Synopsis
The bitter rivalry with Lt. Steve Savage escalates dramatically as the Balloon Buster's erratic aerial tactics become impossible for the German squadron to ignore. Hans von Hammer recognizes in Savage the exact dangerous quality he most distrusts on the battlefield: pure, lawless improvisation. Where the Rittmeister operates from a rigid, century-old Prussian military code, Savage operates strictly from raw frontier instinct—a wild factor that proves far harder to predict, counter, or ultimately hate in the silent clouds of the Western Front.
Collector Notes
The crucial middle chapter of the legendary three-part 'Hell's Angels' story arc continues to develop the profound psychological contrast between DC's two premier World War I aviation icons. Because Robert Kanigher was the original architectural creator of both Enemy Ace and the Balloon Buster, the crossover possesses a brilliant internal narrative coherence; both men function as perfect mirror opposites built to the same uncompromising moral specifications. Frank Thorne's stylized, highly organic line work delivers immense energy to the fluid layout panels
