Monsters on the Prowl #21

Marvel's silver-age monster anthology delivers a genuinely unsettling cover for issue #21, with Gil Kane's pencils and Joe Sinnott's inks bringing to life a massive, green-skinned creature with glowing red eyes looming over a terrified man scrambling out of his armchair — the television in the foreground and the cover copy warning "All Citizens Are Advised to Stay in Their Homes Because… A Martian Stalks the City!!" setting an urgent, pulpy tone. The contrast between the ordinary domestic setting and the hulking extraterrestrial menace overhead makes for a wonderfully tense piece of 1973 Marvel horror comics craft. Inside, Carl Wessler and artist Harry Lazarus (inked by George Klein) deliver the tale promised on the cover: "The Martian Who Stole a City!