Hawkman #3

The cover by Richard Howell and Don Heck delivers a frantically layered scene: in the foreground, a helmeted Hawkman cradles a distressed golden-haired woman while a shadowy, dark-caped figure looms overhead, grappling with a winged, hawk-emblazoned figure in the upper right. The stark cover copy warns that Hawkman has already lost his secret identity — and may lose his life in four seconds flat — raising the stakes beautifully for Tony Isabella's "Secrets, Shadows and Sinners!" This 1986 issue is a tense, visually dynamic entry in the series that fans of the Winged Wonder won't want to skip.