John Romita Sr. provided artwork for the first four issues of the Marvel Droids series as well as the cover for issue #5.
Droids #5a - Marvel Comics, U.S. (December 1986)
The cover shows Kirk Windjammer pulling R2-D2 away from C-3PO. This scene never occurs inside the issue but is symbolic of the story inside. C-3PO and R2-D2 find themselves on the planet R-Duba in search of a new master and give themselves to Van P. Quist who runs The Droid Store. Later on, Kirk is in the shop looking for a droid for his ship and purchases only R2-D2 separating the pair, a possibility the droids had not considered. Instead, C-3PO is later bought by Baron Starlock to work at Prince Jagoda's palace.
Mala Stripoteka #4a - Marketprint, Yugoslavia (March 1990) contains Droids #5
I had inquired about the cover for Mala Stripoteka #4 in an earlier posting and it turns out the artwork by John Romita is from a Droids comic advertisement. I stumbled across the image on Paxton Holley's Flicker account.
Droids comic advertisement
As I had surmised, the alien driving the landspeeder is Governor Kugg from the planet Dodz as told in Droids #1. He is just colored differently for the Mala Stripoteka cover.
I like that the artwork from this advertisement was repurposed for the Yugoslavia issue, but the U.S. cover is my preference because it relates to the story inside.
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