The Phantom Stranger #12

Neal Adams conjures a genuinely unsettling bedroom scene for this 1971 DC issue: the Phantom Stranger, cape billowing and candelabra raised, stands before a glowing white female spirit rising eerily from a four-poster bed, while a terrified elderly figure recoils in horror against the headboard. The cover's cool green pallor and Gothic atmosphere feel perfectly matched to a story titled "Marry Me — Marry Death!" — promising the kind of supernatural dread that made this series a standout of early-'70s DC horror. With Robert Kanigher writing and Jim Aparo handling the interior art, issue #12 delivers the moody craftsmanship that fans of the Phantom Stranger have always treasured.