House of Mystery
#34
(January 1955)
DC,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1954-11-02
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Hundred-Year Duel!
comic story / 6 pages
- Synopsis
- American native Charlie Whitehorse of Sioux descent feels compelled to battle a Crow warrior – as their forefathers decreed a hundred years ago. Their duel to the death in a nightly baseball stadium ends with the burying of the war-axe.
Indexer Notes
First-person narrative.
Superboy Says: "Know Your Country!"
Superboy / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy; superhero
The Man Who Became a Fish
comic story / 6 pages
- Synopsis
- Dr. Clay claims to be able to transform any living matter back into a primordial fish-like state. Two cops come searching his house for escaped convict Bolton. They are made to believe that Bolton swims around as a fish now in Clay’s big aquarium tank.
Man or Wolf?
comic story / 0.5 page
- Reprints
-
in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #104 (November 1960) - in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #207 (December 1967)
-
[no title indexed]
Professor Eureka / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You, in the back of the room...
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series) #149 (June 1960)
-
Sorcery from the Skies!
comic story / 6 pages
- Synopsis
- In a reconstructed New England fishing village strange things are happening. Wagons, boats and statues begin to stir like being moved by magic. Behind all this is a clever newspaperman cashing in on the phenomenon. The town sheriff, however, can call the bluff.
- Reprints
-
in Mighty Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #69 ([Circa February 1969])
-
Madame's Museum of Mystery
text article / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Madame Tussaud
Indexer Notes
These text stories writing credits keep changing their first names.
"John" or "Jack" Marston. "Joe" or "Jack" Mabely. Behind all of those is Jack Miller.
[no title indexed]
Adventures of the Dubble Bubble Kids; Dubble Bubble Gum / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ray Thompson (signed as Ray T.)
- Inks
- Ray Thompson (signed as Ray T.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look - There's Ruffy!
- Genre
- children; adventure
[no title indexed]
Shorty / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A lion! Run, Shorty!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog (DC, 1952 series) #43 (January-February 1959)
- in Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series) #151 (August 1960)
- in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #329 (October 1965)
-
Doom Enters a Beauty Contest!
comic story / 5.67 pages
- Synopsis
- Beautiful, orphaned Amy Leaf comes under custody of her uncle. He forces her to dress as plainly as possible and hide her beauty. Uncle tells her gruesome family history tales and manipulates the world around Amy to play dead when she passes in make-up.
- Reprints
- in Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 series) #42 ([October] 1968)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover story. First-person narrative.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Doom Enters a Beauty Contest!
-
1.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes -
2.
The Hundred-Year Duel!
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
4.
Superboy Says: "Know Your Country!"
Superboy -
5.
The Man Who Became a Fish
-
6.
Man or Wolf?
-
7.
[no title indexed]
Smith Brothers Cough Drops -
8.
["You, in the back of the room..."]
Professor Eureka -
9.
Sorcery from the Skies!
-
10.
Madame's Museum of Mystery
-
11.
["Look - There's Ruffy!"]
Adventures of the Dubble Bubble Kids; Dubble Bubble Gum -
12.
["A lion! Run, Shorty!"]
Shorty -
13.
Doom Enters a Beauty Contest!
-
14.
Now More Than Ever-
-
15.
[no title indexed]
Howdy Doody Color Television Set -
16.
[no title indexed]
Goliath Stamps -
17.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Donald Dale Milne
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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