Scary Tales #7

Charlton's Scary Tales #7 (1976) delivers exactly what the title promises, with cover artists Richard Larson and Tim Boxell staging a genuinely unsettling scene: a hulking, grey-skinned creature looming over a terrified young woman who has fallen among scattered belongings near a store's "SALE" sign. The monster's snarling face and outstretched claws give the image a real sense of menace, grounding the horror in an eerily mundane, everyday setting. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Enrique Nieto bring "A Matter of Life or Death" to life — a fine package of mid-seventies Charlton chills at a very reasonable 30 cents.