Strange Suspense Stories #68

Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #68 serves up a genuinely unsettling December 1963 treat with its lead story, "The Disenchanter." Dick Giordano's cover draws you right in: a turbaned mystic peers intently into a glowing crystal ball while a ghostly woman's face materializes in smoky wisps above him, and a wide-eyed, bow-tied skeptic looks on in visible disbelief — the cover copy even names the players as Dr. Hobart Griel and the mysterious Chasimir Dhui. Writer Joe Gill and artist Bill Molno deliver the interior tale, promising exactly the kind of occult tension and eerie atmosphere that made Charlton's anthology titles such a reliable source of thrills in the early sixties.