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House of Mystery #5

DC · Series began 1951 · August 1952

Dates

Cover date
August 1952
On sale
May 27, 1952
Pages
44

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Ruben Moreira, Win Mortimer, Curt Swan, Ray Thompson, Jim Mooney, Howard Purcellinks: Ruben Moreira, Win Mortimer, Ray Thompson, George Kleinletters: Ira Schnappscript: Jack Schiff, Jack Miller

Stories

  • The Man with the Strangler Hands! · 7.67 pages

    John Croydon commits a series of robberies and murders. When caught by the police he tells a fantastic tale: His hands are those of a gangster who died in a jungle plane crash. A witch doctor transplanted them to Croydon, thus condemning him to a life of crime. The police prove him wrong.

  • The Caravan of Miracles! · 7.67 pages

    Peter Farrell has traveled the world and stole all the secrets behind miracles like the Indian rope trick and such. Putting them together for an US-American road show he is haunted by mystics. Farrell, however, is only hallucinating.

  • Double Mourning! · 0.5 pages

    An Illinois girl possesses the memories of a dead child.

  • The Man Who Was Death! · 5.67 pages

    Fred Jones believes that his touch causes death.

  • A Piece of Rope! · 4 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.

  • Dead or Alive? · 1 pages

    Account of an out of body experience writer Robert Louis Stevenson had in 1892.

  • She Wrote What Ghosts Dictated · 2 pages

    Life story of Madame Blavatsky.

  • I Was a Witch! · 7.67 pages

    Leslie Cantwell visits her brother Roy in the country. The failed painter plans to drive her to suicide to inherit the family money. Husband Bruce, however, can foil the evil plot.

Reprinted in

Showcase (1956), Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (1956), The Unexpected (1968), DC Special (1968), Haunted Tales (1973)

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