Ghostly Tales #125

Charlton's Ghostly Tales #125 brings the chill of September 1977 with a Steve Ditko cover that sets an unsettling scene: a kneeling figure in a hooded brown coat raises a flaming torch toward a towering totem pole, while a wary man in a purple parka clutches a rifle nearby, all wreathed in eerie green supernatural smoke drifting against a pale moonlit sky. Inside, writer Nicola Cuti and artist Salvador Martínez deliver "Dead and Gone," promising the kind of spine-tingling short fiction Charlton horror anthologies did so well. For fans of late-'70s horror comics, this one has atmosphere to spare.