comics scribe Mark Millar is wondering about a DC horror book from his childhood:
"Okay, as you know, I'm doing up my study right now and filling the walls with covers that mean something to me. I never actually OWNED this comic, but I remember seeing it in ads when I was a kid. You remember those ads? the ones that showed nine covers in a single page and you had to squint to read the text?
I'm guessing this comic was either Ghosts or The Witching Hour and the cover had a couple coming into a house and saying how pleased they were to be out of the rain on a stormy night, etc, in this place where it was REALLY SAFE. Cue, horrifying, witchy/demon face on the right hand side of the cover laughing because he/ she/ it knows this couple are getting bumped off ASAP.
Looking at www.comics.org, I can find nothing. What's weird is that pretty much every cover from this period (75/76/77) seems to be a play on the idea of someone coming in a door on the left side of the cover and thinking they're safe NOT REALIZING something monstrous is waiting for them on the right side of the panel. And what's even weirder is that it works every time. This was employed a lot in mid 70s horror, but quite a few times in the superhero books too (especially The Flash).
Anyway, please help.
MM "