Star Wars #3

Right in the heat of Marvel's 1977 adaptation of "the greatest space-fantasy film of all," this third issue promises a showdown on the Death Star itself. Gil Kane and Tom Palmer's cover surges with energy — a roaring Chewbacca lunges forward clutching a blaster, flanked by Princess Leia firing into the fray, Han Solo with weapon drawn, and Luke Skywalker brandishing a lightsaber, while a Stormtrooper looms in the foreground. With Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin bringing George Lucas's galaxy to the page, "Battle on the Death Star!" is pulse-raising adventure rendered in vivid Bronze Age style.