Fear (1970 Marvel) 14

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Cover art by Alan Weiss. "The Demon Plague," script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Chic Stone; Across the country, people begin committing wanton acts of violence; Children begin trying to kill one another; An underpaid secretary karate kicks her employer. A traveling salesman tries to run down an innocent couple; In the Florida Everglades, Joshua Kale and his children Jennifer and Andy watch news reports detailing the strange outbreaks of violence; Kale realizes that these seemingly unrelated incidents are in connection with the takeover of human minds and souls by demons of the underworld; He decides to assemble his cult; The cult meets in the swamp and Kale prepares a ritual that he hopes will block the demons' entry to the Earth realm. Jennifer and Andy sit nearby and watch the spectacle; The Man-Thing is likewise nearby and shambles close to them. "Listen, You Fool," art by Paul Reinman; Albert Rudley suspects that his wife Rita has been trying to murder him; Though he suffers from poor hearing, his hearing aid enables him to overhear his wife conspiring with their chauffeur Vincent; Albert learns that the recent string of "near accidents" that he has suffered were actually plots to end his life; Later, Rita asks her husband to go on a boating trip to Canada. Albert knows that she intends on capsizing the boat in the hopes that he will drown, so he takes measures to prevent this. He poisons her drink with a drug that will cause paralysis once she enters the water. Letter from comics writer Roger Slifer. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.