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House of Mystery #81

DC · Series began 1951 · December 1958

Dates

Cover date
December 1958
On sale
October 2, 1958
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bill Ely, Howard Purcell, George Roussos, Gil Kane, Bob Brown, Mort Meskininks: Bill Ely, Howard Purcell, George Roussos, Gil Kane, Bob Brownletters: Ira Schnapp, Gaspar Saladinoscript: Jack Schiff

Stories

  • The Man Who Made Utopia · 5.67 pages

    The mysterious Mr. Erutuf builds a futuristic city of houses for sale, but the people of Earth prove themselves unready for its scientific advances.

  • The Prisoners of the Paints · 5.67 pages

    Struggling artist Warren Dale finds an old box of oil paints that magically allow him to paint a picture of a sorcerer who then steps out of the painting.

  • The Boy with the Super Powers! · 5.67 pages

    Two strange men ask a farmer and his wife to take in a young boy, who is eventually revealed to be the heir to the throne of a faraway planet, in hiding from enemies who want to assume power.

  • City of Hallucinations · 1 pages
  • The Menace of the Alien Test Tubes! · 7.67 pages

    An alien missile comes to Earth containing four unknown chemicals in test-tubes which cause powerful and dangerous reactions, and serve as a warning to two scientists who have developed a miraculous invention of their own.

Reprinted in

Five-Score Comic Monthly (1958), Mystery in Space (1958)

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