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\nBy Leo Dorfman<\/strong>, Murray Boltinoff<\/strong>, John Broome<\/strong>, Jack Miller<\/strong>, Joe Samachson<\/strong>, George Kashdan<\/strong>, Bob Haney<\/strong>, Richard E. Hughes<\/strong>, Carl Wessler<\/strong>, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, Jim Aparo<\/strong>, Sam Glanzman<\/strong>, Carmine Infantino<\/strong>, Sy Barry<\/strong>, Frank Giacoia<\/strong>, John Calnan<\/strong>, Bob Brown<\/strong>, George Tuska<\/strong>, Wally Wood<\/strong>, Curt Swan<\/strong>, Ruben Moreira<\/strong>, Irwin Hasen<\/strong>, Leonard Starr<\/strong>, Jerry Grandenetti<\/strong>, Nick Cardy<\/strong>, Ramona Fradon<\/strong>, Art Saaf<\/strong>, Michael William Kaluta<\/strong>, Jack Sparling<\/strong>, Win Mortimer<\/strong>, Ernie Chan<\/strong>, Buddy Gernale<\/strong>, Nestor<\/strong>, Quico<\/strong> & Frank Redondo<\/strong>, Alfredo Alcala<\/strong>, Gerry Talaoc<\/strong>, Nestor Malgapo<\/strong>, E.R. Cruz<\/strong>, Rico Rival<\/strong>, Abe Ocampo<\/strong>, Ernesto Patricio<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-0-85768-836-1 (TPB)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Perfect Serving of Spectral Wonderment… 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Dia de los Muertos! Let\u2019s wind down our own Halloween celebrations and enjoy the more life-affirming Day of the Dead with a fabulously appropriate tome…<\/p>\n

DC Comics came relatively late to funnybooks\u2019 phantom-peril party, only bowing to the inevitable hunger for horror and mystery in the early 1950s. Comparatively straight-laced anthology The House of Mystery<\/strong> (cover-dated December 1951\/January 1952) started the ball rolling with a gradual pick up that stopped dead after a hysterical censorship scandal and governmental witch-hunt created a spectacular backlash. It resulted in the industry adopting a castrating straitjacket of self-regulatory rules. Horror titles produced under the aegis of the Comics Code Authority were sanitised, anodyne affairs in terms of Shock and Gore, even though the appetite for suspense was still high. Nevertheless, in 1956 National\/DC added sister title House of Secrets<\/strong> which specialised in taut human-interest tales in a fantasy milieu.<\/p>\n

Stories were dialled back into marvellously illustrated, rationalistic, fantasy-adventure vehicles which dominated the market until the 1960s when super-heroes finally overtook them. When that bout of cape-and-cowl craziness peaked and popped, sales began bottoming out for Costumed Dramas and comics faced another punishing sales downturn.<\/p>\n

Nothing combats censorship better than falling profits. As the end of the 1960s saw the superhero boom end with so many titles dead and some of the industry\u2019s most prestigious series circling the drain too, the publishers took drastic action. This real-world Crisis led to the surviving players in the field agreeing to loosen their self-imposed restraints against crime and horror comics. Nobody much cared about gangster titles but as liberalisation coincided with another bump in public interest in all aspects of the Worlds Beyond, a resurrection of spooky comics was a foregone conclusion…<\/p>\n

The chilling comeback resumed with The House of Mystery <\/strong>in 1968, and soon supernatural mystery titles dominated the marketplace, DC began a steady stream of launches along narrowly differing thematic lines. There was gothic horror romance title Sinister House of Secret Love<\/strong>, combat iteration Weird War Tales<\/strong> and, from late summer 1970, a bold new book which proudly boasted \u201cTrue Tales of the Weird and Supernatural!\u201d and challenged readers to read on… if they dared…<\/p>\n

Originally released on St Valentine\u2019s Day 2012, this sadly sole and singular monochrome encyclopaedia of the uncanny collects the first 18 issues of Ghosts<\/strong>, covering like a shroud September\/October 1970 to September 1973. Lead scripter and supernatural enthusiast Leo Dorfman produced most of the original material for a title he is generally credited with creating. Dorfman was one of the most prolific scripters of the era (also working as David George and Geoff Brown) and a major scripter of horror stories for DC and Gold Key titles.<\/p>\n

