Ghosts #9

DC's Ghosts #9 (November 1972) delivers exactly what its bold challenge promises — "True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural!" — with a Nick Cardy cover that sets an eerie nautical mood: a skeletal figure in a captain's uniform looms at a ship's wheel, its bony frame dripping with seawater, while two terrified men recoil in the doorway behind it, one clutching a lantern against the moonlit night. Three stories are teased along the bottom — "Curse of the Phantom Prophet," "Ghost That Never Was," and "Spectral Shepherd of Dartmoor" — promising a full anthology of supernatural dread. Now appearing monthly at just 20 cents, this issue is a fine snapshot of DC's early-'70s horror anthology era at its atmospheric best.