House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) comic books

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Cover art by Mike Kaluta. "Born Losers," script by John Albano, art by Mike Kaluta; A scientist gives Rapp Rankin a boost of strength, but there are side-effects. "The Secret Hero of Center City" hosted by Abel, art by Alex Toth. Abel's Fables cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. "The Night Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore!", script by Len Wein, pencils by Mike Roy, inks by Mike Peppe (as Mike Pepe); Silas Horn grabs the first train out of town after killing his business partner; Too bad it's the Hades Express. Letter from comics writer Mark Waid. "The Fatal Superstition," art by John Prentice; Burt Roman kills his partner Ed Huggins and blames it on an invented superstition about polka-dot kerchiefs, but the kerchiefs return to extract their own justice. "Happy Birthday, Herman!", art by Adolfo Buylla; Herman kills his wife Martha and buries her in the cellar, but her birthday surprise exposes his crime. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Mike Kaluta. "Beyond His Imagination," script by Bill Meredith, art by Nestor Redondo; An artist seeks inspiration from a Gypsy séance, but when he threatens the old woman, he finds himself face-to-face with her in limbo after her heart gave out and she was his spirit's link back to the world of the living. "Beat the Devil," script by Jack Oleck, pencils by Jack Katz, inks by Tony DeZuniga; A thief robs a church of its poor box and when a priest attempts to stop him, the thief stabs him; That night he dreams the priest visits him and begs him to repent, but the thief claims that while he lives he can always repent at a later time; During a robbery, the police put a bullet into him and he makes his escape into the catacombs where he meets up with Satan. "Goodbye, Nancy," script by John Albano, pencils by Vic Catan and Frank Redondo, inks by Abe Ocampo; The lonely ghost of a dead girl attempts to kill off her little playmate so that she can have his company, but when the boy's father learns from her parents that she has died, he demands that the spirit depart and have no more dealings with his son. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. "Round-Trip Ticket," script by Lore Shoberg, art by Tom Palmer; A man learns astral projection and uses it to cheat on his wife, but she gets even with him by having his body buried since there are no detectable life signs. Cain & Abel cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. "The Man Who Stopped Time!", script by Jack Oleck, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Tony DeZuniga; A man escapes his execution and wanders onto the Alamogordo testing site in 1945; He believes in his own superiority to others so much that when he wishes for time to stop, and sees the unmoving dummies in the test ground houses, he mistakes them for real people and thinks that he has stopped time by the power of his mind. Abel's Fables cartoon page by Lore Shoberg. "Rest in Peace," script by Jack Oleck, art by Alfredo Alcala; A fat plantation owner in Haiti uses drugs to rob a chef of his will and force him to work for him; His obese master hates movement above all things so that when he finally dies of a heart attack, the chef gets his revenge by replacing the sands of an hourglass with his ashes. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Mike Kaluta. "Make a Wish," script by Jack Oleck, art by E. R. Cruz; A lonely boy in an orphanage is taken to a psychiatrist after seeing and playing in a land of elves; The hypnosis removes his ability to enter the fantasy land and he is despondent. "The Loser," script by Jack Oleck, pencils by Quico Redondo, inks by Abe Ocampo; A man gloats over what he thinks is his wife's casket; His nagging wife listens to the ghost for a while and then cannot resist mocking him one final time to burst his bubble in thinking that he had actually pushed her down the stairs and got away with it. Abel's Fables cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. "A Lonely Monstrosity," script by John Albano, art by Nestor Redondo; A malformed building superintendent is targeted for his money by a tenant and her boyfriend, but things don't go as planned when the boyfriend swings an ax at the superintendent and ruptures a steam pipe onto the woman's face. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. "Waiting... Waiting... Waiting...", script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Rico Rival; A gambler who gets involved with a scientific project to recreate Earth history in simulation hopes to view the winner of the next atomic war, but the lab is destroyed before he can learn of the victor. "No Bed of Roses," script by John Albano, art by Jack Sparling; A man frames another man so that he can marry his wife when he is sent to prison; In prison, the convicted man hangs himself and leaves a note that he hopes to reincarnate in order to seek revenge and get his wife back; He reincarnates into a gorilla and escapes the zoo to tear apart the man who married his wife. "The Village on the Edge of Forever," script by Steve Skeates, art by Alex Niño; After the radiation of a future war has destroyed humanity, a sole survivor builds lifelike robots for company; One of the machines, believing itself to be human, seeks out other humans and finds a girl under attack by mutants; He tries to save her and during the fight his arm is damaged and he realizes that he is a robot. Cain & Abel cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Nick Cardy. "Ghosts Don't Bother