Blackhawk #65

Blackhawk #65 from Quality Comics (June 1953) promises some seriously unsettling science-fiction intrigue with its lead story "The City of Mindless Men." The cover, penciled and inked by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera, lays out a tense tableau: a uniformed figure is strapped into a crackling mind-control device while a medal-wearing villain operates the machinery in the foreground, and a squad of blank-faced soldiers in dark uniforms bursts through a shattering window — with a sinister small figure watching from the side. Framed by the familiar portrait medallions of the full Blackhawk squadron along the borders, this issue radiates that punchy Cold War-era pulp energy that made the series such a treat throughout the early 1950s.