Ghosts #1 is an issue of the series Ghosts (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1971.
Synopsis for "Death's Bridegroom"
The police discover the body of a young woman who committed suicide, with a note saying she took her own life because the man she was engaged to only courted her to steal her life savings and leave her penniless in a tenement. The swindler who stole from her ends up lost in a fog as he skips town, and comes across a mansion owned by a strange beautiful woman who claims to be waiting for her long lost fiancee. She seems the perfect new target to him, but little does he know she and her home have long rotted away and with his proposal he joins her in the fog.
Appearing in "Death's Bridegroom"
Characters:
- Sharon Dean (As a spirit)
- Burton (As a spirit)
- Wedding Guests (As a spirit)
Antagonists
- Rod Tracey "a third rate American actor" (Dies)
- Cyrus Horne
- David Colby (Flashback only)
Locations:
- London
- Dean Estate
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Synopsis for "Ghost in the Iron Coffin"
A resistance fighter is caught and executed while trying to sabotage a Nazi U-Boat, but haunts the vessel killing its crew until he's able to use his spiritual powers to turn the U-Boat's own torpedoes against it and destroy it.
Appearing in "Ghost in the Iron Coffin"
Characters:
- Franz Kollmer (As a spirit)
- Nazi Party
- Dunkel (Dies)
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Synopsis for "The Tattooed Terror"
Appearing in "The Tattooed Terror"
Characters:
- Richard Forman (Dies)
- Marvelo
- Burt Jorgens (Dies)
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Synopsis for "The Last Dream"
Tybalt Fletcher, the last of his line, dies in a feud with the Beaumont clan. His ghost then spends the next 400 years killing Beaumonts with the pistol he requested he be buried with.
Appearing in "The Last Dream"
Characters:
- Tybalt Fletcher (Dies)
- Frederic Beaumont I (Dies)
- Edgar Beaumont (Dies)
- Willard Beaumont (Dies)
- Frederic Beaumont II (Dies)
- Sir Francis Drake
- Dr. Petri Vorcine
- Harry
- Thomas
- Jenkins
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Synopsis for "The Spectral Coachman"
A young modern prospector is rescued from a pack of wolves by the ghost of a long dead stagecoach driver.
Appearing in "The Spectral Coachman"
Characters:
- Rafe Brady (As a spirit)
- Johnny Cass
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Notes
- The interior indicia on this first issue entitles the series simply as Ghost, even though the cover reads Ghosts. Beginning with issue #2, the indicia begins using the Ghosts title.
- "The Tattooed Terror" was originally printed in Sensation Mystery #112.
- "The Last Dream" was originally printed in Sensation Comics #107.
Trivia
- The cover to this issue is reprinted on the splash page of Ghosts #100.