Vampirella #26

Vampirella #26 arrives in August 1973 with a bold declaration right on the cover: Warren's magazine has gone full color, and the results are vivid proof of that promise. The cover is a striking collage of four framed story previews — a winged demon looming over entwined figures in "The Demon Child," an intimate moonlit encounter in "Moonspawn," a tense knife-wielding confrontation, and Vampirella herself in her signature costume alongside a caped figure in "Demons in the Fog" — all rendered with the lush, painterly linework of cover artists Esteban Maroto, José Beá, Ramón Torrents, and José González. Inside, George Henderson's script for "Death and Doctor Morbidus" comes to life through Rafael Auraleón's artwork, making this a fine showcase of the remarkable European talent Warren was bringing to American readers in 1973.