Hawk and Dove #26

This August 1991 issue pairs a somber, beautifully rendered cover — penciled by Jerome Moore — with the promise of a "special introductory tale" subtitled "When It Began…," making it a welcoming entry point into the world of Hawk and Dove. The cover image is quietly devastating: Hawk, in his red-and-white costume and flowing cape, kneels grief-stricken before a gravestone reading "In Memoriam — Donald Hall, R.I.P.," while Dove watches nearby with a hand raised to her mouth, birds scattering through the autumnal sky above. Inside, Barbara Kesel leads the creative team — alongside artists Tom Grindberg and Greg Guler and inker Scott Hanna — on what the cover teases as a reflective look back at how it all started for this complicated duo.