Vampirella #72

Warren Magazine's September 1978 entry in the long-running Vampirella series delivers one of the most viscerally striking covers in the run — painted by Enrich Torres, it depicts a massive, horned behemoth looming over a helpless Vampirella, its dripping fangs agape as it clutches her aloft with monstrous claws. The cover copy promises that "fangs flashing, claws slashing, it's Pantha to the rescue" when Vampi is kidnapped by this crazed creature in the lead story "The Beauty and the Behemoth," written by Bill DuBay. Torres's moody, painterly rendering makes the monster feel genuinely overwhelming in scale, and the tension between Vampirella's vulnerability and the lurking promise of Pantha's intervention gives this issue a real sense of dramatic stakes.