House of Mystery #250

A grizzled sea captain grips the ship's wheel and delivers a chilling declaration — "I've lived all my life on the sea, lad, and so help me — I'll die here as well!" — while a ghostly, skull-faced specter clutching a blazing blade emerges from swirling smoke above the mast, and a terrified young sailor cowers at the captain's side. Ernie Chan and Vince Colletta bring a wonderfully eerie tension to this February 1977 DC anthology, with that fiery orange sky setting a perfectly ominous tone for the issue's lead feature, "Voyage to Hell." If you've ever wondered what damnation at sea looks like, this is a fine place to start.