Cover: Jim Aparo

Adventure Comics #438

Mar 1975 · DC · 0.25 USD

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“The Spectre Haunts the Museum of Fear”

In "The Spectre Haunts the Museum of Fear," the Ghostly Guardian confronts a deranged curator whose obsession with macabre displays leads him to abduct people and transform their bodies into unsettling exhibits beneath the Museum of Natural History. Written by Michael Fleisher and brought to life with haunting detail by Ernie Chua and Jim Aparo, this 1975 DC classic blends psychological dread with supernatural justice. The cover, a chilling collaboration by Jim Aparo, captures the story’s eerie tone in full.

writer Michael Fleisher · artist Ernie Chua · inker Jim Aparo · cover Jim Aparo

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writer Michael Fleisher

artist Ernie Chua

inker Jim Aparo

cover pencils, inks Jim Aparo

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The Ghostly Guardian must halt the insane activities of the curator of the Museum of Natural History, who, in his spare time, has specific occupational people kidnapped and brought to the museum, where he treats the bodies for "special exhibits" he has constructed in the basement of the facility.

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