Star Wars #45

Marvel's Star Wars #45 from March 1981 carries the ominous tagline "Death Probe!" right on its cover, and the image delivers — a menacing mechanical probe droid fires a blinding energy beam at a desperate, reeling figure while C-3PO and R2-D2 look on from the upper corner. Cover pencils by Larry Hama and inks by Al Milgrom give the scene a raw, kinetic charge that makes the threat feel genuinely dangerous. With Archie Goodwin writing and Carmine Infantino on interior art, this is a solid chapter in Marvel's long-running Star Wars saga.