Space: 1999 [magazine] comic books issue 8

Painted cover by Gray Morrow. Stories and art by Mike Pellowski, Carlos Pino, Carl Potts, Doug Beekman, Vincente Alcazar and Ed Davis. Moon colonists become involuntary space explorers when the moon is blasted out of orbit; based on the classic sci-fi TV series. On the planet Psychon, the colonists encounter Mentor, the scientist who wants to use their living brains for his computer. Luckily, his shape-shifting daughter Maya resists Mentor's strange experiments, and joins forces with Moonbase Alpha, in an adaptation of the second-season episode that introduced Maya in the TV series. Maya earns the trust of the colonists when she defends Moonbase Alpha against the shape-shifting alien Nucleon. Behind the scenes of the filming of season 2 of the series, including photos of guest stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Nice painted cover by the legendary Gray Morrow introduces the Maya character to the comics, and serves as a dynamic coup de grace to the series. Plus text features on human-engineered satellites and space probes. A New Star in Our Galaxy; The Metamorph; Man Made Moons; The Primary Life Form; Scanning the Solar System. Final issue of the series. 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.00.