Blackhawk #100

The cover of this April 1956 Quality Comics entry promises intense aerial and ground combat, with a Blackhawk squadron member descending by parachute into the thick of a chaotic battlefield — explosions erupting nearby while enemy soldiers in red-star insignia clash with blue-uniformed fighters amid a flurry of rifles and scrambling combatants. Dick Dillin's pencils and Chuck Cuidera's inks pack the composition with urgent, kinetic energy, from the transport aircraft and additional chutes dotting the smoke-filled sky to the hand-to-hand struggle erupting at ground level. Titled "The War That Never Ended," issue #99 captures everything that made Blackhawk one of comics' most dependably thrilling adventure series of the era.