2000 AD and Starlord #124

Prog 124 of 2000 AD and Starlord hits newsstands in August 1979 with a cover by Carlos Ezquerra that's hard to ignore — a hulking, insectoid alien called Kil-Gorr, self-proclaimed Intergalactic Hitman, lunges forward wielding a massive weapon while an enormous, many-eyed creature looms in the darkness behind him. The speech bubble's boast — "Flee in terror, Earthlets!" — sets the tone perfectly for a weekly anthology that took British sci-fi comics to bold new places. Inside, John Howard and Ron Smith continue "Father Earth Part 3," and the cover teases that even Tharg himself isn't safe from an assassination attempt.