Ghosts #74

DC's long-running anthology of eerie "true tales" reaches issue #74 with a cover by Luis Dominguez that practically leaps off the page: two thieves clutch a glowing gem in a torch-lit underground chamber while a snarling supernatural specter lunges toward them, and a towering, green idol goddess looms ominously in the background. The speech bubble boasts that "the idol's eye is ours," but that hovering apparition suggests the price of greed may be steep indeed. Three stories are promised inside — "The Gem That Haunted the World," "I, the Executioner," and "The Specter Waited 13 Years" — making this a fine sampler of the weird and supernatural DC was delivering to readers in 1979.