The Phantom Stranger #9

The Phantom Stranger looms as a shadowy silhouette in the background of this striking 1970 DC cover by Neal Adams, while a full-grown man is pinned to the floor by an oversized spear — its tip impossibly close to a tiny, doll-sized figure nearby — as a flaming torch tumbles through the air above. The unsettling scale play and eerie spotlight give the scene a genuinely surreal, supernatural tension that perfectly suits a title built on mystery and the unexplained. With interior art by Bill Ely and the provocative story title "Obeah Man!" promising something rooted in dark ritual, this issue delivers exactly the kind of atmospheric unease that made The Phantom Stranger such a compelling corner of DC's early 1970s line.