Epic Illustrated #6

Marvel's Epic Illustrated — billed as "The Marvel Magazine of Adult Fantasy" — hits its science-fiction stride with this June 1981 special issue, highlighted by an adaptation of Harlan Ellison's "Life Hutch." Neal Adams's cover delivers a tense, kinetic scene: a spacesuited figure armed with a weapon stands her ground amid a tangle of whipping alien tendrils and strange organic forms, with sleek spacecraft visible in the smoke-filled background. It's a vivid promise of the ambitious, adult-oriented SF storytelling waiting inside.