting her best skills to good use. Looking for a change, she accepted Oracle's offer to join the Birds of Prey and left behind her part in the Blackhawk Company, taking only the Aeirie One Citation X and becoming pilot for the Birds. Zinda enjoys cooking, dancing, and drinking in her spare time. There is a running gag through most issues of Birds of Prey about her strong love for alcohol, which, she boasts, she can order in 30 different languages. For a time, she had a crush on another one of Oracle's agents, Creote, only to find out he was gay, or "fancy" as she calls it. She is a valuable addition to the Birds of Prey and has become somewhat of a conscience for Oracle offering friendly advice here and there. Zinda is also the person who oifficially comes up with the teams name calling themselves the birds of prey. Zinda proves her self to be a usefull member of the team as her piloting skills has help the team get out of sticky situations. Zinda has also proven herself on the field once saving Black Canary from Harvest by shooting the supernatural force. After the death of Big Barda, Zinda mourns the death of her friend by visiting as many bars as she can (referring to it as a warriors wake) on the way to Edwards Air Force Base. During her journey Zinda befriends a cab driver named Massaud while at the same time she is being hunted by FalseFace and White Star who under orders of the Calculator who wishes to replace Zinda with False Face and finally learn the true identity of Oracle. The journey ends with Zinda and Massaud arriving at the bar of Edwards Air Force Base and tells the bartender to place a picture of Big Barda up next to her old comarades the Blackhawks. In a more recent storyline, Zinda is kiddnapped by Killer Shark II, a young fanboy jerk who is the grandson of one of her WWII foes, the original Killer Shark. She first encounters him after having drinks with team mate Huntress to deal with the events that led Metropolis to be seriously damaged and the now distant Oracle who feels responsible. Zinda sees the shadow of Killer Shark outside the bar but comes to theconclusion that she is halucinating due to being drunk. Later that night while asleep she wakes up to him spying on her through her window and chases him on the fire escape. Killer Shark pulls out his gun but Zinda marksmanship helps her shoot it out of his hand and land a punch on him. However Killer Shark is able to take the punch and return one back. He then reviels to her that he is not hear to kill her before he leaves. As Zinda returns to her appartment she finds written coordinates on her window to help her find him. Zinda tracks Killer Shark down and is drugged by him and forced to lead Killer Shark II to his grandfathers treasure. Huntress attempts to save Zinda only to end up fighting Queen Killer Shark. Because Huntress hesitates Zinda is able to knock her out, however Killer Shark decides not kill her as he wishes to use the his grand fathers chemical on her as well. After tying Huntress up Zinda finally leads Killer Shark to his grandfathers tressure. This causes Killer Shark to cry and to reveal that he had originally intended on killing her after he got his tressure but has changed his mind. As he leans in for a kiss, Zinda subconciouslly punches himbreaking his teeth and which causes Killer Shark to proceed with his original plan and kill her as she is forced to stand still but she snaps out of it with the help of teammate Huntress who arrives just in time to knock Killer Shark out.
I know I just recently showed an early Blackhawk story from World War II. The war is over for the Blackhawks here, unless you consider the...
From the cover of Who's Who #2; art by George Pérez. I never once looked to these profiles when writing my book for any kind of background information, probably because I always prefer to go to the source (original stories) for those things. But it occurred to me I might find something interesting, so I dug out all of my old Who's Whos and scanned the entries for Quality's characters. There's some gems here in the art. Most notably, Brian Bolland draws Lady Blackhawk, and Murphy Anderson draws the lion's share of the rest. A couple are pretty bad, but it's clear that the artists had to do a minimum of research in order to render the supporting cast and historical details. William Messner-Loebs (very crudely) drew the Human Bomb—who knew he was once an artist? Jerry Ordway, as always, turned in a gorgeous Black Condor. Not surprisingly, only the core 1970s Freedom Fighters, Plastic Man, and the Blackhawks made it into the original 26-volume Who's Who. The rest appeared in the subsequent Update volumes. The most curious of all of them are Captain Triumph and Doll Girl, who had never appeared in a DC Comics story. The Jester, Midnight, and Quicksilver appeared presumably because of their brief appearances in All-Star Squadron as well. The histories were largely up-to-date with post-Crisis continuity. This means they reflected the changes that Roy Thomas wrote into All-Star Squadron regarding the Earth-X characters/Freedom Fighters. Some things of note: By the time the Who's Who series reached the profiles for Phantom Lady, the Ray, and Uncle Sam, Crisis had ended and those profiles remarked that because the heroes "journeyed back to the dawn of time when history was changed, he still remembers his life on Earth-X." This was the premise for all heroes who's been to the dawn of time; they remembered life before the multiverse collapsed (Crisis #10-11). Profiles for Quicksilver, Midnight and Human Bomb do mention those characters' sidekicks, so somebody had been digging into old Quality Comics! I clipped out the illustrations to make a gallery below... Black Condor's powers are described as a "mutant ability to fly." This was an amendment from his Quality origin, told in Secret Origins #21. The Blackhawk entries are very brief but seem to reflect the 1980s version of the team, by Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle. There are revised entries for them in the Update volumes, which reflect the all new post-Crisis Blackhawks by Howard Chaykin. Captain Triumph, who was never a member of the All-Star Squadron or Freedom Fighters still warranted an entry. It mentions his sidekicks Biff and Kim. He was "last heard of in 1949." Curiously, Doll Girl's page omits any Earth-X history, in which she died. Kid Eternity was covered in the original Who's Who and after his Vertigo rebirth, he received a page in the loose leaf Who's Who #15 in 1992. The art in Midnight's page devotes a fair amount of space to some woman. Not sure who this is supposed to be, as his strip never featured a regular female character or girlfriend. Miss America's history reflects the retcons introduced in Young All-Stars and Secret Origins #26. Phantom Lady's entry mentions her familial connection to Starman, told in All-Star Squadron #41 (1985). Plastic Man's history excludes the crazy 1960s but does include his Quality adventures and his 1970s DC adventures (#11-20, 1976-77), when he worked for the "NBI." Quicksilver's states that he "battled Crime for nine years, then vanished." Uncle Sam's profile that also suggested that he may be the force that kept the other Freedom Fighters youthful for longer.
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The project is based on the 1941 comic book about WWII pilots who face down fantastical threats
