Blackhawk #11

This summer 1946 issue from Quality Comics presents the Blackhawk squadron in an eye-catching checkerboard design, with the faces of seven distinct team members — including a mustachioed elder, two blond fighters, a dark-haired figure, a crew-cut soldier, and the cap-wearing Blackhawk himself — arranged around the team's bold hawk emblem at center. The cover by Al Bryant promises "Action Thrills" in abundance, and the interior story, "Starnak the Dictator," sounds like exactly the kind of high-stakes adventure this globe-trotting aerial team was built for. At just ten cents, this Summer Issue No. 11 is a fine snapshot of mid-1940s adventure comics doing what they did best.