Marvel Preview #13

Marvel Preview #13 delivers one of 1978's most atmospheric magazine-format offerings, with Jim Starlin's painted cover pulling you straight into a world of cosmic unease — a sleek flying saucer crackling with electric energy hovers above a darkened pyramid, while a cloaked figure stands at its glowing apex and two desperate figures are hurled through a storm-lit sky. The promise of "our world in a secret war with beings from beyond the stars" sets the stage for David Anthony Kraft and Herb Trimpe's novel-length graphic story, with inks by Klaus Janson and lettering by Annette Kawecki. Rounding out this ambitious package are features on "Pyramid Power," a Robert Anton Wilson piece on the Illuminati, and UFO accounts tied to names like John Lennon and Jimmy Carter — making this a genuinely eclectic time capsule of late-'70s paranormal fascination.