Ghostly Tales #74

Charlton's long-running anthology Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House delivers a wonderfully creepy 1969 cover by Jim Aparo, showing a terrified woman in a green dress trapped on an enormous spider's web while a human-faced black spider looms toward her — and a grinning, caped demon lurks at her back whispering, "Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly!… Hee, hee, hee!" The story featured inside, "The Surgeon Must Also Die," is brought to life by the creative team of writer Joe Gill and artist Bill Fraccio, with inking and lettering by Tony Tallarico. At twelve cents, this is a fine example of Charlton's gleefully macabre horror anthologies doing exactly what they did best.