Blackhawk #80

Blackhawk #80 from Quality Comics pitches the whole squadron into a wild subterranean menace, with the cover tagline "Out of the Depth of the Earth Came… The Death Digger" setting a wonderfully pulpy 1954 tone. Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera deliver a gripping scene: Blackhawk himself strains to hold back a massive, glowing drill-nosed boring machine as it bursts upward through shattered rock, while a fellow squad member scrambles with a heavy weapon nearby and the familiar portrait gallery of the full Blackhawk team looks on from the masthead. It's a tense, kinetic cover that captures everything readers loved about this long-running adventure series.