CATALOG RECORD

House of Mystery #3

DC · Series began 1951 · April-May 1952

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Dates

Cover date: April-May 1952
On sale: February 4, 1952
Pages: 44

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Bob Brown, Win Mortimer, Morris Waldinger, Ruben Moreira, Ray Thompson, Howard Purcell, Jon Small, Raymond Perry, Curt Swan, Fred Harmaninks: Ray Burnley, Win Mortimer, Bob Brown, Morris Waldinger, Ruben Moreira, Ray Thompson, Howard Purcell, George Roussos, Raymond Perry, Stan Kaye, Fred Harmanletters: Ira Schnapp, Gaspar Saladino, Morris Waldingerscript: Jack Schiff, Don King

Stories

The Dummy of Death! · 7.67 pages
Ventriloquist James Lang murders his colleague Wendell and steals his puppet "Blockhead". He manages to be successful, until Blockhead starts talking and revealing the murder of his former puppeteer.
The Mysterious Painting! · 0.67 pages
Two painters separately paint the same picture.
She Wakes Up Screaming · 6 pages
Mary Stokes suffers from bouts of madness. Her husband and her doctor surprise her with weird tricks to shock her back to sanity.
Ancient Legend! · 0.67 pages
Account of haunted landscapes.
The Prophecy of Doom · 6 pages
A party of explorers opens up an Egyptian tomb and is hit by a curse of death and madness. Professor Sutton, however, has been manipulating events for his own financial benefit.
I Was a Victim of Black Magic! · 4 pages
A wheat fungus makes a French woman fantasize about demons.
He Hunted Ghosts · 2 pages
Ghost-hunter Harry Price investigates haunted Borley Rectory in England.
The House Where Evil Lived! · 7.67 pages
Paul and Helen Morris win a house on the Mexican border which is said to be haunted. Three men died there, and nightly spooks keep running through the cellar. Turns out that illegal aliens are smuggled through the house into US territory.

Reprinted in

Tales of the Unexpected (1956), House of Secrets (1956), All Star Adventure Comic (1959), The Phantom Stranger (1969)