Ghostly Tales #108

Charlton's Ghostly Tales #108 delivers the chill goods with a cover by Tom Sutton that makes an immediate impression: a massive, snarling demonic face — identified in the speech balloon as Lucifer himself — looms over a terrified blonde woman and a horrified man, while a spectral, withered hand erupts from the ground between them. The tagline "I foreclose the spell granting you eternal life and beauty… so say I, Lucifer!!" promises the kind of dark bargain storytelling that made Charlton's horror anthologies so compelling in 1973. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko bring their talents to bear on "Dearly Departed," making this a genuinely appealing package for fans of early-'70s horror comics.