Star Wars #69

Marvel's Star Wars #69 from March 1983 delivers a cover that practically leaps off the newsstand — Tom Palmer's pencils and inks place a speeding open-topped hovercraft dead center, its passengers reeling as a massive spider-like mechanical walker looms overhead with claws outstretched, while laser blasts streak through a murky, overgrown landscape and a second craft races in from the right. Tucked in the upper corner, C-3PO and R2-D2 watch the chaos unfold, grounding the scene firmly in the galaxy far, far away. With the ominous story title "Death in the City of Bone!" and interior work by writer David Michelinie and artist Gene Day, this issue promises plenty of tension to match that gripping cover.