I don't have my copy in hand yet, but I'm eager to see the latest issue of Alter Ego with its features on some of the non-EC horror comics of the 50's. Among those comics are some from Atlas (soon to be Marvel) and one of the most durable impressions in those is Bill Everett's Zombie from Menace #5. That stolid figure serves as the cover for the issue.
The image is from the first page of the story. Here's a link for the whole story.
The Zombie was revived by Marvel in its monster heyday in the black and white magazine Tales of the Zombie ("Zombie" being a word that at the time still could not be used in color comics, Marvel substituting the word "zuvembie" in the Brother Voodoo stories).
As you can see one of the ads for that magazine makes use of Bill Everett's classic zombie pose (flipped), but I detect the hand of John Romita in the makeover of this figure to give him some happenin' 70's hair and mildly less passive expression.
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