Strange Suspense Stories #34

Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #34 packs three tales of dread into one unsettling 1957 package, and the Steve Ditko cover makes the promise plain: a man recoils in horror as a grotesque, disembodied face looms above him beneath the tag line "The Man Who Lost His Face!" Two inset panels tease additional stories — "The Scar!" showing terrified onlookers reacting to a faceless figure, and "The Escape!" depicting a tumbling silhouette caught in a burst of light. Ditko's precise linework and moody color contrasts give the whole cover a quietly eerie charge that's hard to put down.