Mr. L. Dedd

Mr. L. Dedd is Charlton Comics' resident horror host — a ghoulish master of ceremonies who presides over macabre anthology tales, introducing eerie stories and guiding readers through supernatural terrors across titles including Ghostly Tales, Ghost Manor, and Scary Tales.

Few names in comics announce their owner's purpose quite so gleefully as Mr. L. Dedd — the macabre host who has been welcoming readers into Charlton's house of horrors since his Silver Age debut in Ghostly Tales #55 in 1966, conjured by the legendary pairing of writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko. Over a remarkable span stretching nearly six decades, this ghoulish master of ceremonies haunted the pages of Ghost Manor and Scary Tales as well, racking up 129 catalog appearances and earning two collector-significant key issues along the way. He keeps wonderfully eerie company — sharing pages with the likes of Dr. Graves, Baron Weirwulf, Countess Von Bludd, and fellow spook-show fixture Mr. Bones — placing him squarely at the beating black heart of Charlton's beloved horror line. If you have a soft spot for the wonderfully lurid, low-budget charm of Silver Age anthology horror, Mr. L. Dedd is exactly the kind of enduring, pun-named ghoul your collection has been waiting to meet.