The Early Ghost Of Doctor Graves

Charlton had a good baseball team's worth of horror hosts, but one of few to get his own title was Dr. M.T. Graves. Before getting a regular gig as host of The Many Ghosts Of Doctor Graves, our mysterious medicine man had a career in various other horror comic shorts as a professional Ghost Fighter. In one of his first adventures from Ghostly Tales #55 which only lasted three pages, the Doctor makes a house call on the distressed Pamela Simms. The story opens up with Doc G already having an established career as a paranormal investigator and arriving at Pamela's old estate to bust a supposed ghost yelling at her to abandon her house. Graves somehow instinctively knows that the shadowy figure is not supernatural even though another entity appears claiming to be Pamela's great-grandpa who wants her to restore the place. The real ghost spooks away the fake one who breaks through a hidden doorway and revealed to be Pamela's greedy cousin Philip that was kicked out of his inheritance. Dr. Graves proclaims that the estate is still haunted but only by guardian ghosts that will protect the new owner, but the Ghost Fighter didn't seem to be actually needed in his premiere appearance as he didn't do anything to clear up the matter as his occult knowledge served to warn his client of the false scare tactics. So, Philip would have gotten away with his scheme if it weren't for those meddling ghosts!