Blackhawk #10

This January 1990 DC series entry from writer Martin Pasko and artist Rick Burchett puts two Blackhawk-uniformed figures center stage in a tense, close-quarters confrontation — a woman with flowing blonde hair grabs at a man whose pistol is blazing at point-blank range, both wearing the squadron's familiar blue-and-gold. Burchett's cover linework crackles with kinetic energy, set against an industrial backdrop of pipes and steel that gives the whole scene a gritty, espionage-thriller feel. With the mature-readers label and a story titled "Lazarus Doesn't Lie Here Any More," this issue promises the kind of morally complicated drama that defined this late-'80s reinvention of the classic wartime team.