Aliens Vs. Ghosts

Countess Von Bludd hosted her share of Charlton Comics' chillers, usually in the pages of Scary Tales, and in Issue 7 she narrated one of her most baffling stories, Trespassers. Joe Gill wrote this cross-genre of sci-fi and horror with intriguing art by Enrique Nieto about a pair of aliens hiding out in an old mansion as observers of humanity while disguising themselves as ghosts. It's a pretty good scheme as far as alien infiltration is concerned because you at least don't have a bunch of hayseeds claiming to have seen flying saucers after one of their cows gets dissected. Belinda Pearce and her husband inherit her grandfather's estate which includes the Rudleigh house, a spooky pad that the Munsters would probably use for their summer place. Upon first arriving at the messy mansion, the resident aliens take on the forms of Rudleigh couple who first owned the place so their Earth assignment won't be detected by the Men in Black. Even after encountering what they think is a ghost woman, the Pearces still don't believe in spooks. The aliens disguised as ghosts try to do away with the living couple out of the house they're squatting at while the Pearces are sleeping and take their place, however the real ghosts of the Rudleighs show up to stop them. The aliens reveal themselves as stereotypical cthulhu squid-headed creatures as they prepare to bust the ghosts, but the specters manage the pull the ultimate Yugioh card by summoning up none other than Satan himself and he does them a solid by blasting the space monsters to oblivion, and the Pearces wake up thinking the whole thing was just a shared nightmare. The genuine Rudleigh spirits dissipate and leave their living descendants alone making the house no longer haunted. This was a case of an amazing concept getting folded to fast to short 8-page story. You could have had an entire supernatural vs. paranormal battle between two opposing forces that go largely unseen from living eyes. Instead of dwelling on the otherworldly clash of two worlds, the comic spent too much time on the clueless couple that wandered onto the set of a Jean Yarbrough B-movie.