Me... But...", script by Sheldon Mayer, pencils by Nestor Redondo, inks by Virgilio Redondo; A contract killer makes the mistake of killing a ventriloquist whose ghost sets up the killer to fall out a 10 story window by pretending to be the voice of a mute beauty the killer saw at a party. Abel's Fables cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. "The Dead Man's Doll," script by Bill Riley, art by Alfredo Alcala; Two domestics murder an old man for money that is concealed within an ugly doll, but the doll gets revenge by strangling one of them driving a getaway car so they drive off a cliff. "Lend Me an Ear!", script by Jack Oleck, art by George Tuska; A student pranks a night watchman at the medical school morgue by making him think he is being visited by ghosts; Other students see that he is turning the old man into a nervous wreck so they decide to teach the prankster a lesson. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Jack Sparling. "Vampire," script by Maxene Fabe, art by Gerry Talaoc; A stepfather takes his child actor son to a "vampire cave" in order to dispose of him so that he can claim a two million dollar trust fund, but an actual vampire gets him before he can do so. "Coming Together!", script by Steve Skeates, art by Jim Aparo; A poet reads a poem which contains an incantation in a coffee house which brings three demons together to possess a sculpture; The sculpture menaces a waitress and a big bruiser type who is sweet on her manages to destroy it, but unfortunately for him, she is more interested in the college professor who was tracking the demons and destroys the poet's poem to prevent more carnage. "An Axe to Grind," script by Steve Skeates, art by Alfredo Alcala; A half-wit chops up his brother with an ax after he sees him talking to a girl he fancies; He doesn't believe that his brother was just asking her to be more polite to him, and so buries the pieces of the body out in the field. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Luis Dominguez. "The Witch Doctor's Magic Cloak," script by Michael Fleisher (script) and Russell Carley (art continuity), art by Rudy Nebres; A man steals a magic cloak from a witch doctor that has the power to re-grow limbs that have been torn off from animal attacks; In revenge, the witch doctor wraps the man in the cloak and generates various appendages all sprouting from different locations on his body. "The Case of the Demon Spawn!", script by Gerry Conway (as Gerard Conway), art by Luis Dominguez; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (not the names used by the writer) are targeted by a pack of vampires because of their skepticism of the supernatural; They manage to escape, but not before Holmes is bitten by one of them. Holmes, in turn, puts the bite on Dr. Watson. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Jack Sparling. "Not So Loud--I'm Blind!", script by Doug Moench, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Nick Cardy; A mad scientist creates a slime monster out of a blind beggar who hangs out in the swamp. Abel's Fables cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. "Spawns of Satan," script by Jack Oleck, art by Nestor Redondo; A pack of child vampires decides to leave town before they are connected to the local killings; They bury their coffins upon a hill until they feel that it will be safe for them to return to them; They row a boat out upon frigid water intending to occupy island caves, but one drops something overboard and the kids lose their balance and fall into the water where they enter a torpid state; When spring comes around and the water warms up, the vampires stir and rise up during the night. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Luis Dominguez. "Nobody Hurts My Brother!", script by Arnold Drake, art by Alfredo Alcala; Twins joined at the head are separated and from then on, they take the wounds that the other experiences; One of them takes advantage of the situation to become a mobster, and it works until his simple brother hears a TV broadcast about a rival mobster attempting to wipe him out. Behind the Scenes at the DC Comic World ad. "Remembered Dead," script by George Kashdan, art by Alex Niño; The lonely watchman of the wax museum takes home a figure of Lizzie Borden when the owner tells him that he's going to melt it down due to lack of public interest; The watchman meets a single female neighbor and he becomes convinced that the statue is jealous. "Every Man My Killer!", script by George Kashdan, pencils by Nardo Cruz, inks by E. R. Cruz; A man who can't remember his name is being hunted and does not understand what he has done to make everyone he encounters want to kill him; When he is destroyed at the end of the story it is revealed that he is a robot who has gone rogue and then lost its memory. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Cover art by Luis Dominguez. "An Eye for an Eye," script by Jack Oleck, art by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua); A Duke makes a bargain with a witch who demands a human sacrifice as payment in order to gain revenge against a hated rival after the Duke's wife leaves him; The witch summons demons in order to aid the Duke's men and they take the rival and a young boy whom the Duke assumes is the child his ex-wife gave the man when she died in childbirth. "Don't Cry for Uncle Malcolm," script by Gerry Boudreau, art by Alex Niño; A man's uncle dies and he and his sister drive up to attend the funeral, but the locals are hostile and refuse to give direction; When they finally locate the house, they realize that the uncle was a voodoo practitioner who used his powers to keep the locals in thrall. 