Alien Legion #16

The cover of this October 1986 Epic Comics entry puts a flame-haired female Legionnaire front and center, her gold-and-black armor blazing as she fires an energy weapon into a swarming mass of feral, beast-like creatures closing in from every direction — with a canine-featured alien comrade armed with a rifle visible just behind her and a looming dark figure leaping through the eerie purple sky above. Frank Cirocco's cover work captures the desperate, outnumbered intensity promised by the story title "Demons" — this is a squad fighting hard just to hold its ground. Inside, writer Alan Zelenetz and artist Larry Stroman carry the Legion's trademark blend of gritty science-fiction and diverse alien camaraderie through another chapter of their ongoing saga.