(Cat-Man Comics 004, 1941)
The Upper New York Castle District appears to also exist in the Temerson/Helnit universe, because when NYC-based vigilante the Ragman is hired to investigate a supposed haunting at a place called Glascow Castle he hops in his car and drives there. Glascow Castle's owner, Sir Wilkens Sidney, claims to have seen the ghost of 18th Century murder victim Duke Edgeroy wandering the halls of his home and believes that the Ragman is the man to get to the bottom of things before he flees into the night screaming.
And it turns out that Sir Sidney is correct, because the Ragman isn't in the castle for five minutes before he discovers a secret basement full of counterfeiting equipment and finds himself battling a very solid Ghost and his even less ghostly henchmen.
After a bit of back and forth involving swordplay, deathtraps and a trained attack dog the Ghost is finally unmasked and revealed to be racketeer Marty Vance, who was so invested in the castle as a perfect location for his operation that he moved in despite the fact that Sir Sidney was already living there. Perhaps he was in it for the love of the haunting game as much as the counterfeiting, who knows.
One thing I'll say about this particular Ghost: he's got one of the more horrifying masks that I've seen on one of his ilk.
Categorized under: Accessories (Headquarters (Castle)), Extortion & Fraud (Counterfeiting/ Fake Ghost), Supranormal Beings (Ghosts)
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