Alien Legion #9

The cover of Alien Legion #9 (August 1985) throws you right into the heat of battle — a horned alien legionnaire sprints forward carrying an unconscious human companion while energy blasts tear up the ground around them and armored soldiers exchange fire amid a wall of flame in the background. Chris Warner's pencils and Frank Cirocco's inks give the scene a raw, kinetic urgency that captures the dangerous, multi-species world of Epic Comics' far-future military series perfectly. With a story titled "Rude Awakening," this issue looks like it delivers exactly the kind of desperate, under-fire action that made Alien Legion one of Marvel's most distinctive 1985 offerings.