Star Trek #11

A massive serpentine creature coils around the U.S.S. Enterprise against a star-filled backdrop, and the cover's inset panels capture Kirk and Spock locked in urgent debate — with Spock insisting the monster simply cannot exist while Kirk demands to know what, then, is tearing his ship apart. Cover art by Joe Brozowski and Tom Palmer gives the scene a wonderfully tense energy, balancing cosmic spectacle with that classic Kirk-and-Spock dynamic. Part of Marvel's early-1980s run with the franchise, this February 1981 issue promises the kind of high-stakes space mystery the series does so well.