Star Trek #57

From Gold Key's long-running Star Trek series comes this 1978 installment featuring "Spore of the Devil." George Wilson's cover puts the Enterprise crew in a tense standoff on an alien world, with Spock and two fellow crew members — one in gold, one in red — backing toward a strange conical spacecraft while a cloaked, weathered alien figure levels a weapon at them from the foreground. A photo inset of Kirk and Spock anchors the cover's familiar Star Trek identity, and the tagline — "Cornered by an alien being, frantic to know who he is!" — hints at a story with real emotional stakes. Writer Arnold Drake and artist A. McWilliams bring their talents to the interior, making this a well-crafted entry in Gold Key's corner of the Trek universe.