Marvel Comics: Timeless Tales #[nn]

In "Cynophobia," Howard Chaykin crafts a haunting wartime tale of Hauptman Altburger, a German ace whose forbidden passion for Jazz music becomes his quiet rebellion. As his plane goes down at the war’s end, his final hope is a distant, fading melody from the legendary Brad Mitchell and his band—music that echoes across the chaos of history. The story, illustrated and inked by Chaykin with color by Edgar Delgado and letters by Ken Bruzenak, is a stark, evocative meditation on art, loss, and the ghosts that linger in the silence after the guns fall. The cover, a collaborative effort by Nic Klein, Dan Panosian, Mike McKone, and John Tyler Christopher, captures the mood with a haunting, stylized vision of a lone figure beneath a storm-wracked sky.