Issue Details

Issue	#4
Published	July - September 1969
Cover Price	0.25
Pages	68
Editing	Joe Orlando
Notes	First appearance of Abel is in this issue. Abel first appeared in House of Secrets #81 which has a date of August/September of 1969, one month after this issue.

Cover Details

Pencils	Neal Adams
Inks	Neal Adams
Notes	First appearance of Abel is in this issue. Abel first appeared in House of Secrets #81 which has a date of August/September of 1969, one month after this issue.

5 page story "13 Shock-Ending Stories 13"

Script	Mark Hannerfeld
Pencils	Bill Draut
Inks	Bill Draut
Notes	framing sequence

3 page story "Ghost Writer"

Pencils	Ed Smalle
Inks	Ed Smalle
Notes	Reprint information from James Zanotto via the GCD Errors list, January 2010.
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #9 (December 1952) [with splash panel removed]

5 page story "The Magic Hammer"

Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Jack Kirby
Notes	orig title: "The Magic Stick"
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #68 (November 1957)

3 page story "A Piece of Rope"

Reprinted

from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #5 (August 1952)

3 page story "Last Mile Martin"

Pencils	Jerry Grandenetti
Inks	Ray Burnley
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #15 (December 1952)

6 page story "The Dream Lamp"

Pencils	Leonard Starr
Inks	Leonard Starr
Reprinted	from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #1 (February-March 1956)

1 page story "Door of No Return"

Pencils	George Roussos
Inks	George Roussos
Reprinted	from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #62 (September-October 1963)

5 page story "Beware after Dark"

Pencils	Carmine Infantino
Inks	Joe Giella
Reprinted	from Sensation Mystery (DC, 1952 series) #114 (March-April 1953)

1 page story "The Tree Man of Tanganyika"

Pencils	Sheldon Moldoff
Inks	Sheldon Moldoff
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #30 (September 1954)

1 page story "Written in the Sands"

Pencils	George Papp
Inks	George Papp
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #26 (May 1954)

3 page story "The Secret of Salzo the Great"

Pencils	John Prentice
Inks	John Prentice
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #2 (February-March 1952)

1 page story "The Secret Locked in the Ice"

Pencils	Gene Colan
Inks	Gene Colan
Reprinted	from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #63 (November-December 1963)

5 page story "The Bullet Man"

Pencils	Bernard Baily
Inks	Bernard Baily
Reprinted	from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #17 (September 1957)

6 page story "The Strange Faces of Death"

Pencils	Ruben Moreira
Inks	Ruben Moreira
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #19 (October 1953)