Scary Tales #24

Charlton's Scary Tales #24 (February 1981) delivers exactly what the title promises, with cover art by Mike Zeck depicting a desperate figure clinging to a wooden staff while a snarling green monster lunges from below — the snowy, churning backdrop making the peril feel genuinely vertiginous. Zeck's linework gives the creature a real sense of weight and menace, its clawed hands reaching upward in a way that's hard to shake. Inside, Paul Kupperberg's "Distress" promises the kind of tense, atmospheric horror storytelling that made Charlton's anthology titles a reliable thrill for genre fans in 1981.