When one thinks of comic books, usually images of super-powered heroes who can fly, toss around tanks or defy the laws of physics with how fast they can run spring to mind. Since the first appearance of Superman in 1938, superheroes have almost always gotten the recognition and fame when it comes to being the stars of the comic world. This was the case even back in the “golden age” of comic books, though there were heroes who were just everyday folks, fighting for justice, without capes and cowls.

The Blackhawk series is a prime example of this. It featured the title character and his team of pilots striving to save the world from both mundane and extraordinary threats. The Blackhawk series in the late 1950s gave birth to one of my personal favorite “human” characters of the DC universe: ...