House of Mystery (1951 series) (DC) #43

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Number	43
Volume
No Volume	No
Display Volume With Number	No
Indicia Publisher
Indicia Publisher Not Printed	Printed
Brand
No Brand	No
Publication Date	October 1955
Key Date	1955-10-10
Year On Sale	None
Month On Sale	None
Day On Sale	None
On Sale Date Uncertain	No
Indicia Frequency
No Indicia Frequency	No
Price	0.10 USD
Page Count	36 (note: total sum of story page counts is 31.67)
Page Count Uncertain	No
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth
No Editing
Barcode
No Barcode	Yes
Notes	Indicia states "published monthly by National Comics Publications, Inc.".
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Sequence Number	0
Title	The Imp on the Flying Trapeeze!
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	cover
Feature
Genre	Occult
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Bill Ely
No Pencils
Inks	Bill Ely
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
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Synopsis
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Notes	Indicia states "published monthly by National Comics Publications, Inc.".
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Sequence Number	1
Title	The Man Who Could Read Minds
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature
Genre	Mystery
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Howard Purcell
No Pencils
Inks	Stan Kaye
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	6
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis	A mind-reader blackmails several men because he knows all their secrets.
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Sequence Number	2
Title	Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	promo (ad from the publisher)
Feature
Genre
Job Number
Script
No Script
Pencils
No Pencils
Inks
No Inks
Colors
No Colors
Letters
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis	Ad for Frontier Fighters featuring Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Tomahawk with covers of each pictured.
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Sequence Number	3
Title	"Strange, I see nothing in the crystal ball!"
Unofficial Title?	Yes
Type	filler
Feature	Shorty
Genre	Humor
Job Number
Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
No Script
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
No Pencils
Inks	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Henry Boltinoff ?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters	Shorty
Synopsis	Shorty goes to a fortune teller who can't tell his fortune.
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Original Reprint Notes		The migration of the following original reprint notes needs confirmation: in My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #45 (July 1960)
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Sequence Number	4
Title	The Midget Maker
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature
Genre	Mystery
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Ruben Moreira (signed)
No Pencils
Inks	Ruben Moreira (signed)
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	6
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis	A criminal "professor" hides criminals after a hold-up by shrinking them, but one of the criminals is actually an under-cover cop.
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Sequence Number	5
Title	"Hmm, let's see -- I'll just add a bit more --"
Unofficial Title?	Yes
Type	filler
Feature	Professor Eureka
Genre	Humor
Job Number
Script	Henry Boltinoff
No Script
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
No Pencils
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Henry Boltinoff ?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	0.67
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters	Professor Eureka
Synopsis	Professor Eureka tries to make coffee.
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Notes
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Original Reprint Notes		The migration of the following original reprint notes needs confirmation: from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #7 (April 1951)
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Sequence Number	6
Title	What Are You Getting Out of School?
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	public service announcement
Feature	Buzzy
Genre	Teen
Job Number
Script	Jack Schiff
No Script
Pencils	Win Mortimer
No Pencils
Inks	Win Mortimer
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Ira Schnapp
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
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Notes	Credits from other indexes of this PSA in the GCD.
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Sequence Number	7
Title	The Master of the Stars
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature
Genre	Mystery
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Jim McArdle
No Pencils
Inks	Jim McArdle
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	6
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis	An efficency expert changes the way businesses do business to save them money, and to make them easier to rob, then dresses as a phoney fortune-teller, Centauri, to guide robbers.
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Sequence Number	9
Title	"The crystal ball says sunny and warm today..."
Unofficial Title?	Yes
Type	filler
Feature	Moolah the Mystic
Genre	Humor
Job Number
Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
No Script
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
No Pencils
Inks	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Henry Boltinoff ?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters	Moolah the Mystic
Synopsis	Moolah's crystal ball and the newspaper don't agree on what the weather is going to be.
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Notes
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Original Reprint Notes		The migration of the following original reprint notes needs confirmation: in Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #83 (June-July 1964)
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Sequence Number	10
Title	The Imp on the Flying Trapeze
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature
Genre	Mystery
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Bill Ely
No Pencils
Inks	Bill Ely
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	6
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis	Marko, a trapeeze artist who lost his nerve, helps a tree and gains the friendship of a wood elf.
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