2 Abel's Fables cartoon pages by Sergio Aragonés. "Revenge for the Deadly Dummy!", script by Steve Skeates, art by Alfredo Alcala; A wooden dummy picks itself up and heads out of the garbage dump seeking revenge on its master for tossing him aside after twelve years of faithful service so he could become a standup comedian. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Frank Robbins. "A Fugitive Apparition," script by John Albano, art by Leandro Sesarego; A cranky ghost in an old house makes friends with a young boy until the kid meets a girl and loses interest in the ghost. "A Connecticut Ice Cream Man in King Arthur's Court," script by Michael Fleisher and Russ Carley (script continuity), art by Alex Toth; An ice cream man finds himself transported to King Arthur's court by a thick fog and gets in Arthur's good graces by offering him ice cream; It doesn't take long before he thinks of dumping rat poison into the ice cream to polish off Arthur and his nobles and take over; Merlin overhears him scheming and goes to the king with the rat poison as proof; The king is in a quandary as he wishes to execute the ice cream man for treason but only he can provide ice cream to the banquet Arthur has promised his nobles. Letter from comics writer and editor Paul Levitz. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Luis Dominguez. "Last of the Frankensteins," script by Jack Oleck, art by Ernie Chan; The last of the Frankensteins, Edmund Frankenstein, turns out to be a mechanical construct; The irony of the story turns out that he is destroyed by an angry mob of peasants without knowing that he is in fact a robot. "Never Rouse a Vampire!", script by George Kashdan, art by Jay Albister; A carnival barker gets the idea that he can drum up more business if he exhibits a vampire so he has one of his showgirls chat up a creepy-looking carnival drifter into agreeing to play the part; The dupe thinks the showgirl likes him and she tells him that the barker is saving up the money for the two of them to get married. "Make Believe," script by Jack Oleck, art by Ruben Yandoc (as Rubeny); A crippled boy makes a centaur friend on a Greek isle and tells his nurse and father about their adventures; At first the adults are angry that they believe the child is lying to them about not needing his crutches in the magic circle, but after he persists in his tales, the father contacts a psychologist who recommends that the boy be taken from the isle. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Last 20-cent cover price. Cover art by Luis Dominguez. "The Haunter and the Haunted," script by David Michelinie, art by Quico Redondo; A nine year old boy is dared by his older brother to stay overnight in a supposedly haunted house and his brother and friend to try scare him away; They succeed, but when they leave through the cellar and go home, the younger boy is nowhere to be found; Eventually, they find him sitting on the porch of the haunted house. "The Long Run!", script by Steve Skeates, art by Lee Marrs. "On Borrowed Time," script by Jack Oleck, art by Alex Nino; A thief steals a battery powered watch which can transport a person one week into the future by setting it one minute forward; He uses the watch to commit crimes until he gets the idea to steal a large number of diamonds and set the watch five years into the future so that he can fence them without difficulty. "Weird Wanda," script by David Michelinie, art by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua); The business partner of a skating rink owner attempts to get out of a gambling debt by embezzling money but is caught by the other partner; The thief kills him and disposes of the body; The killer leaves a note for the wife saying that her husband has run off with another woman and the wife becomes mentally unbalanced. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Ernie Chan. "The Harder They Fall," script by Carl Wessler, art by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua); A bum dreams that he is a ruthless businessman on the way to a senate seat when he is betrayed by the beautiful girl he is in love with; He is relived that his recurring falling dreams are no longer possible with the realization that at Skid Row, he's got nowhere further to fall. Minerva Menace! Hostess snack cakes ad featuring Shazam! "The Magic Elixir," script by George Kashdan, art by Ricardo Villamonte; A group of vampires con a con man who sells snake oil that they've got something better; They lead the man to a corpse and pour some of their elixir into him; He gets up and the con man offers to cut the vampires in on the profit. "Final Exam" one-page Abel's Fables story, script and art by John Albano; An old man disintegrates when the doctor tests his reflexes by tapping his knee. "Suit of Lights," script by Steve Clement (plot) and Robert Kanigher, art by Ruben Yandoc. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Bill Draut. "Where Dreams Are Born," script by Jack Oleck, art by Frank Redondo; A boy who can enter dreams based on what he reads immediately before he falls asleep and return with the material wealth that he finds in these places is tormented by his greedy foster parents who demand that he take them with him into his dreams so that they can fill up suitcases full of loot; The woman wants to beat the kid into acquiescing but the man tries to cozy up to him for a week first; The boy knows that they are evil doers so he denies being able to enter dreams. "Night Watchman," script by George Kashdan, art by Leopoldo Duranona; A vampire takes a job as a night watchman with the condition that no one enter the premises at night; When his boss becomes too curious for his own good, he becomes just another victim and the vampire resigns himself to looking for another job. "Snake Bite!", script by Steve Clement, art by Romy Gamboa; An escaped convict runs into a tribe of tiny Indians and dies when a rattlesnake bites him while harassing the Indians. