Dr. M. T. Graves

Few characters nail a good macabre joke quite like Dr. M. T. Graves, the eerily named host who materialized in Charlton's Ghostly Tales #55 in 1966 — a Silver Age debut brought to life by the legendary team of Joe Gill and Steve Ditko. Keeping suitably spectral company alongside the likes of Mr. L. Dedd, Graves haunted the pages of Charlton's horror anthology line during that brief but atmospheric late-'60s window when Ditko's unmistakable linework gave even the cheapest newsstand chiller a genuinely unsettling edge. With four catalog appearances including one collector-recognized key issue, Graves is a compact but choice find — the kind of delightfully ghoulish corner of Silver Age horror that reminds you just how much personality Charlton could pack into a name alone.