Ghostly Tales #88

Charlton's Ghostly Tales #88 delivers two distinct cover vignettes that set the mood perfectly: at top, a group of squabbling relatives crowds around what appears to be a tense family dispute, teeing up the featured story "The Changing of the Will," while below, a bearded man recoils in shock at a translucent, ghostly figure materializing beside him — with a red-dressed woman and green-clad companion reacting with equal alarm. The cover, rendered by Pat Boyette and Steve Ditko, crackles with that particular Charlton brand of supernatural unease, and the interior art from Ditko with lettering by Ray Burzon and writing by Joe Gill promises all-new stories that more than justify the 15-cent price of admission.