The Brave and the Bold #26

From the November 1959 pages of The Brave and the Bold comes this wild Task Force X adventure, "The Sun Curse!" — promising that "the mightiest task force in the world becomes the tiniest." Ross Andru and Mike Esposito's cover delivers an immediately gripping scene: a man wielding a flaming torch battles an enormous white eagle that clutches a bound woman in its talons, while other squad members scramble atop a crate marked "Universal Match Co." as seagulls swirl around them on the open water. It's a wonderfully strange and inventive image that captures the Suicide Squad's brand of against-all-odds peril at its most imaginative.