Ghosts #82

DC's long-running anthology of weird and supernatural tales reaches issue #82 with a genuinely unsettling big-top scenario: a leering skeleton, striped like a performer, lunges through the air of a circus tent toward a horrified acrobat in freefall, while a trapeze artist clings to her swing high above, frozen in terror. Luis Dominguez's cover work frames the chaos beautifully against dramatic spotlight beams, with a crowd of tiny onlookers far below oblivious to the supernatural horror unfolding overhead. With the cover's own promise — "Ladies and Gentlemen… high above the center ring — The Ghost Who Wouldn't Die!" — this 1979 issue makes a compelling case that the supernatural and the spectacle of the circus are a perfectly chilling match.