Battlestar Galactica #15

Marvel's Battlestar Galactica #15 (1980) promises a tense, unsettling adventure with its cover story tag: "Ship of Crawling Death!" Walter Simonson's cover art — both penciled and inked by Simonson himself — plunges us into a harrowing scene aboard what appears to be a ruined vessel, where a figure in a vivid yellow hazard suit and respirator stands their ground, firing a blazing energy beam at a monstrous, dark creature with glowing red eyes, while fallen bodies litter the debris-strewn floor around them. A Cylon warrior looms in a small inset at the top left, and the overall composition crackles with the sense that whatever lurks on this derelict ship is far worse than anything the Colonial fleet has faced before.