Marvel Super Special #37

Marvel Super Special #37 brings readers the official comics adaptation of the 1984 film 2010, and Tom Palmer's cover sets a suitably cosmic mood — a mysterious monolith dominates the foreground, a ghostly face eerily visible within its dark surface, while planets, spacecraft, and a blazing stellar burst fill the vast space behind it. The creative team inside is equally impressive, with J. M. DeMatteis adapting the screenplay by Peter Hyams (itself drawn from Arthur C. Clarke's novel), with interior art by Joe Barney and Larry Hama, and inking and colors by Palmer himself. For fans of science fiction comics, this oversized magazine-format special is a genuinely compelling artifact of 1984's big-screen ambitions translated into sequential art.