Ghostly Tales #100

Charlton's Ghostly Tales hits its 100th issue with a genuinely unsettling cover by Tom Sutton — a turbaned mystic named Shamid Bey looms large, his face twisted in horror as a struggling man is pulled toward him, a glowing crystal ball at the center of it all, while a sinister vampiric face lurks in the corner. The cover copy promises a tale of body-theft and occult trickery with the breathless declaration "He's Stealing My Body!" and the story title "Crystal Clear," making this December 1972 milestone one of Charlton's more memorably creepy horror packages. With interior work from writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko, this centennial issue delivers the eerie, offbeat storytelling that made Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House a fixture of early-70s horror comics.