Haunted #6

Charlton's Haunted #6 (1972) promises eerie thrills with its featured story "A Real Gone Guy," and Steve Ditko's cover delivers an immediate jolt of dread — a wide-eyed, green-tinged man recoils in horror as a spectral, glowing head rises from an open chest overflowing with what appears to be money. The lurid green palette and swirling ghostly smoke give the scene a wonderfully unsettling atmosphere that Ditko handles with his signature flair for the uncanny. At just 20 cents, this Charlton horror anthology was offering readers a genuinely creepy package, with interior work by the prolific Joe Gill and artist Demetrio Sánchez Gómez rounding out the chills.