Cleopatra Has Risen From The Grave

Drew Murdoch was a regular in Fiction House's titles, primarily Jumbo Comics where he was billed as a ghost breaker that specialized in supernatural cases. His first few adventures had genuine monsters, while the next few issues had him exposing crooks posing as monsters, but then went back to dealing with real monsters again. One of these bonafide spooks was the ghost of Cleopatra in Jumbo Comics #65 who made quite a lot of appearances in other Fiction House comics in the 1940s. Murdoch gets a visit from archeologist Avery Mollison who claims he's being haunted by the spirit of the Egyptian queen after an expedition to a tomb went haywire. His collogues Professor Lord and Hulburt egg him on to open up Cleopatra's last resting place. Hulburt hands them a scroll he finds in the grave but gets crushed by the stone cover and his spirit is bonded to the scantily clad ghost. Mollison and Lord make it out of the tomb and a week later are on a ship at Alexandria where Lord falls overboard and is added to Cleopatra's cursed men collection. The story cuts back to Mollison relaying all this to Drew Murdoch whose spiritual expertise leads him to the conclusion that this can all be solved by heading to a late-night matinee. Once at the theater, Drew's car suffers from spontaneous combustion and nearly burns Mollison to death. They shake of the pyrokinetic shock by going back to Drew's place where he gives Mollison a bed to sleep in for the night, only for Drew later finding his bed catching on fire with Mollison in it, and now a part of Cleopatra's ghost posse. Despite seeing the deceased Queen of the Nile over the burning corpse of his client, Drew's official report to the coroner says that Mollison died of smoking in his sleep. Even if you're an incurable skeptic when it comes to the paranormal, I'm pretty sure a professional ghost authority like Drew would be able to have his client's death notice giving a more plausible excuse than a drowsy nicotine fit.