The Witching Hour #39

DC's long-running horror anthology reaches issue #39 with a cover by Nick Cardy that stops you cold: a man clutches his eerily blank, featureless face in horror while a cackling witch looms behind him and a cloaked figure holding a lantern taunts from a doorway — "Here it is! I stole it forever!" It's a genuinely unsettling image that captures everything DC's mystery titles did so well in 1974. Inside, Carl Wessler's writing and Ernie Chan's art promise dark tales, including the ominously titled "The Phantom Pharaoh!