Blackhawk #63

This Quality Comics gem from 1953 puts you right in the cockpit alongside Blackhawk as enemy gunfire shatters his canopy, an enemy jet bearing down on him against a blazing orange sky — Reed Crandall's cover art practically puts the wind in your face. The portraits of the full Blackhawk squadron ringing the title remind you that this ace never flies alone, even when the headline warns "Blackhawk Loses His Wings." With a lead story titled "The Attack to End the World," issue #63 promises the kind of high-stakes aerial adventure that made this series a standout of early 1950s action comics.