Ghostly Tales #77

Charlton's Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House #77 (December 1969) packs its cover with eerie vignettes — a cloaked, sinister figure issuing dire warnings to a meddling woman, a ghostly apparition looming over a man dismissing it as "a bad dream," and a pale, wide-eyed supernatural presence menacing a prone figure as onlookers recoil in horror. The cover teases two stories, "The Copper Kettle" and a tale of a doctor making a house call three centuries before his own birth, promising the kind of gleefully macabre fun Charlton did so well in 1969. With cover art by Steve Ditko and José Luis García-López, this is a satisfying slice of late-'60s horror anthology comics.