Fightin' Air Force #52

Charlton's self-proclaimed "America's Greatest Air-War Comic" delivers another sky-full of aerial action in this 1965 issue, featuring the series' American Eagle character alongside teasers spotlighting a "Super Fighter," a "New Ace," and "The Eagle" himself in circular portrait vignettes. The cover — penciled by Pat Masulli and inked by Rocco Mastroserio — puts you right in the thick of it, with a U.S. fighter pulling a hard dive against a pack of enemy aircraft amid trails of smoke and fire, all tied to the interior story "Tokyo Tomahawks." Written by Joe Gill with art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia, this is a solid entry in Charlton's reliable line of wartime aviation anthologies.