Man-Thing #2

Marvel's muck-encrusted swamp creature looms menacingly over a terrified young woman on this gripping 1974 cover, while a shirtless man squares up nearby and a downed figure lies helpless in the foreground — all framed by snapping chains and splintered wood that sell the raw, unstoppable power of the Man-Thing. The tagline "Hell Hath No Fury…!" perfectly captures the desperate, horror-tinged atmosphere that Steve Gerber's writing and Val Mayerik's interior art bring to "Nowhere to Go but Down!" Cover art by Jim Starlin, Marie Severin, and Frank Giacoia makes this early issue a striking showcase for one of Marvel's most genuinely unsettling corners of the early '70s.