Blackhawk #31

This Quality Comics issue from 1950 sets up a tense scene right on its Reed Crandall–penciled cover: Blackhawk himself, in his distinctive blue uniform and hawk emblem, lunges forward as an unseen hand levels a revolver at a alarmed blonde woman in red, while two fellow Blackhawks look on warily and the team's comic-relief member Chop-Chop cringes nearby. The cover copy asks pointedly, "What diabolical plot could drive a wedge between the inseparable comrades?" — a question that gives "The Treachery of Stanislaus" an immediate charge of intrigue and betrayal that pulls you straight inside.