U.S. Air Force Comics #35

The crew of the bomber "Sweet Suzy" faces their first devastating raid over Berlin in 1943, with pilot Captain Henry Lake and his co-pilot struggling to keep the damaged aircraft aloft after dropping their payload on the Nazi capital. Crippled by flak and enemy fire, with wounded men aboard and engines failing, the crew must use cunning and discipline to outmaneuver a German fighter pilot determined to finish them off. It's a tense, seat-of-your-pants account of airmen fighting not just the enemy, but their own failing machine to make it home.

When an Air Force sergeant hijacks a jet fighter from a European base with classified technical blueprints, Major Joe Mixler is scrambled to intercept the fugitive aircraft—but the confrontation that follows may not be what it appears. "Jet Getaway" is a tense Cold War thriller that questions whether the man behind the controls is truly the enemy, or a pawn in a larger conspiracy.

PFC. Andy Brothers dreams of trading the trenches of World War I for the sky, and when a broken-down warplane gives him the chance to prove himself as a mechanic and pilot, he takes it—unauthorized joyride and all. What starts as a daring solo flight over his own unit's position becomes something far bigger when he discovers he can help turn the tide of battle from above, inspiring a new kind of warfare that will save his muddy, outnumbered friends.

A visionary look at aviation's future in this 1964 piece explores the remarkable possibility of a supersonic airliner designed for the 1970s—a massive aircraft that could cruise at three-and-a-half times the speed of sound and carry over a hundred passengers. The story presents a mind-bending paradox: thanks to crossing time zones at such extraordinary speed, a passenger could theoretically arrive at their destination before they departed, traveling backward in time through the sheer ingenuity of aeronautical engineering.

Captain Vic Lundeen lives for combat flying—a former bank teller who found his true calling as a hot-shot jet pilot in Korea, racking up victories in MIG Alley with fearless abandon. When one of his own pilots is shot down behind enemy lines, Lundeen abandons the skies to mount a dangerous ground rescue, only to discover that his real test isn't in the cockpit or the trenches, but in a role that forces him to confront the human cost of the war he loves.