Ghost Stories #12

Dell's Ghost Stories #12 from December 1965 promises eerie thrills with Frank Springer's striking cover depicting a massive, shrouded skeletal figure looming over a tropical landscape where a giant scorpion, silhouetted against a sickly yellow moon, threatens a group of spear-carrying figures below. Springer's linework gives the scene a genuinely unsettling atmosphere — the towering specter of death presiding over chaos feels like something pulled straight from a nightmare. With the featured tale "Journey's End" and the cover's own boast of "strange stories that tremble the imagination," this issue captures mid-60s Dell horror anthology comics at their atmospheric best.