2000 AD #302

This February 1983 prog from IPC's beloved weekly anthology pulls no punches with a genuinely unsettling cover by Alan Davis: a wild-haired, elderly-looking figure grins with manic glee, his face partially torn away to reveal gleaming cybernetic machinery beneath — a speech bubble erupting with a chilling "HEE! HEE! HEE!" The cover banner identifies him as Ben Ninety, Android, promising the kind of darkly comic science-fiction that made 2000 AD essential reading. Inside, Alan Hebden and Redondo continue their "Play It Again, Sam" saga, rounding out a prog packed with the sharp storytelling that defined the Galaxy's Greatest Comic in its early-'80s prime.