Star Trek #50

Gold Key's Star Trek reaches issue #50 with a haunting cover that sets the stakes immediately — a lone figure reaches desperately skyward on a barren, skull-littered alien landscape while the Enterprise drifts among strange planets overhead, and a photo inset of Kirk and Spock reminds us exactly who's in jeopardy. The tagline "Kirk must die for the Evictors to survive!" paired with the story title "Planet of No Life" promises the kind of eerie, life-or-death sci-fi that made this series a favorite among Trek fans of the late 1970s. Writer Arnold Drake and artist/inker A. McWilliams deliver a visually atmospheric entry that captures the loneliness and danger of deep-space exploration at its most foreboding.