Gwandanaland Comics #572

Collecting all seven issues of Milton Caniff's Dell Four-Color run, this 2017 Gwandanaland Comics volume brings together the complete Steve Canyon series in one handy package. The cover reproduces the striking painted art from Dell Four-Color #519, where a square-jawed, leather-jacketed Steve Canyon strides forward gripping a submachine gun, while behind him a man and a woman in an orange skirt struggle near a small propeller aircraft under stormy skies — tension crackling in every brushstroke. It's a vivid snapshot of the adventure-serial energy that made Caniff's ace pilot and Air Force trouble-shooter such a compelling figure in mid-century comics.