The thrills and chills begin with a graphic \u2018Introduction\u2019<\/em> from Tony DeZu\u00f1iga – probably scripted by editor Murray Boltinoff – prior to \u2018Death\u2019s Bridegroom\u2019 <\/em>(Dorfman & Jim Aparo) exposing a conniving bluebeard conman who finally picked the wrong girl to bilk and jilt. Sam Glanzman illustrated a fearsome tale of a shipbuilder slain while sabotaging a Nazi U-Boat before returning as a vengeful \u2018Ghost in the Iron Coffin\u2019<\/em>, after which John Broome, Carmine Infantino & Sy Barry\u2019s \u2018The Tattooed Terror\u2019<\/em> offers a slice of Golden Age anxiety (from Sensation Mystery <\/strong>#112, November 1952) with a career criminal seemingly haunted by his betrayed partner. Broome, Infantino & Frank Giacoia then relived \u2018The Last Dream\u2019 <\/em>(Sensation Comics<\/strong> #107, December 1951-January 1952) as a 400-year old rivalry results in death for a 20th<\/sup> century sceptic, and this initial issue ends with a Western mystery in \u2018The Spectral Coachman\u2019 <\/em>by Dorfman & DeZu\u00f1iga.<\/p>\n

The second issue opens with a predatory ghost-witch persecuting a Carpathian village in Dorfman, John Calnan & George Tuska\u2019s \u2018No Grave can Hold Me\u2019<\/em>, whilst \u2018Mission Supernatural\u2019<\/em> (limned by Bob Brown & Wally Wood) reveals a WWII secret perpetually plaguing a modern English airport. A brace of revered reprints begin with light-hearted romp \u2018The Sorrow of the Spirits\u2019<\/em> from HoM<\/strong> #21 (December 1953, Jack Miller, Curt Swan & Ray Burnley) wherein a plague of famous phantoms attempt to possess their descendants\u2019 bodies and \u2018Enter the Ghost\u2019<\/em> (Joe Samachson & Ruben Moreira, HoM<\/strong> #29, August 1954) finds an actor endangered by a dead thespian jealous of anyone recreating his greatest role…<\/p>\n

With Dorfman still writing the lion\u2019s share of new material, DeZu\u00f1iga renders the sorry fate of an unscrupulous diver seduced by discovery of a \u2018Galleon of Death\u2019<\/em>, as Miller & Irwin Hasen\u2019s \u2018Lantern in the Rain\u2019 <\/em>(Sensation Mystery<\/strong> #113, January\/February 1953) recounts an eerie railroad episode. Dorfman & Glanzman reunite to tell an original tale of \u2018The Ghost Battalions\u2019<\/em> who still haunt the world\u2019s battle sites from Gallipoli to Korea.<\/p>\n

Dorfman & DeZu\u00f1iga visited 17th<\/sup> century Scotland for #3\u2019s opening occult observation, wherein a sea-born princess demands her child back from a wicked Laird in \u2018Death is My Mother\u2019<\/em>, after which \u2018The Magician who Haunted Hollywood\u2019<\/em> (George Kashdan & Leonard Starr, HoM<\/strong> #10, January 1953) reveals how actor Dick Mayhew<\/em> may have been aided by a deceased escapologist when playing the starring role in the magician\u2019s biopic…<\/p>\n

Drawn by Calnan, \u2018The Dark Goddess of Doom\u2019<\/em> reveals how a statue of Kali deals with the ruthless collector who stole her, after which anonymously authored \u2018Station G.H.O.S.T.\u2019<\/em> (limned by Moreira for HoM<\/strong> #17, August 1953) discloses how a man\u2019s scheme to corruptly purchase a house haunted by his ancestor goes weirdly awry, before Tuska draws the saga of a WWII pilot who crashes into a desert nightmare and fatefully meets a \u2018Legion of the Dead\u2019<\/em>. Following a reprinted fact-file on \u2018Ghostly Miners\u2019<\/em>, Jerry Grandenetti depicts how a French landowner who unwisely disturbs a burial ground meets \u2018The Screaming Skulls\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Ghosts<\/strong> #4 starts with a secret history of one of America\u2019s most infamous killers in \u2018The Crimson Claw\u2019<\/em> (Tuska & cover artist Nick Cardy) before \u2018<\/em>The Ghostly Cities of Gold\u2019<\/em> (Grandenetti) reveals some truth about fabled, haunted Cibola<\/em> as the first reprint reveals \u2018<\/em>The Man Who Killed his Shadow!\u2019<\/em> Crafted by Miller, Swan & Burnley for HoM<\/strong> #16 (July 1953) it tells how a murdered photographer reaches from beyond the grave for justice. Thereafter, Ernie Chan limns \u2018The Fanged Spectres of Kinshoro\u2019<\/em>, with a Big Game hunter pitting 20th<\/sup> century rationality against an ancient Ju-Ju threat, whilst the superb team of Bob Haney, Ramona Fradon & Charles Paris shine again with \u2018The Legend of the Black Swan\u2019 <\/em>(HoM<\/strong> #48, March 1956) wherein three sceptical US students in Spain have an eerie encounter with doomed 17th<\/sup> century sailors before concluding on \u2018The Threshold of Nightmare House\u2019<\/em> with Calnan & Grandenetti illustrating inevitable doom for a woman haunted by her own ghost…<\/p>\n

