Mortimer Tishin

Mortimer Tishin is a horror-host character from Charlton's Bronze Age anthology titles, serving as a macabre guide through tales of the supernatural in Beyond the Grave and related horror comics.

Few characters capture the eerie charm of Charlton's Bronze Age horror output quite like Mortimer Tishin, who first shambled into readers' imaginations in Beyond the Grave #1 in 1975, courtesy of the wonderfully macabre creative pairing of Nick Cuti and Santho Kim. A fixture of Charlton's shivery anthology circuit — haunting the pages of Beyond the Grave, Ghostly Tales, and Scary Tales through the early 1980s — Mortimer is very much a creature of that wonderfully disreputable era when horror comics thrived on the newsstands. Modest in total appearances but rich in atmosphere, he's a rewarding discovery for collectors drawn to the offbeat, underdog corner of Bronze Age horror.