Star Trek #5

This 1969 Gold Key issue draws straight from the television series, using production photography to put Captain Kirk — reclined and seemingly incapacitated — alongside a tense, phaser-wielding Mr. Spock framed in a separate panel above him. The bold cover tagline "TRICKED!" sets an ominous tone, with the accompanying text promising a story where saving a planet from extinction somehow leads Kirk and Spock into the clutches of its own war-mad leaders. It's a compelling snapshot of Star Trek storytelling at its most morally tangled, and the photo-cover format gives it an immediacy that feels genuinely cinematic for a 15-cent comic.