Four Color #737

Milton Caniff's square-jawed aviator Steve Canyon dominates this 1956 Dell issue, rendered in vivid painted detail by cover artist George Wilson — binoculars in hand, flight jacket on, cap pulled low, while U.S. Air Force jets streak overhead and a rescue helicopter dangles a figure against a dramatic, smoke-lit sky. The cover tagline sets the tension perfectly: a "mock raid" invited the Civil Air Patrol along, but somebody crashed the party with real bullets. With interior work from Milton Caniff and Ray Bailey behind Paul S. Newman's story, this ten-cent adventure delivers the kind of cool-under-fire military action that made Steve Canyon a fixture of mid-1950s comics.