Strange Tales #172

Brother Voodoo stands defiant at the center of this February 1974 Marvel cover, surrounded by robed cult members brandishing flaming torches while a grotesque, fanged Dark Lord looms large in the background, snarling the threat "Tonight — you die!" Gil Kane's pencils and Frank Giacoia's inks give the confrontation a raw, urgent energy, with the ghostly visage of Brother Voodoo's spirit companion hovering in the upper corner. "The Death-Cult of the Dark Lord!" promises exactly the kind of supernatural stakes that made Strange Tales such a distinctive corner of the Marvel universe in 1974.