Modern Comics #99

This Quality Comics anthology from July 1950 puts the Blackhawks squarely in science-fiction territory, with the cover headline promising lunar conquest and all-out conflict on the Moon's surface. The cover — inked by Chuck Cuidera — depicts several figures in space suits on a rocky moonscape, including a woman in a red jacket brandishing a pistol while two Blackhawk team members in their distinctive blue uniforms look on, and an armed figure crouches in the foreground. At issue #99, Modern Comics was delivering the kind of bold, forward-looking adventure that made Quality Comics a standout publisher of the era.