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Ghosts (DC comics)

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Ghosts is a comic book series published by DC Comics from 1971 to 1982 for 112 issues. It's tag line was, "True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural".

Ghosts was one of the few horror-mystery-suspense DC Comics series. Other notable DC horror titles include House of Secrets and House of Mystery.

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.

First issue

The first issue of this series carried the singular title Ghost.

Issues 2 through 112

Issue 2 changed the series title to the plural Ghosts.

Starting with issue 37 a new regular feature was added. At the front of each book a page of single panel ghost sitings were listed in the fashion of Ripley's Believe It or Not! features.

The editorial page of issue 94 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 introduced to the Ghosts readership the recurring character of 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.