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House of Mystery #252

DC · Series began 1951 · May-June 1977

Dates

Cover date
May-June 1977
On sale
February 15, 1977
Pages
84

Editions and covers

  • Original edition

    Barcode 0709893053006

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Creators

pencils: Neal Adams, Curt Swan, John Calnan, Don Perlin, Sergio Aragonés, Alfredo Alcala, Bill Draut, Frank Redondo, Derek Carter, Frank Robbins, Rudy Florese, Steve Ditko, Alex Niñoinks: Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Jack Abel, Romeo Tanghal, Sergio Aragonés, Alfredo Alcala, Bill Draut, Tex Blaisdell, Derek Carter, Frank Robbins, Rudy Florese, Steve Ditko, Alex Niñoletters: Ben Oda, Gaspar Saladinoscript: Paul Kupperberg, Sergio Aragonés, Bill Kunkel, Jack Oleck, David Michelinie, Bob Rozakis, Arnold Drake, Jack C. Harris, Marjorie Darland, Jenette Kahn, Mike Gold

Stories

  • The Devil Strikes at My Old Kentucky Home! · 8 pages

    The House of Mystery is scouted as a location for an amusement park, then for a movie, but Cain and his fellow weird inhabitants scare everyone away.

  • The House Called Blefestry · 6 pages

    Owen Sherwood is haunted by terrible nightmares, but when he consults a psychiatrist he learns that the nightmares are real.

  • The Man Who Saw Tomorrow! · 6 pages

    An evil baron steals the secret of foretelling the future from an alchemist, but it leads to his death.

  • Markham's Masterpiece · 8 pages

    Stanley Markham steals sculptures done by an old lady and passes them off as his own. Eventually he murders her so she can't reveal the truth, but her ghost returns for revenge.

  • Grim Choice! · 8 pages

    After a plane crash in the mountains, Dolph Culhane is forced to eat the race horse he just bought in order to stay alive, but after he is rescued he learns that the horse was diseased, just as he starts to feel the symptoms himself.

  • Man Killers · 5 pages

    A gang of conquering barbarians are captured and killed by a band of Amazons.

  • The House of Secrets Speaks... Out · 3 pages

    Two people arrive at Abel's door to see if his house can be used to relocate Cain when the House of Mystery is torn down.

  • From Beyond the Grave! · 9 pages

    Maude West finally joins her dead fiancee, fifty years after the accident that killed him.

  • Untitled · 1 pages

    Single gag cartoon of a beautiful witch changing into an ugly witch so her friends don't find out.

Characters

CainAbelDestiny

Reprinted in

Terror Tales Album (1977)

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