Battlestar Galactica #23

Marvel's Battlestar Galactica run comes to a close with this January 1981 finale, proudly bannered "Last Issue!" right on the cover. Walter Simonson's cover art puts the spotlight on a hulking, throne-seated pirate lord flanked by two armed companions — a blond figure on the left and a dark-haired gunslinger on the right — all set against a dramatic deep-space backdrop, teasing the story titled "The Last Hiding Place." With Walt Simonson writing and drawing the interiors, inked by Klaus Janson and colored by Glynis Wein, this send-off issue delivers the kind of bold, confident craft that made this series a worthy companion to Glen Larson's television saga.