Ghostly Tales #124

Charlton's Ghostly Tales #124 delivers a genuinely unsettling cover by Mike Zeck, depicting a massive horned demon materializing in billowing pink smoke above a candle-lit pentagram, its fanged maw wide open and clawed hands reaching outward while a terrified figure recoils in the lower left. The combination of occult ritual imagery and that looming, grotesque creature makes for a striking December 1976 package that signals serious horror intent. Joe Gill's "Blaque and Wight" promises the kind of eerie storytelling that made Charlton's anthology titles a reliable destination for fans of the macabre.