“Welcome to BattleTech!” in 1987

This full-page introduction to the BattleTech game and world comes from the first issue of Blackthorne’s BattleForce comic, one of three different comic books based on BattleTech that the company published in the eighties. This overview of the game setting is fun and all, but it is the promise that the comic stories are “presentations of actual games that the book’s creators have played.” How does that not inspire you to want to run out and grab a copy of the game and start playing right away?