Scary Tales #46

Charlton's Scary Tales #46 (1984) delivers a genuinely unsettling cover by Tom Sutton, depicting a massive, tentacled sea creature rising from murky waters — its dripping, barnacled bulk dwarfing a tiny figure in a small boat below, with mossy ruins clinging to the rocks beside it. The sheer scale of the beast against that helpless human makes for a wonderfully creepy image that captures the anthology's taste for primal, monster-driven dread. Inside, writer Joe Gill and Steve Ditko (handling both pencils and inks) bring their considerable talents to the story "The Green Peace," with colors by Wendy Fiore and lettering by Jon D'Agostino rounding out the creative team.