The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #17

From Gold Key's supernatural adventure series, this 1975 issue plunges Dr. Spektor into a harrowing collision of horrors — the cover by Jesse Santos delivers a visceral tableau of the dark-suited Spektor wielding a shovel against encroaching zombies, a menaced woman caught in the chaos, and a coiling serpentine creature looming in the upper corner. Santos's painted cover style gives the whole scene a genuinely unsettling atmosphere that suits the story's promise of zombies, voodoo, and a snake god. Don Glut's "Bride of the Walking Dead" sounds like exactly the kind of macabre, pulpy fun that made this Gold Key series a treat for fans of classic supernatural comics.