Ghostly Tales #127

Charlton's long-running horror anthology delivers another unsettling entry with Ghostly Tales #127, January 1978. Tom Sutton's cover is a wild, squirming spectacle — a tangled, wire-like creature with wide, terrified eyes crouches amid bursts of electrical sparks, its body a writhing mass of colorful cables and tendrils that practically leap off the page. With Nicola Cuti writing and Sutton handling both pencils and inks on the interior as well, "The Wire Man" promises exactly the kind of imaginative, creepy storytelling that made Charlton's horror line a genuine treat in 1978.