Scary Tales #18

Charlton's Scary Tales #18 (1979) delivers a wonderfully unsettling cover by Steve Ditko, showing a green-skinned creature in a tattered coat lurching forward while three terrified figures — a woman in red, a pale man in a white coat, and a goggled figure in brown — scramble in panic behind her. The woman's desperate plea, "K-Keep away from me! This…this isn't in the script!" hints at some gloriously chaotic scenario tied to the interior story "3-D Disaster Doom Death!" Charlton horror fans looking for that perfect blend of dread and pulpy fun will find this issue hard to put down.