I was organizing and I came across Ghost Manor number 2 1968. Curious thing is that under the cover instead of page one is the exact same cover. I guess there was a snag when it went through the stapling machine. Anyone else ever see one of these?
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I have a copy of Superman #394 like that.
This is it. Good cover in my opinion.
I often like Charlton covers. Rocke was Rocco Mastroserio. He drew some other very nice covers, and three of the Captain Atom stories from the character's first run at the start of the 60s, along with, I'm sure, many other things.
That kind of thing happened a lot with Charlton. They owned their own printer and didn't pay much attention to quality control. I've seen several double cover Charlton comics, as well as covers that weren't folded right and were stapled crooked onto the rest of the comic. I also saw one oddball that I passed on because it was unreadable. Somehow they had missed the black plate. The comic had all the colors but no black anywhere. The words were there, but they were red or yellow and trying to read them was a waste of time and gave me a headache. Surprising they lasted as long as they did since they obviously didn't care whether they had good comics or not. Lots of reprints in the 70s and 80s, artwork less than professional, and far too many covers that depicted stories that weren't in that issue but had been in an earlier issue or would appear in a later issue. I collected Charlton horror comics in the late 80s and early 90s when they were usually only about a dollar. I stopped when I noticed I was getting several copies of the same stories, the artwork was often terrible, and the colors were often way out of the lines, a problem Harvey also had. Wendy the Good Little Witch often had blank Orphan Annie eyes with two large blue dots floating next to them.
I remember getting a Charlton comic once that had a cover that belonged on a different title.
I have two double-covered comics in my collection: a Harvey Dick Tracy and a Silver Age Green Lantern. In both cases, the outer cover has kept the inner cover near mint. If I had them graded, they'd actually get a higher grade if I tore the cover off! I've asked around about double covers in the past. They are a curiosity, but the general consensus is they add not value to the comic itself. A printing error in a coin is worth big bucks, but in comics a printing error is just a printing error.