Jungle Action #24

A rooftop battle dominates this November 1976 cover, where the Black Panther takes a fierce kick from Wind Eagle — a green-costumed aerial fighter whose ambiguous allegiance is teased right on the cover: "Is he hero, villain — or both?!" Gil Kane's pencils and Dan Adkins' inks give the confrontation a real kinetic jolt, with the city skyline dropping away beneath the two combatants and that blazing orange sky adding a sense of real urgency. Don McGregor's "Wind Eagle in Flight" promises exactly the kind of morally textured storytelling that made his Jungle Action Black Panther run so compelling in its era.