This is a science fiction story in four parts by Scott Hampton, Bruce Jones and April Campbell, published by Eclipse as part of their "Graphic Album Series".
Y'know, I always thought this was an original work, but checking before writing this I find it was originally a series from Pacific in 1983-1984, which lasted three issues. I know Jones wrote/edited multiple anthology books for Pacific, some later picked up by Eclipse, but didn't know about this. The Silverheels story was the lead in every issue and there were various backups. This book collects the three existing stories and adds a fourth longer story to finish it up.
The story is about Silverheels, a member of a Native American tribe called the "'Pachees", who are oppressed and subjugated by the pale blond-haired "Nazites", held in compounds which the Nazites keep secret from the aliens who have invited humanity to join the Intergalactic Council. Silverheels has vague telepathic dreaming powers which make him an outcast to his own people, and manages to escape into a Nazite base just as a group of candidates are being taken to space by the Council to see who will represent Earth as Lawkeeper. Silverheels manages to make himself a candidate among the master race types the Nazites have put up.
I think it might have printed a little darker than it should have, sometimes it's hard to make out what's going on, and there are a few other production issues, like the first page is clearly meant to have a Silverheels logo after the caption finishes with "I am...", probably did in the original comic, here the sentence just dangles. A few other pages suddenly have larger lettering, so I'm guessing were blown up from the original.
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