During the invasion of China in 1939, a greedy Japanese warlord meets his fate – and the spirits of the Mongol warriors whose tomb he robbed. Issue #5\u2019s lead tale \u2018Death, the Pale Horseman\u2019<\/em> (Dorfman & Art Saaf) is followed by \u2018The Hands from the Grave\u2019<\/em> (Calnan) which somehow saves a young tourist from early death, after which reprint \u2018The Telltale Mirror\u2019<\/em> (by an unknown author & Grandenetti from HoM<\/strong> #13, April 1953) shows the dread downside of owning a looking glass that reflects the future…<\/p>\n

Original yarn \u2018Caravan of Doom\u2019<\/em> (Jack Sparling) tells of an uncanny African warrior aiding enslaved Tommies in WWI Tanganyika, balanced by uncredited reprint \u2018The Phantom of the Fog\u2019 <\/em>(Moreira art from HoM<\/strong> #123, June 1962), wherein valiant rebels overthrow a petty dictator with the apparent aid of an oceanic apparition, before Grandinetti\u2019s \u2018The Hearse Came at Midnight\u2019<\/em> ends the issue with spoiled college frat boys learning an horrific lesson about hazing and initiation rites…<\/p>\n

With Ghosts<\/strong> #6, page counts dropped from 52 to 32 pages and reprints were curtailed in favour of new material. Proceedings begin with Dorfman & Saaf\u2019s cautionary tale of an avaricious arcane apothecary when \u2018A Specter Poured the Potion\u2019, <\/em>before \u2018Ride with the Devil\u2019<\/em> (Calnan) tells of a most unexpected lift for an unwary hitchhiker whilst \u2018Death Awaits Me\u2019<\/em> (Grandenetti) exposes an eerie premonition marking the bizarre death of dancer Isadora Duncan<\/em>. A rare DC outing for mercurial comics genius Richard E. Hughes illustrated by Sparling closes this slimline edition with \u2018Ghost Cargo from the Sky\u2019<\/em>, exposing the incredible power of wishing to Pacific Islanders in the aftermath of WWII.<\/p>\n

Michael William Kaluta stood in for Cardy as cover artist for #7 but Dorfman remained as writer, beginning with \u2018Death\u2019s Finger Points\u2019<\/em> (Sparling) as a bullying Australian sheep farmer falls foul of aborigines he\u2019d abused, whilst President in waiting Lyndon B. Johnson <\/em>becomes the latest VIP to learn the cost of ignoring a Fakir\u2019s warning in the Saaf-illustrated \u2018Touch not my Tomb\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Calnan closed things out with \u2018The Sweet Smile of Death\u2019<\/em> in a doomed romance between a 20th<\/sup> century photographer and a flighty Regency phantom who refused to let this last admirer go. \u2018The Cadaver in the Clock\u2019<\/em> (art by Buddy Gernale) opened #8, as a succession of heirs learn the downside of an inheritance which perforce included a mummified corpse inside a grand chronometer, but Glanzman\u2019s \u2018The Guns of the Dead\u2019<\/em> shows a far more beneficial side to spectres as US marines are saved by their unstoppable – deceased – sergeant in 1944. Lovingly limned by the wonderful Nestor Redondo, \u2018Hotline to the Supernatural\u2019<\/em> recounts cases of supernatural premonition, whilst \u2018To Kill a Tyrant\u2019<\/em> (Quico Redondo) implausibly links the incredible last hours of Rasputin<\/em> to the so-necessary death of Stalin<\/em> decades later…<\/p>\n

