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Horror. Sci-fi. DC. Janos Prohaska was a Polish flying ace who started the Blackhawk Squadron. He grew up in the city of Krakow in his native Poland and joined the Polish Air Force at a young age. Janos gained world renown during the Spanish Civil War, in which he fought on the side of the Republicans against the...
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History. Janos Prohaska. Nicknamed Blackhawk, Janos Prohaska was the leader of a group of war pilots called the Blackhawk Squadron. They fought in World War II (WWII). Just about each...
During the late 1980s revamp of the DC Comics character Blackhawk by Howard Chaykin, the leader of the eponymous group of World War II fighters was revealed to be named Janos Prohaska, in tribute to the actor.
Major Janos Prohaska (Blackhawk) – Reestablished as being born and raised in Poland, Prohaska is portrayed as the consummate leader, but also as a brash, hard-drinking womanizer. He is also revealed to have been a member of the Communist Party, expelled by Joseph Stalin after opposing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , a 1939 treaty of non ...
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CHRONOLOGY. Blackhawk first appeared in Military Comics #1 (August 1941) [Quality] (original version); Blackhawk Vol. 2 #1 (March 1988) (modern version). Below is the definitive list of appearances of Blackhawk in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note.
