Wait, an actual horror comic! That may or may not be scary, but E for effort.

Wow, this comic looks like it crawled outta a grave! The cover promises "The Nightmare Men" and "Three More Macabre Mysteries" but there's actually five stories total. Which still doesn't help, but...from 1975, Uncanny Tales From the Grave #9. Cover by Ed Hannigan and Klaus Janson, maybe.

On said cover, "The Nightmare Men" are terrible monsters, but in the titular story they look like they're from a branch of service, with admittedly terrible color schemes. I suppose you don't need camo for nightmares, though. A dictator gets treatment for his nightmares, from a doctor with a brother in a concentration camp. The doctor is disappointed in himself that he didn't murder the dictator, but his cure might not have helped the dictator, either. (Art by Mac L. Pakula.) That one and the opener, "Don't Answer the Phone!" were both from 1957's Strange Tales of the Unusual #10, Comics Code-approved horror. Boo. It's a nice Gray Morrow opening shot, for a slight tale about a murderer hounded by phone calls from the grave until he confesses.

"Four Empty Chairs!" is a mystery, with a weird old man on the edge of town, who sits down to dinner every night with four empty chairs; as his family had disappeared after a lightning strike years before. But it seemed like he was talking to somebody, so the sheriff brings in a guy to read lips and see what he was saying...yeah, that seems like official business there. The old guy doesn't seem to notice the small crowd outside his window, like he was a store display; but it gets more nonsensical from there. (From 1957's Mystery Tales #51, art by Marvin Stein.)

"Peter and the Puppet!" opens with a wink, acknowledging savvy readers would have seen a million living puppet stories by that point, but were banking on the twist: the two seem to get along quite well, until they both fall for the same dame. Rather than let the puppet declare his love for her--and out him as a non-ventriloquist fraud--Peter hacks the puppet into kindling. The next day, the girl is surprised to see him without the puppet; she'd never seen them apart before, setting up a halfway decent twist! (From 1952's Marvel Tales #110, art by Bill Benulis and Jack Abel. Pre-Code, not that I think it mattered.)

The final story, "When the Walls Close In!" is described in the GCD as "An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess." Although, said war criminal is also working as a vet, and plotting to steal his young assistant's growth hormone research to pass off as his own. The assistant gets wise to his scheme, and tells him his notes didn't include the secret ingredient, so nyah. He throws the stuff at a wall before leaving, and the walls seem to move, closing in on the war criminal, until he runs outside and confesses everything to a passing cop car. Dumb, but there's a scene where the criminal yells at the assistant, claiming the research was rightfully his, since he had been working for him; which seems like a rebuttal to the work-for-hire system the creators would have been under...(Art by Bob Brown.)