Ghostly Tales #106

Charlton's Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House #106 delivers a cover that earns its "All New" banner: Tom Sutton's artwork presents a massive, skull-faced tentacled creature rising from dark waters, its writhing arms spreading across the entire scene while a lone figure in a small motorboat faces the beast head-on beneath a pale full moon. The sheer scale of the monster against that tiny, vulnerable human makes this August 1973 cover genuinely unsettling in the best way. Inside, Joe Gill and Pat Boyette — handling writing, art, and lettering himself — bring you "The Moon Beast," promising the kind of eerie, atmospheric horror that made Charlton's mystery titles a reliable thrill.