Ghostly Haunts #44

Charlton's Ghostly Haunts was reliably delivering chills in 1975, and issue #44 keeps that streak alive with a cover by Sanho Kim that sets an immediately unsettling mood. A menacing, clawing figure looms from the murky background while a man crouches over a fallen woman in the foreground, bats wheeling through the stormy sky above — it's the kind of atmospheric dread that pulls you right in. Inside, Steve Ditko handles both pencils and inks on "Trophy Room," written by Gary Petras with lettering by Ray Burzon, making this a well-crafted entry in Charlton's horror anthology tradition.