The Phantom Stranger #7

Neal Adams delivers a genuinely unsettling cover for this 1970 DC mystery title, depicting a terrified man in a business suit being seized by the writhing, glowing tendrils of a gnarled supernatural tree, a late-model car abandoned on the dark road behind him and the looming ghostly face of a sinister figure haunting the background. The Phantom Stranger himself watches from the upper corner — hat, cloak, and all — with the enigmatic tagline "Follow Me… For I Am…" leaving just enough unfinished to pull you straight inside. With Robert Kanigher writing and Jim Aparo handling the interior art in full, "The Curse!" promises the kind of eerie, atmospheric storytelling that made this series a standout of early-'70s DC supernatural comics.