Man-Thing #5

Cover artist Bob Wiacek delivers a genuinely unsettling swamp scene: the massive, muck-encrusted Man-Thing looms in the foreground, its glowing eye fixed on a terrified young woman in a yellow top who recoils from its outstretched claws, while a determined man hurls a flaming spear at the creature from the background. The tagline "Whatever Knows Fear Burns at the Touch of the Man-Thing" sets the mood perfectly for Chris Claremont's story "Who Knows Fear," brought to life inside by artist Don Perlin and inker Wiacek. This 1980 Marvel issue is a solid showcase of the era's horror-comics atmosphere — moody, visceral, and hard to put down.