Blackhawk #235

From DC's "New Blackhawk Era" comes this August 1967 issue subtitled "A Coffin for a Blackhawk!" — and the cover by Dick Dillin and Charles Cuidera makes the stakes immediately clear: a massive, tattered-green-shirted brute looms over an open coffin, dangling a chained figure clad in striking gold armor bearing a skull-and-crossbones emblem, purple smoke swirling ominously around them both. Writer Bob Haney and artist Dick Dillin deliver the kind of pulpy, larger-than-life tension that defined adventure comics in 1967, and that chain-bound golden hero straining against his captor promises a story that wastes no time getting to the action.