Tomb of Dracula #49

Few comics from 1976 could boast a cover this deliriously ambitious: Dracula himself is seized in the iron grip of Frankenstein's Monster at center stage, while Robin Hood stands arrow-ready to the left, a mustachioed figure in a plumed hat lurks at lower right, and a wide-eyed boy and weathered older man look on in stunned disbelief — all set against what the cover boldly calls "the most bizarre vampire thriller ever!" Gene Colan's pencils and Tom Palmer's inks give every figure a wonderfully cinematic weight, pulling together this improbable rogues' gallery with genuine tension. The cover's own warning — "Do NOT reveal the surprise ending" — makes issue #49 hard to set back on the shelf.