House of Mystery
#23
(February 1954)
DC,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-12-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
The Flying Dutchman!
comic story / 6 pages
- Synopsis
- Unemployed seaman Mike Dillon gets shanghaied onto the fabled Flying Dutchman where he has to do menial work. Dillon protests and drives a cutlass through the cruel captain’s heart. The captain is unharmed, though. Later on Dillon finds out that the sword is just a fake one and the ship a front for a sailing counterfeiting operation.
[no title indexed]
Dubble Bubble / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ray Thompson (signed as Ray T.)
- Inks
- Ray Thompson (signed as Ray T.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Headhunters live in this part of the jungle!
- Genre
- children
The Phantom Highwayman Rides Again!
comic story / 6 pages
- Synopsis
- London eccentric Derek Drew falls in love with a young woman named Minerva and starts to court her. Drew has a dark secret, he was a highwayman of the 16th century who was betrayed by a woman also named Minerva.
The Line of Stars Presents
Bob Hope; Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
House ad for The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (DC, 1952 series) #10 and The Adventures of Bob Hope (DC, 1950 series) #25, with cover repros.
Body Possessed
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
-
in House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #19 (April 1959) - in The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #108 (August-September 1968)
-
in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #9/1970 ([mai] 1970)
-
Indexer Notes
Art id by Bob Rozakis and Gene Reed.
The Gangster and the Ghost!
comic story / 5.67 pages
- Synopsis
- American gangster Earl Crandall learns that he has English roots and used to be the Earl of Crandall. Not believing, of course, that a ghost haunts the castle he inherits, Crandall enters the premises in the company of a “ghost-breaker”.
- Reprints
-
in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #69 ([June 1971] ?) -
in Relatos Fabulosos (Editorial Novaro, 1959 series) #160 (15 de noviembre de 1973)
-
Voice from Nowhere!
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
- in Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #36 (April 1959)
-
The Stamps of Doom!
comic story / 5.67 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ruben Moreira (signed)
- Inks
- Ruben Moreira (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Collector Alex Manning excavates the quarters of a Nazi concentration camp commander – where 13 rare stamps depicting atrocities are kept. Whoever owns the fatal stamps will meet an untimely death.
- Reprints
- in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #228 (December 1974-January 1975) which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #8 ([October 1978]) [Host (Cain), job number (J-3784), and copyright details deleted from pp1 of reprint. Page headings deleted: “The House of Mystery” (odd pages) and “Stamps of Doom” (even pages), except for pp1.]
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Indexer Notes
Cover story.
[no title indexed]
Motor's Auto Repair Manual / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Manufacturing Company / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Fred Harman (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Harman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Stamps of Doom!
-
1.
[no title indexed]
Lucky Song Parade Co. -
2.
The Flying Dutchman!
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3.
["Headhunters live in this part of the jungle!"]
Dubble Bubble -
4.
Editorial Advisory Board
Superman DC National Comics -
5.
The Best Present of All!
Binky -
6.
The Phantom Highwayman Rides Again!
-
7.
The Line of Stars Presents
Bob Hope; Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis -
8.
Body Possessed
-
9.
The Gangster and the Ghost!
-
10.
[no title indexed]
Wildroot Cream-Oil -
11.
The Man Who Made Gold
-
12.
Voice from Nowhere!
-
13.
The Stamps of Doom!
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14.
Superman on Television! Is Super-TV
The Adventures of Superman -
15.
[no title indexed]
Cheerful Card Company -
16.
[no title indexed]
Motor's Auto Repair Manual -
17.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Manufacturing Company
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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