House of Mystery #1
DC Comics
United States
- Published
- December 1951-January 1952
- Page count
- 44
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/9270
Credits
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
Issue contents
Cover
Wanda Was a Werewolf
Cover, 1 page
1Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jean Brewster; Carter Blake; Boris Wilder
Credits
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Ray Burnley
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #162 (March-April 1975) — I Fell in Love with a Witch!
-
Weird Mystery Tales Annual (KG Murray, 1975 series) #2 ([1976?]) — I Fell in Love with a Witch!
Synopsis
Private investigator Carter Blake falls head over heels in love with Jean Brewster. Without knowing anything about her, he's willing to marry her. Checking old newspaper clippings, Blake finds out that his fiancée seems to posess witch-like powers. Three of her former husbands died after her "kiss of death".
Notes
Inking credit from Millennium Edition reprint.
2Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
Credits
- Art
- Bob Brown
Synopsis
Dr. Hunt gets addicted to a formula which transforms him into a brutish beast and commands him to murder his friends. Hunt remains undetected because he changes back to human form just in time.
Notes
Variation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
First-person narrative.
3Featuring
- Genre
- Non-fiction; horror-suspense
Synopsis
In Paris, Missouri, a woman in black haunted the town for years.
4Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man spends the night in haunted Seabury manor and dies 24 hours later. Just before he was able to develop photographic proof of a ghost living there.
Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Bernie Krigstein ? for pencils and inks.
5"I don't beleive that story, Al--"
Featuring
- Feature
- Casey the Cop
- Genre
- Humor
- Characters
- Casey the Cop
Credits
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff
6Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
Credits
- Author
- David Kahn
7Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
Credits
- Pencils
- Win Mortimer ?
Reprint history
Synopsis
Doug Martin visits the village of his fiancée Wanda where the townsfolk are hunting a female werewolf. Martin is led to believe that Wanda is the beast, but then discovers a plot to drug her into her strange behavior.
Notes
First-person narrative
8"An Ozark story, which goes back to Colonial days, tells of a young man..."
Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
Credits
- Art
- Morris Waldinger
Synopsis
A young man thinks a ghost is following him, but it's only a white ribbon attached to his hat.
Notes
Pencil and ink credits from Millennium Edition credits.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.