U.S. Air Force Comics #22

High-altitude tension crackles off this 1962 Charlton issue as a helmeted pilot reacts in alarm while enemy gunfire — rendered with a vivid "RATATATAT" sound effect — shatters his cockpit canopy, with a jet aircraft bearing down through the fractured glass just beyond his instrument panel. The cover pencils by Charles Nicholas and inks by Vince Alascia give the scene a gripping, immediate energy that pulls you right into the cockpit. With interior work by writer Joe Gill and artist Bill Molno on "The High Perilous Path," this is a fine slice of early-'60s aviation adventure comics doing what they did best.