2000 AD #26

From August 1977, 2000 AD Prog 26 delivers a vivid alien invasion splash as armored, green-skinned warriors mounted on snarling beast-mounts charge forward beneath a menacing alien world, their speech bubble booming "Greetings, Earthmen! We are the first of The Satan Horde!" — a genuinely unsettling promise of things to come. The cover also teases "The Waterspeed King" among the prog's contents, and reminds readers to start collecting the six-part full-colour Postergraph series running through the title. At just 9p Earth Money, this weekly slice of British sci-fi mayhem captures everything that made 2000 AD such a bold, restless comic in its first year of orbit.