Blackhawk #252

The War Wheel lives up to its ominous name on Dave Cockrum's cover for this 1982 DC issue — a massive, spike-studded red mechanical behemoth dominates the sky while a blue-uniformed Blackhawk fires his pistol defiantly up at it, buildings crumbling beneath them and aerial dogfights erupting in the background. The tagline "Nothing Can Stop… The War Wheel!" sets a genuinely daunting tone, and the sheer scale of the machine against our determined hero makes it easy to see why this villain has such a fearsome reputation. With Mark Evanier writing and Dan Spiegle handling interior art, this issue delivers the kind of pulpy, high-stakes adventure that made the Blackhawk series a perennial favorite.