The Brave and the Bold #44

From the pages of The Brave and the Bold comes this November 1962 showcase for Hawkman, rendered with tremendous energy by Joe Kubert's cover art. The winged warrior soars through open space armed with a medieval flail, squaring off against a helmeted, alien-suited figure piloting a sleek yellow spacecraft — a striking visual contrast between ancient weaponry and futuristic technology that the cover spells out perfectly: "Armed with a weapon of the past, the Winged Wonder battles against weapons of the future." Gardner Fox's story, "Earth's Impossible Day!," promises the kind of cosmic imagination that made DC's early 1960s output so captivating, and Kubert's dynamic linework makes this one genuinely hard to put down before you've even opened the cover.