Ghosts<\/strong> #9 begins with Calnan\u2019s \u2018The Curse of the Phantom Prophet\u2019<\/em> as an Indian holy man continues his war against the insolent British and rapacious white men long after his death by firing squad. \u2018<\/em>The Last Ride of Rosie the Wrecker\u2019<\/em> (gloriously illustrated by Alfredo Alcala) then details the indomitable determination of a crushed US tank that shouldn\u2019t have been able to move at all, and Grandenetti\u2019s \u2018The Spectral Shepherd of Dartmoor\u2019<\/em> shows how a long-dead repentant convict still aids the weak and imperilled in modern Britain. Events end on an eerie note as vacationers see horrific apparitions but discover \u2018The Phantom that Never Was\u2019<\/em> has created a real ghost out of a hoax disaster in a genuine chiller drawn by Bob Brown & Frank McLaughlin.<\/p>\n

Fact page \u2018Experimenters Beyond the Grave\u2019<\/em> – from Dorfman & Win Mortimer – details attempts by Harry Houdini, Mackenzie King and Aldous Huxley to send messages from the vale of shades before storytelling resumes in #10 with the Gerry Talaoc\/Redondo Studio limned tale of a Vietnamese Harbinger of Doom in \u2018A Specter Stalks Saigon\u2019<\/em>. Increasingly, superb Filipino artists took on art chores for the ubiquitous Dorfman\u2019s scripts, such as \u2018The Ghost of Wandsgate Gallows\u2019<\/em> by Ernie Chan, detailing the inevitable fate of an English noble who hires and then betrays a contract killer. Although naval savant Sam Glanzman could be the only choice for the US maritime mystery \u2018Death Came at Dawn\u2019<\/em>, Nestor Malgapo artfully handles horrific saga \u2018The Hell Beast of Berkeley Square\u2019<\/em>, which for decades slaughtered guilty and innocents alike in prosperous Mayfair…<\/p>\n

Ghosts<\/strong> #11 opened with Eufronio Reyes (E.R.) Cruz\u2019s contemporary thriller wherein Nazi war criminals recovering long-hidden loot finally pay for their foul crimes in \u2018The Devil\u2019s Lake\u2019<\/em>, before Chan sketches a subway journey where the \u2018Next Stop is Nowhere\u2019<\/em>. Graphic master Grandenetti visually captures \u2018The Specter Who Stalked Cellblock 13\u2019<\/em> (of San Quentin), and Brown returns to illustrate how a church organ killed anyone who played it in \u2018The Instrument of Death\u2019 <\/em>before Sparling charts the sinister coincidences of \u2018The Death Circle\u2019<\/em> dictating that every US President elected in a year ending in zero dies in office. Of course, not everyone today is happy that the myth has been debunked…<\/p>\n

Issue #12 featured \u2018The Macabre Mummy of Takhem-Ahtem\u2019 <\/em>(Calnan): more a traditional monster-mash than purportedly true report, after which Grandinetti\u2019s \u2018Chimes for a Corpse\u2019 <\/em>sees a German watchmaker die for his malicious treatment of an apprentice before the always amazing Glanzman-limned \u2018<\/em>Beyond the Portal of the Unknown\u2019<\/em> closed proceedings in magnificent style when French soldiers in 1915 uncover a terrible tomb and unleash a centuries old vendetta of vengeance…<\/p>\n

Dorfman & Brown open issue #13 with \u2018The Nightmare in the Sandbox\u2019<\/em> detailing a war of voodoo practitioners in Haitian garden, whilst Calnan\u2019s \u2018Voice of Vengeance\u2019<\/em> depicts macabre marionette vengeance on an embezzling official who silences their maker. \u2018Have Tomb, Will Travel\u2019<\/em> (Talaoc) sees contract killers using a scrapyard to lose their latest corpse discover their brand-new car comes with his unquiet spirit as an angry extra as Nestor Redondo depicts the inexplicable experience of lost GIs spending a night in a castle that isn\u2019t there and learning \u2018Hell is One Mile High\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

