Ghosts #69

DC's long-running anthology of "True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural" delivers 25 all-new pages of eerie encounters in this October 1978 issue, with a cover by Luis Dominguez that sets an immediately unsettling tone. Two skeletal Death figures — one wielding a scythe and draped in a skull-adorned blue cloak, the other lurking at the left — loom over a man and a terrified woman against a blood-red sunset above a gondola-lined waterway, while a caption reads "Relax, honey! Nothing will happen to me for photographing The Gondola of Death!" That breezy dismissal against such a chilling backdrop makes this one hard to put back on the shelf.