Monsters Unleashed #7

Monsters Unleashed #7 (August 1974) puts the terror front and center with Richard Hescox's striking painted cover — a massive, horned bull-demon called Ch'manu looms out of a murky swamp, claws outstretched, as a terrified woman and a desperate man scramble to escape its reach. The cover promises a rich anthology of dread, teasing stories featuring the Frankenstein Monster and Werewolf by Night alongside the swamp-stalking menace of Ch'manu himself. Marvel's black-and-white horror magazine format was firing on all cylinders in 1974, and this issue looks like a genuinely satisfying evening of creature-feature chills.