Man-Thing #3

Marvel's muck-encrusted misfit looms large in this March 1974 issue, with John Romita's cover painting a genuinely unsettling scene: the Man-Thing surges through churning swamp water alongside a massive alligator, while terrified civilians scramble in panic aboard what appears to be a burning airboat. The tagline "Death-Winds Across the Everglades!" sets the mood perfectly for a creature-feature rooted in the murky Florida wetlands, with Steve Gerber writing and Val Mayerik on interior art. If you've got a taste for horror-tinged Marvel storytelling from the early Bronze Age, this one delivers the atmosphere in spades.