Ghost Manor #1 for Sale - First Appearance of The Old Witch - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Ghost Manor (Charlton, 1968 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: July 1968
Key date: 1968-07-00
Indicia publisher: Charlton Press Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Old Witch - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	A Matter of Grave Concern	cover	1	pencils: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; letters: Herb Field
2	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; letters: Jon D'Agostino	The Old Witch First
3	A Matter of Grave Concern!	comic story	17	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Mo Marcus; inks: Sal Trapani; letters: Jon D'Agostino	The Old Witch First
6	Death Defying	text story	1	letters: typeset
8	Mr. Henshaw's Friend	comic story	9	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Mo Marcus; inks: Sal Trapani; letters: Jon D'Agostino	The Old Witch First
9	These Haunting Spirits..	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Plus 6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Haunted #43	1979	On eBay ›
Ghost Manor #56	1981	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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