Hawkworld #8

High above a city skyline, Hawkman — winged helmet gleaming, arm-mounted weapon firing point-blank — sends a civilian-clad figure reeling backward off a rooftop ledge in a viscerally dramatic confrontation. Graham Nolan's cover for "Talons" captures the raw tension of a hero willing to operate on the razor's edge, framed against a sun-drenched urban canyon of glass and steel. With John Ostrander and Timothy Truman's gritty storytelling sensibility behind it, this February 1991 issue promises the kind of street-level intensity that made the Hawkworld series stand apart from conventional superhero fare.