Strange Tales #171

Strange Tales #171 brings Brother Voodoo to the forefront of Marvel's supernatural corner in this December 1973 issue, with a cover by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia that drops him into a graveyard overrun with rotting, grasping zombies. He's outnumbered and fighting furiously — fists flying, feet launching kicks — while a skull-faced, elaborately costumed Baron Samedi looms at the right, taunting him with the promise that he'll "join them in death forever." It's a wonderfully atmospheric horror-action image that makes "March of the Dead" feel like exactly the kind of eerie, pulse-quickening story Marvel's Strange Tales was made for.