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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Last 25-cent cover price. Cover art by Ernie Chan. "Reprise: The Patchwork Man," script by Gerry Conway, art by Nestor Redondo; Gregori Arcane survived a fall and found himself hiding in a department store; He startled two employees opening up and security fired a shot that grazed his head, knocking him out; The security men turned him over to the police who were visited by a Dr. Chomes who demanded that they release his "patient" into his custody. Dr. Chomes conducted some painful experiments upon the Patchwork Man and the pain caused him to break his restraints and brush past Dr. Chomes and his assistant; Outside, a good Samaritan cab driver picked him up and drove him away from his tormenters; Dr. Chomes took down the license plate number and told his assistant they would acquire the man's address in the morning. The Cup Cake Caper Hostess Cup Cakes ad featuring Shazam! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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First 30-cent cover price. Cover art by Leopoldo Duranona. "You Can't Beat the Devil!", script by Bill Finger, art by E. R. Cruz; A man sells his soul to a demon named Caligula when the demon tells him as Roman Emperor he was so evil that Satan made him a demon to recruit other damned souls; The man thinks he can have fun for a year getting back at people and then when he's judged by Satan, he'll be made a demon like Caligula and can go on tormenting people; After the year, Caligula shows up again and claims his soul; The man expects his wife to testify that he was cruel since he beat her every day, but she lies and tells Satan's court that he was kind and loving. Abel's Fables cartoon, script by Don Edwing, art by Dave Manak. "Exit Laughing," script by Jack Oleck, pencils by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua), inks by Bill Draut; A man who was the victim of a practical joke in his college days shows up at the reunion twenty years later and the practical joker howls with laughter that he has been scared for twenty years because of when he dressed up as a ghost to frighten the man; The victim withdraws a knife and stabs the practical joker to death much to the shock of his companion. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.30.

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Cover pencils by Jack Sparling, inks by Vince Colletta. The Muse Hostess snack cakes ad featuring Batman. "Witch Blood," script by Jack Oleck, pencils by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua), inks by Bill Draut; A baron burns a woman as a witch because he wishes to annex her land. He gives her orphan boy to a vassal of his; When the man discovers that his adopted son can shape-shift he realizes that his mother really was a witch; The boy learns that the baron had burned his mother so he changes into a hawk and claws the baron's eyes. "The Experiment," art by Vicente Alcazar; This is a story with no text that looks like it is telling the story of Frankenstein, except that the last panel features Pinocchio. Abel's Fables cartoon, script by Don Edwing, art by Dave Manak. "The Evil Side," script by Steve Skeates, art by Ruben Yandoc (as Rubeny); A boy sorcerer resents his uncle for attempting to discourage him from following his evil inclinations and when the man's brother visits and mentions the powerful items kept in the attic, the boy waits until his uncle has gone to sleep before exploring the attic; He finds a magic carpet and a spell book that he uses to summon a demon so that his uncle will be killed and he'll be free of his smothering influence. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.30.

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Cover pencils by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua), inks by Vince Colletta. "The Man with Death on His Shoulders," script by Cary Bates, pencils by Mike Vosburg, inks by Vince Colletta; The ghost of a body builder gives a weak man power so that he can humiliate the boyfriends of the girls that previously rejected him; One day he accidentally kills a man walking with a beautiful girl and takes her to a cave while he figures out what to do with the body; The cave begins to collapse and he uses his strength to hold it up while the girl wanders out to the road. "The Vampire of Broadway," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Abe Ocampo; A sign painter working on an advertisement for a Broadway show about a vampire brings his creation to life when he falls in love with the girl; The painting kills him and two police officers before the second police officer, who suspects the painting to be the culprit, fires silver bullets into it and ends its menace. "Justice for All Includes Children" #9 public service announcement featuring Superman. "Bide Your Time," script by Steve Skeates, pencils by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua), inks by Vince Colletta; A man becomes the victim of a beautiful woman who claims to be a medium for an old man, but she is actually his lover and his spirit has been transferred into the body of an old man through a crystal ball. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.30.

