Ghostly Tales #72

Charlton's Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House #72 (1969) serves up a deliciously unsettling collage cover by Jim Aparo, featuring a grinning, sharp-featured supernatural host presiding over a scene of domestic fury — a white-haired man labeled "Uncle Henry" lunges menacingly at a card table while onlookers recoil in alarm. Story titles teased on the cover include "The House of No Return" and the provocatively titled "Killing Ones Best Friend Makes One a Bad Man… Or Does It?", promising the kind of morally tangled horror vignettes Charlton did so well. With interior work from Joe Gill, Steve Ditko, Jim Aparo, and Pat Boyette, this 12-cent package delivers a genuine murderers' row of 1969 comics talent.