Mysterious Traveler: The Steve Ditko Archives (Vol. 3)  (The Steve Ditko Archives)
The latest entry in the series reprinting the early work of celebrated comic book artist Ditko is devoted to horror stories done in 1957 for bargain-basement publisher Charlton Comics. The tales, with titles like “The Thing from Below” and “The Forbidden Room,” are mostly hackneyed stuff, but that barely matters, since the whole show here is Ditko’s distinctly off-kilter drawings and boldly potent compositions. Charlton’s comics suffered from muddy printing on cheap paper, but meticulous restoration means that the stories look far better here than they did upon their original appearances. --Gordon Flagg