Hawkman #10

This 1965 DC issue puts Hawkman right in the thick of it — the winged hero swoops through a swirling energy field, mace in hand, while a suited CAW agent levels a futuristic laser-beam gun at him and a seven-way stun-gun crackles in the foreground, making good on the cover's promise of "way-out weapons." The threat is nothing less than CAW — the Criminal Alliance of the World — billed as a secret war more dangerous than either the Cold War or the Hot War. Murphy Anderson's crisp, dynamic cover work captures both the aerial energy of Hawkman's flight and the gadget-heavy menace of the story "Hawkman Clips the Claws of CAW!