CATALOG RECORD

Secrets of Haunted House #45

DC · Series began 1975 · February 1982

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Dates

Cover date: February 1982
On sale: October 20, 1981
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #45 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Newsstand edition

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0709893247002
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Creators

pencils: Ernie Colón, Howard Bender, Tom Sutton, Curt Swan, Ric Estrada, Steve Ditko, Vic Cataninks: Joe Orlando, Larry Mahlstedt, Tom Sutton, Vince Colletta, Ric Estrada, Steve Ditko, Vic Catanscript: Robin Snyder, Jack C. Harris, Thomas Sciacca, Stan Timmons, Robert Kanigherletters: Shelly Leferman, Ben Oda, Pierre Bernard Jr.colors: Jerry Serpe

Stories

The Passing of the Power! · 7 pages
Modern day New York City college math teacher Marcus Locke inherits a mysterious belt from his sorcerer father endowing him with supernatural powers.
The Final Page · 3 pages
William Castle buys a newspaper from one year in the future, and greatly benefits from the knowledge found therein, until...
Star-Trakker · 8 pages
An android from a crashed spacecraft follows its programming by collecting samples of various lifeforms from in and around the Louisiana swamps. Agent Stone is surreptitiously dispatched by the government to stop it.
The Royal House of the Dead · 8 pages
Miss Lora Graves learns she is a reincarnated soul.

Characters

Abel

Reprinted in

The Steve Ditko Omnibus (2011)