Beware #4

Marvel's 1973 horror anthology Beware! hits a nerve with issue #4, where Gil Kane's pencils and Frank Giacoia's inks depict two terrified figures — a screaming blonde woman in red and a man in a raincoat — being seized by the writhing, grasping tendrils of a living tree during a stormy night. The cover's rain-lashed chaos and the desperate speech bubbles ("Th-that tree — it's alive!") set an effectively unsettling mood that promises readers they'll come face to face with "The Thing on Haunted Hill." At just 20¢, this is a fine slice of Marvel's early-'70s monster revival, with Stan Lee at the writing helm and John Tartaglione handling the interior art.