Scary Tales • The Drowned Girl • p03

This story begins with Bently Cranford informing his summer fling Maryann that their relationship was finished, as he was returning home to marry his rich girlfriend. When Maryann doesn't take that well, Cranford strangles her and throws her overboard. That's never a good idea in a horror comic, and soon he finds himself haunted by Maryann's ghost when he returns home, straining his relationship with his fiancée until he's compelled to return to the scene of the crime.

If you can get past the printing, it's a pretty decent effort by Ditko, especially some of the slightly off-beat angles in the underwater scenes. I also really liked some of the effects of the boat in stormy seas towards the end of the story.

BY BOB: http://ditko.blogspot.com/2011/01/scary-tales-12-1978.html