Dead of Night #11

The mid-1970s Marvel horror anthology Dead of Night closes out its run in striking fashion with this issue, spotlighting the Scarecrow in a story titled "Enter: The Scarecrow." The cover, penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Bernie Wrightson, is a genuinely unsettling piece of work — the straw-hatted, red-scarfed Scarecrow looms out of a full moon against a field of yellow flames, while a robed figure clutches a swooning woman in the foreground, the whole scene underscored by the tantalizing tag "A Fearsome Night-Prowler vs. A Centuries-Old Cult of Blood!" Inside, writer Scott Edelman and artist Rico Rival bring that confrontation to life, with Glynis Wein's colors setting the tone for a tale the cover bills as "Fires of Rebirth… Fires of Death!