CATALOG RECORD

DC Special #4

DC · Series began 1968 · July-September 1969

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Dates

Cover date: July-September 1969
On sale: May 22, 1969
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Neal Adams, Bill Draut, Ed Smalle, Jack Kirby, Jerry Grandenetti, Leonard Starr, George Roussos, Ralph Mayo, George Papp, John Prentice, Gene Colan, Bernard Baily, Ruben Moreirainks: Neal Adams, Bill Draut, Ed Smalle, Jack Kirby, Jerry Grandenetti, Leonard Starr, George Roussos, Joe Giella, Ralph Mayo, George Papp, John Prentice, Gene Colan, Bernard Baily, Ruben Moreiraletters: Gaspar Saladino, Ira Schnapp, Pat Gordonscript: Mark Hanerfeld, Murray Boltinoff

Stories

13 Shock-Ending Stories 13 · 8.33 pages
Ghost Writer · 3.33 pages
Billy Conway; Mike Foster (death)
The Magic Hammer! · 5.33 pages
Gerald Bard finds Thor's hammer and uses it as a rainmaker, but Thor arrives to retrieve it. The story explains that Thor’s hammer was stolen from him by Loki.
A Piece of Rope! · 3.33 pages
While rummaging through the house of a deceased man, reporter George Hackett finds a treasure, and commits a crime trying to get his hands on it.
"Last Mile" Martin · 3.33 pages
The murderer James Martin is pardoned because the electric chair is not functioning. Stepping outside he is killed accidentally by a ricocheting bullet.
The Dream Lamp · 6 pages
Cyrus Perkins experiences his adventures through the help of a "dream lamp.
Door of No Return? · 1.67 pages
Don Miguel learns a valuable lesson after he tries to cheat a poor village out of a magical artifact which nearly traps him in another dimension.
Beware After Dark! · 5.5 pages
Mrs. Dutton's cat Wendy is in reality a shape-shifting alien from the planet Deneb. At night it leaves the house and goes on a killing spree to decimate human life.
The Tree Man of Tanganyika! · 1.67 pages
Written in the Sands! · 1.67 pages
The Secret of Salzo the Great! · 3.67 pages
Stage magician Salzo commits crimes by hypnotizing his victims.
Blakjelly Beens · 1 pages
Secret Locked in the Ice! · 1.5 pages
A thief returns to the Alps to recover stolen money previously lost there, but the search ends in his capture.
The Bullet Man! · 5.33 pages
Due to a mixture of elements from a meteorite and scrap metal from an atomic research lab in his ID tag, inmate Chick Durant is able to leave his cell for 25 minutes at a time. But Durant is stuck on an uncharted island when he reshapes his tag, altering the mixture.
The Strange Faces of Death! · 5.67 pages
Elmo Hackett, collector of death masks of people who died unnatural deaths, leads the reader through his exhibition. Until he finds his own mask on display.