Vampirella #20

Warren Publishing's Vampirella #20 (October 1972) arrives with a darkly atmospheric cover painted by Luis Dominguez that pulls you straight into a scene of dread and captivity — a chained figure lies prostrate on stone steps before an enthroned woman wearing a horned headdress, while a snarling black beast crouches nearby and a shadowy, robed figure looms ominously from the darkness behind her. The tableau radiates the kind of sinister ceremonial menace that made Warren's horror magazines essential reading in 1972. Inside, Doug Moench and Rafael Auraleón deliver "The Matrimonial Murderer," promising the sharp, macabre storytelling that kept Vampirella at the forefront of the era's horror anthology scene.