Blackhawk #218

From the pages of DC's long-running aviation-adventure series comes Blackhawk #218 (March 1966), promising "Another Tale from the Combat Diary" alongside a special feature. Dick Dillin and Charles Cuidera's cover thrusts the Blackhawks into chaos as a monstrous creature — billed as the Plantimal, "half-plant, half-animal, and all murder!" — crashes through a prison fence, its writhing vine-like limbs scattering the team in every direction while two captive figures debate in an inset panel whether it's arrived to free them or devour them. The cover's blend of creature-feature dread and squad-level action makes this 12-cent issue a fine snapshot of mid-1960s DC adventure storytelling at its most energetically imaginative.