In #14, an heirloom wedding dress that comes with a curse doesn\u2019t stop Diane Chapman<\/em> marrying her young man in Gernale\u2019s \u2018The Bride Wore a Shroud\u2019<\/em>, whilst \u2018Death Weaves a Web\u2019<\/em> (Kashdan & Chan) sees a bullying uncle live to regret destroying his little nephew\u2019s spider collection – but not for long. Talaoc\u2019s \u2018Phantom of the Iron Horseman\u2019<\/em> finds a young train driver and host of passengers saved from disaster by the spirit of his disgraced grandpa before the issue ends with a catalogue of global portents warning of the appalling 1966 Aberfan tragedy in Cruz\u2019s \u2018The Dark Dream of Death\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gernale opened #15 with \u2018The Ghost that Wouldn\u2019t Die\u2019<\/em>, another case of domestic gold-digging, ectoplasmic doppelgangers and living ghosts, whilst \u2018A Phantom in the Alamo\u2019<\/em> (Carl Wessler & Glanzman) reveals the ghastly fate of the American who sold out the valiant defenders to the Mexican attackers. Alcala lent his prodigious gifts to the Balkan tale of a corpse collector who abandons morality and to profit from his sacred trust in \u2018Who Dares Cheat the Dead?\u2019<\/em> and Rico Rival delineates a gripping yarn wherein a corrupt surgeon is haunted by the hit-and-run victim he\u2019d silenced in \u2018Hand from the Grave\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ghosts<\/strong> #16 has a Spanish \u201cgypsy\u201d cursed to see \u2018Death\u2019s Grinning Face\u2019<\/em> whenever someone is going to die, in a stirring thriller from Rival, and Glanzman again displays his uncanny knack for capturing shipboard life – and death – when, after 25 years, a deserter finally joins his dead comrades in \u2018The Mothball Ghost\u2019<\/em>. Talaoc then delineates Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s services to France after the Little Corporal dies to become \u2018The Haunted Hero of St. Helena\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Issue #17 finds a phantom lady saving flood-lost children in Dorfman & Alcala\u2019s moving \u2018Death Held the Lantern High\u2019<\/em> after which editor Murray Boltinoff & Talaoc reveal \u2018The Specters Were the Stars\u2019 <\/em>as a film company tries to capture the horror of the 1920 Ulster Uprising, whilst Kashdan & Calnan expose the seductive allure and inescapable power of traditional Roma using \u2018The Devil\u2019s Ouija\u2019<\/em> to combat centuries of prejudice…<\/p>\n

This first terrifying tome terminates with Ghosts<\/strong> #18 and Alcala\u2019s account of a hateful Delaware medicine chief still luring white men to his watery \u2018Graveyard of Vengeance\u2019<\/em>, centuries after his death, whilst Abe Ocampo details the unlikely \u2018Death of a Ghost\u2019<\/em> at the hands of a very smug inventor who has just moved into a haunted mansion. Frank Redondo describes how villagers in old Austria knew young Adolf<\/em> would come to a bad end because the boy had \u2018The Eye of Evil\u2019 <\/em>and the spookiness at last ceases with Ernesto Patricio & Talaoc\u2019s \u2018Death Came Creeping\u2019<\/em> as a visiting Egyptian merchant and his unique pet stop a sneak thief\u2019s predations in an age-old manner…<\/p>\n

These turbulent terror-tales captivated readers and critics alike when they first appeared and it\u2019s almost certain that they saved DC during one of the toughest downturns in comics publishing history. Their blend of sinister mirth, classic horror scenarios and suspense set-pieces can most familiarly be seen in such children\u2019s series as Goosebumps<\/strong>, Horrible Histories<\/strong> and their many imitators. Everybody loves a good healthy scare – especially today or even on those dark Christmas nights to come – and this beautiful gathering of ethereal escapism (sadly, still only available in monochrome and paperback) is a treat fans of fear and fantastic art should readily take to their cold, dead hearts…
\n\u00a9 1971, 1972, 1973, 2011 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Leo Dorfman, Murray Boltinoff, John Broome, Jack Miller, Joe Samachson, George Kashdan, Bob Haney, Richard E. Hughes, Carl Wessler, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga, Jim Aparo, Sam Glanzman, Carmine Infantino, Sy Barry, Frank Giacoia, John Calnan, Bob Brown, George Tuska, Wally Wood, Curt Swan, Ruben Moreira, Irwin Hasen, Leonard Starr, Jerry Grandenetti, Nick Cardy, Ramona Fradon, Art … <\/p>\n

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