Blackhawk #77

This June 1954 Quality Comics issue puts Blackhawk front and center in his distinctive blue uniform and red cap, lunging forward as a massive, menacing jet-propelled machine tears through buildings and sends a tank flying behind him — chaos rendered with real energy by cover artists Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera. The portrait heads of the full Blackhawk squadron ring the top of the cover, reminding readers that this is very much a team book, even as the action below feels urgent and overwhelming. "Jet-Propelled Terror!" promises the kind of high-stakes adventure that made this series a ten-cent must-have in 1954.