This is in the spirit of
Kindertrauma's NAME THAT TRAUMA series, since it's an image from my childhood that has really stuck with me and haunts my psyche to this day. I remember seeing in a grocery store checkout line a comic book cover that featured the Human Torch (I'm pretty sure) getting skewered by a pitchfork, or maybe a trident? The time period had to have been between 1973 at the very earliest (I would have been three years old--can't imagine recalling an image like that from a younger age) and 1978 at the latest. As I recall (perhaps incorrectly), it was a fairly busy cover with a lot going on, but that horrific detail jumped out at me, because it showed the tines actually poking out through his back or something of the sort--the sense of impalement was very clear and vivid, however it was rendered. I'd be interested in looking at any Bronze Age comics covers that depict someone getting stabbed through with a pitchfork or trident. Thanks!
Update--here's one possibility:

Any others?
5 comments:
Good to meet again - and to see lovely creepy pictures and stories.
Horror is still my love.
Cheers,
Mina Jade
It's not this issue of Marvel Team up featuring Son of Satan, is it? http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/marvel-team-up#i32
I just visited your two websites, Mina, and found some interesting photographs. Have you anything to say for yourself, little missy?
having grown up during these same years & the FF with the torch in particular being my fav superheros, I seem to remember a lot of conflicts with Namor, the Submariner, with the FF, perhaps one of those covers (I don't have any to share, just this insight), being ruler of his underwater kingdom usually meant carrying a trident a la King Neptune
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I love the cover that was suggested there. I have a run of the Spotlights with SoS, and his own title, but I did not know that issue existed. Thanks!
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