Ghosts (DC Comics)

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caption=Cover to "Ghosts" #6 (July-August 1972). Art by Nick Cardy.
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publisher=DC Comics
date= September-October 1971 to May 1982
issues=112
Horror=y
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"Ghosts" is a comic book series published by DC Comics from September-October 1971 to May 1982 for 112 issues. Its tagline was, "True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural," December 1978, changed to "New Tales..." as of #75, April 1979, and dropped after #104, September 1981.

Overview

"Ghosts" was one of the few horror-mystery-suspense DC Comics series. Other notable DC horror titles include "House of Secrets", "House of Mystery", "The Unexpected", "The Witching Hour", "Secrets of Sinister House", and "Weird War Tales".

Each issue of "Ghosts" carried multiple stories of the supernatural. The stories were prefaced by a short description introducing the premise and ended with a summation of how a mysterious justice was dealt to the evildoers of the tale.

The first issue of this series carried the singular title "Ghost" in its indicia, but everywhere else, including advance promotional house ads and even on its own cover, it was the plural "Ghosts", as even the legal fine print would read from #2 on.

Starting with issue 37, April 1975, a new regular feature was added. At the front of each book a page of single panel depictions of alleged ghost sightings were listed in the fashion of Robert L. Ripley's "Believe it or Not!" features.

The editorial page of issue 94, November 1980, announced, "Welcome to the haunted pages of the new GHOSTS"; two issues previously they had added 8 pages to the comic and 10 cents to the cover price.

Issue 95, December 1980, introduced to the "Ghosts" readership its first (and only) continuing-character feature, "Dr. 13 - The Ghost-Breaker." Dr. 13 was not an original creation of "Ghosts" but one introduced to the DC universe in 1951 on the pages of "Star-Spangled Comics" #122, and had more recently been put to significant use in "The Phantom Stranger". Thirteen last appeared in #102, July 1981.

References

*gcdb series|id=1979|title="Ghosts"
*comicbookdb|type=title|id=7206|title="Ghosts"
* [http://www.comics-db.com/DC_Comics/G/Ghosts/index.html "Ghosts"] at the Big Comic Book DataBase

External links

* [http://www.dcdatabaseproject.com/Comics_Ghosts Ghosts] at the DC Database Project
* [http://www.dcindexes.com/gallery/covers-browse.php?select=ghosts DC Indexes Ghosts Cover Gallery]