Man-Thing #13

Man-Thing clashes with a swashbuckling, red-coated Captain Fate alongside the hull of a tall ship in this striking January 1975 cover penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Klaus Janson — the cover text promising the muck-encrusted creature will be "hacked to pieces." Titled "Death in the Land of the Damned," this issue of Marvel's most startling swamp creature series pits the shambling Man-Thing against a pirate adversary who looks every bit as menacing as the monster he threatens. Steve Gerber scripts the interior with art from John Buscema and Tom Sutton, making this a genuinely compelling chapter in one of Marvel's most imaginatively offbeat titles of the Bronze Age.