HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAVE A FRIGHTFUL NIGHT!

Your Halloween Playlist

Artie Shaw - "Nightmare" (1938)

Bessie Smith - "Graveyard Dream Blues" (1923)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put A Spell on You" (1956)

Tom Waits - Whistlin' Past the Graveyard

Eartha Kitt - "I Want To Be Evil" (1953)

HOUSE OF MYSTERY 100-PAGE SPECTACULAR (PART 2)

HOUSE OF MYSTERY 100-PAGE SPECTACULAR (PART 1)

Always fighting for more market share against Marvel, their biggest rival, DC re-booted one of its more successful mystery/horror titles, HOUSE OF MYSTERY. The new look began with issue #176 (May-June 1968) when Carmine Infantino handed over the editorial reins to EC Comics alumnus, Joe Orlando. Orlando gathered a group of veteran artists from the Pre-Code era including Lee Elias, Mort Meskin, Doug Wildey and Bernard Baily. Oddly comprised of reprints from earlier issues of its sister title, HOUSE OF SECRETS, the timing must have been right because sales started picking up and HoM lasted for another 145 issues until October 1983. Shown today is the first in its run of "100-page Spectaculars".

NOTE: Third-party ads removed.

HOUSE OF MYSTERY

Vol. 23 No. 224

April-May 1974

On-sale date: January 10, 1974

National Periodicals Publications Inc. (DC Comics)

Editors: Joe Orlando (editor); Paul Levitz (assistant editor)

Cover: Gerry Talaoc; Bill Draut; Alfredo Alcala (Montage cover)

Pages: 100

Cover price: 60 cents

CONTENTS

"Night Stalker in Slim City" (Cain the Caretaker)

Script: David Michelinie

Art: Frank Robbins

"The House of Endless Years" (reprinted from House of Secrets #83, December 1969-January 1970, with art modifications)

Script: Gerry Conway

Art: Bill Draut

"The Dead Man's Lucky Scarf"

Script: David Izzo (plot); Michael Fleisher (script)

Art: Alfredo Alcala

"The Reluctant Sorceror" (reprinted from House of Secrets #49, October 1961)

Script: Howard Purcell

Art: Howard Pucell

"Abraca-Doom!" (The Spectre, reprinted from The Spectre #9, March-April 1969)

Script: Denny O'Neil

Art: Bernie Wrightson

"The One and Only, Fully Guaranteed, Super-Permanent, 100%?" (reprinted from House of Secrets #82, October-November 1969)

Script: Marv Wolfman

Art: Dick Dillin; Neal Adams

"The Gift That Wiped Out Time" (reprinted from House of Mystery #120, March 1962)

Script: ?

Art: Mort Meskin; George Roussos

"Sheer Fear!"

Script: Sheldon Mayer

Art: Gerry Talaoc

"The Claws of Death!"

Script: George Kashdan

Art: Alex Niño

"Mystery in Miniature!" (The Phantom Stranger reprinted from The Phantom Stranger #6, June-July 1953)

Script: John Broome

Art: Jerry Grandinetti?

"Photo Finish!"

Script: Steve Skeates

Art: Mike Sekowsky