Star Trek #10

From Gold Key's 1971 run of Star Trek, this issue poses a tantalizing premise right on its cover: "Science vs. Sorcery — The Enterprise and Her Crew Are Snared in a Wizard's Magic!" George Wilson's painted cover depicts a turbaned, bare-chested sorcerer wielding a curved blade and levitating through space, holding the USS Enterprise aloft in one outstretched hand while photo portraits of Spock and Kirk look on from the upper corner. Writer Len Wein and artist Alberto Giolitti bring the story — titled "Sceptre of the Sun" — to life inside, promising a collision between Starfleet's rational universe and something altogether more mysterious.