Johnny Hazard: 1st Brandy (tryout panel)

This is a panel from a Johnny Hazard daily drawn before the strip actually began, more specifically from the second tryout daily Robbins drew. It's an alternative version of a scene talking place approximately a month into the published run of the strip (July 7, 1944), where Hazard first meets beautiful photographer Brandy – a key moment in Hazard-ous history. The first month of Hazard dailies presented an introductory airplane/air battle sequence establishing the strip and characters, but it's not until this scene with Brandy that Robbins began exploring the relationships between characters in the strip. This might therefore have been the first scene Robbins nailed down when he was planning his new feature and it's surely one of the earliest pieces of hazard art to have survived.