This Magazine is Haunted #12 can be read at this link. This is reboot of the series and features the new host Dr. Haunt, one of Ditko's finest, though he didn't draw the character first. Ditko and Joe Gill (most likely) produce five stories in this one -- "The Faceless Ones", "The Message", "The Thing on the Beach", "His Fate", and "The Last One".
This cover was reused for the twenty-fifth issue of Scary Tales. It's brighter but less atmospheric.
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Excellent all Ditko issue, you can certainly see his style has almost developed into pure Ditko here . I wonder how many times some of these covers have been reused I have 2 ( possibly 3 , my memory's foggy) separate Charlton comics that have used a previous Joe Staton cover
ReplyDeleteThe 70's was a time when a great deal of art was re--purposed and reprinted. So much of what I saw on the stands was from earlier eras. It seemed normal.
DeleteQuite a difference between the two, and I prefer the first one. Very atmospheric. I wonder if it helped sell more issues.
ReplyDeleteI concur, the first one is much more effective. The second lacks the atmosphere for sure.
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