Ghost Manor #49

Charlton's long-running horror anthology returns with issue #49, and Pat Boyette's cover sets a fittingly unsettling tone — a gaunt, green-skinned ghoul bursts through splintered wood while a young man, a dark-haired woman, and a pale female figure in white look on with dread, as an elderly man below warns readers not to read this issue after dark. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko bring their own eerie sensibilities to "The 3rd Player," a combination that horror fans of 1980 would have found hard to resist. If you like ghosts and creepy things, well — the cover already told you what to do.