Alien Legion #8

This 1988 Marvel entry in the Alien Legion series hits hard with a fiery, tension-soaked cover by penciler Larry Stroman and inker Frank Cirocco — a blonde woman in a space suit looks up in wide-eyed alarm while a grim-faced man reaches toward her, both figures engulfed in a cascade of spacecraft and debris rendered in scorching reds and oranges. The title "Duty Elsewhere" suggests the Legion's far-flung missions pull its members in conflicting directions, and that cover energy makes it easy to believe the stakes are personal as well as galactic. With Chuck Dixon and Carl Potts co-writing and Larry Stroman handling interior art, this issue delivers the gritty, multi-species science fiction action that made Alien Legion one of Marvel's more distinctive genre books of the era.