Fear #16

Deep in the Everglades, the muck-encrusted Man-Thing looms over two workers — one leaping from a bulldozer in panic, another watching in alarm — while a construction sign for a new parking lot hints at the land-development conflict at the heart of "Cry of the Native!" Frank Brunner's cover art renders Marvel's swamp creature with genuinely unsettling menace, those glowing red eyes emerging from the murk with quiet, horrible patience. Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik bring their talents to this September 1973 issue, making it a fine entry in one of Marvel's more thoughtfully eerie series of the era.