Ghostly Tales #126

Charlton's Ghostly Tales #126 brings the horror anthology series' October 1977 lineup with a cover by Enrique Nieto that commands immediate attention — a massively built, masked figure hoists a green-clad victim overhead with unsettling ease, radiating raw menace against a blazing orange background. The towering brute's spiked bracers and purple cape mark him as something more than human, making the helpless figure he holds aloft feel genuinely imperiled. Inside, Nicola Cuti's story "The Torturer," illustrated by F. Nieto, promises the kind of dark, atmospheric thrills that made Charlton's horror line a standout of the era.