Four Color #1294

Based on the hit CBS television series, this 1962 Dell adaptation brings the high-altitude thrills of Ripcord to the comics page, with photos of stars Larry Pennell and Ken Curtis featured right on the cover. The artwork plunges readers straight into the action — a daredevil parachutist in a bright yellow jumpsuit and red helmet tumbles through the sky above a rugged mountain landscape, a red-and-white chute deploying below while stranded figures cling to the rocky cliffs and a small aircraft banks in the distance. Ted McKeever and Jim Buckley are on a daring parachute rescue mission to save marooned mountaineers, and "The Bottomless Jump" — brought to life by writer Paul S. Newman and artist Ray Bailey — promises exactly the nerve-wracking adventure that title suggests.