New Gods #3

New Gods #3 (On Sale: April 22, 1971), has an interesting cover by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta. I'm not normally a fan of Kirby's photo-covers, but this one works for me.

This issue features "Death Is the Black Racer" written and penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Vince Colletta. The Black Racer, a sky-skiing harbinger of Death to the people of New Genesis, is Boom Tubed by Metron to Earth. There he stops an Inter-Gang thug from killing Willie Walker, a paraplegic black Viet Nam vet. The Racer merges with Walker's body, giving him mobility, and tracks down and destroys an Apokolips device that would have shorted out all communications devices for thousands of miles. 

Afterwards, the Black Racer separates from Willie Walker's body and leaves him in his bed, to remerge with him when he is needed. Reprinted in New Gods #2 (1984), Jack Kirby's New Gods TPB (1998), Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2007), Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 TPB (2012), and New Gods by Jack Kirby TPB (2018).

Edited by Jack Kirby.