Ghostly Tales #137

Charlton's Ghostly Tales #137 delivers a tense August 1979 cover by Jim Aparo, showing a frightened young woman and a wide-eyed man pressed together in the foreground while a cloaked, menacing figure points at them from the shadows and declares, "Your negligence is punishable by death!!" The shadowy specter and the raw terror on the two protagonists' faces make this a genuinely chilling piece of horror atmosphere. Inside, the eerie promise of "The Keeper of the Keys" awaits, with Joe Gill writing and Steve Ditko handling both art and inks alongside letterer Ray Burzon.