Blackhawk #96

Quality Comics delivers a gripping undersea adventure with this 1956 issue, its cover by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera plunging two purple-uniformed Blackhawks into a tense deep-sea struggle — one masked with a breathing apparatus, both swimming hard past a circling shark and a yellow submarine labeled Sea Hawk resting on the coral-strewn ocean floor. The tagline "Doom in the Deep" perfectly captures the dangerous underwater mood, with jet aircraft streaking through the water above and rocky canyon walls hemming the heroes in on all sides. With interior art also by Dillin and Cuidera and a story by Joe Millard titled "Seven Graves for Seven Blackhawks," this issue promises the kind of pulse-quickening ensemble action that made the series a standout of its era.