Ghostly Tales #75

Charlton's long-running horror anthology returns with issue #75, and Jim Aparo's cover sets a wonderfully unsettling tone — a horned, purple-caped demon looms large to the left while a terrified man in a brown suit struggles to resist what appears to be a ghostly presence merging with or tearing free from his body. The cover copy teases a story of dual occupancy with the blunt warning "No Other Man!" and the demon's taunting aside makes clear that whatever supernatural bargain is at play, someone is getting the raw end of it. With Joe Gill writing and Sanho Kim handling art, inking, and lettering on the interior tale "Phantom Patrol," this 1969 issue delivers the kind of eerie, efficient horror storytelling that made Charlton's ghost titles a reliable twelve-cent thrill.