The Demon #6

Bolt your windows… lock your doors!" — the cover's urgent tagline sets the tone perfectly for this February 1973 installment of Jack Kirby and Mike Royer's supernatural series. Etrigan the Demon, red-suited and caped astride a dark steed, faces down an enormous shaggy beast — the Howler — whose massive clawed arms dwarf the hero against a stark blue sky. It's exactly the kind of raw, kinetic menace Kirby conjured so effortlessly, and this cover makes a compelling case for why The Demon remains one of his most imaginative 1970s creations.