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CATALOG RECORD

House of Mystery #137

DC · Series began 1951 · September 1963

Dates

Cover date
September 1963
On sale
July 3, 1963
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Dick Dillin, Mort Meskin, Howard Sherman, Henry Boltinoff, George Roussosinks: Sheldon Moldoff, George Roussos, Howard Sherman, Henry Boltinoffletters: Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoffscript: Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • The Girl from Two Worlds · 7.67 pages

    Ellen Ward's cousin concocts an elaborate scheme posing as aliens in an attempt to claim her inheritance from a deceased uncle, but Jack Ward figures out the hoax and captures Ellen's cousin and his gang.

  • Tunnel to Disaster! · 8.67 pages

    Mike and Eddie Hunter's construction company is hired to bore a road tunnel through Giant's Tooth, a mountain in the French Alps. As they complete the tunnel they are attacked by beasts, who turn out to be Emile LaTour's tunnel crew from a century before. The beasts save the Hunters' crew from being transformed into beasts and are retrapped in a tunnel cave-in.

  • The Amazing Modern Ancients · 1 pages

    Information about ancient technological feats, including tunnels, cities, rock paintings and more.

  • The Gift of-- Doom · 7.67 pages

    Roger Steele is given a diamond by an unnamed man and told it has a curse that may doom him. He is unable to throw it away without it returning but it is finally stolen and the thief is killed by it.

Reprinted in

Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (1965), Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (2006)

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