Monsters Unleashed #11

Among Marvel's mid-1970s horror magazines, Monsters Unleashed #11 delivers a genuinely unsettling cover where a lone figure clutches a glowing crucifix aloft in a graveyard, desperately pushing back against a grotesque, decomposing corpse rising from the earth — a scene teasing the issue's featured story, "An Angel Felled." The cover art, penciled and inked by Frank Brunner with pencils by Dick Giordano, crackles with atmospheric dread, the swirling supernatural energy around the cross contrasting sharply with the decaying monstrosity lunging forward. Inside, writer Doug Moench and artist Sonny Trinidad bring Gabriel into the cold darkness of the grave for what the cover boldly bills as "The Ultimate Exorcism.