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Last 30-cent cover price. Cover art by Luis Dominguez. "The Shark-Man Cometh!", script by Michael Fleisher and Russell Carley (as Russ Carley), art by E. R. Cruz; After a carnival barker's stunt man is "accidentally" killed for demanding more money for battling sharks, a wereshark shows up to take his place; The carnival barker's wife is turned on by him, so she goes out for a night swim with him; This enrages the carnival barker, so he hits her and takes a spear gun out to the pool. "The Operation Was Successful... But –", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Fred Carrillo; A jealous surgeon stabs an older physician and his attractive nurse to death and disposes of the bodies; He gets in a car accident and when he revives he finds himself a patient in surgery; He's shocked to discover that the medics are the two people he killed. Abel's Fables cartoon, script by Don Edwing, art by Dave Manak. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.30.

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First 35-cent cover price. Cover price by Gray Morrow. "Snow Ghost," script by Bill Reilly (Murray Boltinoff), art by Bill Draut; A man kills his partner for gold and the dead man's ghost manipulates him into returning to the ghost's grandchildren where he expires just outside the cabin and is buried beneath the snow; The following day the kids find some personal effects of their grandfather outside as well as the gold. "Snake's Alive!", script by Michael J. Pellowski (idea) and E. Nelson Bridwell, art by Buddy Gernale; A man and a woman arrive on an island chain where the natives plan to sacrifice her to the snake god; The man is impatient to leave, but since the natives are pampering the woman before they sacrifice her, she doesn't want to go; The man picks up her body to show the terrible accident to the yacht crew and then they will leave, but the natives are enraged and they pursue the man. #7 Curt Swan DC Profiles bio by Mike Gold. Statement of ownership: Total No. Copies Printed Nearest To Filling Date (October 1, 1976): 301,574. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover price by Gray Morrow. Introductory page with Abel, script by Paul Levitz, art by Romeo Tanghal. "A Gift of Evil," script by Jack Oleck, pencils by Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua), inks by Bill Draut; A man whose village is being destroyed by plague seeks a bargain with Satan and is answered by space aliens who give him their eggs in the form of gold cubes; The man hires agents to distribute the eggs throughout the world in order to buy medicine and supplies in an effort to relieve the suffering of his village. Abel's Fables one-page story, script by Don Edwing, art by Dave Manak. "The See-Through Thief!", script by David Michelinie and Russ Carley, art by Alex Nino; A boy vandalizes a witch's garden and she places a curse upon him that makes him invisible at random times for the rest of his life; He has difficulties proving to employers that he is reliable and so finally gets a job as a night watchman, where if he fades out, no one notices; He starts thinking that maybe he can use the curse to steal the payroll from the safe, so he waits until the curse kicks in and then blows the safe; It looks like he's going to be able to just walk out with the money but he starts to fade in and the police have been alerted. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover price by Gray Morrow. Introductory page with Abel, script by Paul Levitz, art by Michael Golden. "Roman Holiday," script by George Kashdan, art by Ernie Chan; A man answers an ad to go on a Roman holiday and ends up being thrown to the lions. #19 Julius Schwartz DC Profiles bio. "Sorcerer's Apprentice," script by Jack Oleck, pencils by Steve Ditko, inks by Ernie Chan; The sorcerer's apprentice is ambitious and wants to wed the princess; The princess rebuffs him as it is not possible for the princess to marry a commoner; The apprentice gets the king to allow him along on his campaign and actually proves decisive in gaining the victory; When the apprentice again asks the king to marry his daughter, he is once more rebuffed, so he slays the king and usurps the throne; When he returns from the campaign he has his master tossed in the dungeon until he can arrange the marriage ceremony. Letter from comics writer and editor Kevin J. Dooley. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover price by Michael Wm. Kaluta. Introductory page with Abel, script by Paul Levitz, art by Michael Golden. "The Rain Dance," script by Paul Levitz (plot) and J. Cheever Loophole, art by Bill Draut; Settlers kidnap an Indian medicine man and force him to do a rain dance at gunpoint; The sky rains blood which clots into the form of a vampire bat; The bat kills most of the settlers until they try to set fire to it by burning the crops. "The Evil One," script by Jack Oleck, art by Ricardo Villamonte; A boy's uncle kills his father and hides the body; The boy suspects him but the police tell him that they can't arrest the uncle without a body; The years go by and the boy becomes angry and bitter living with his abusive uncle until he spots an old woman that the kids used to believe was a witch; He asks her if she can summon Satan but she gives him a book of spells and tells him to try it himself if he wants to because she doesn't believe in magic; He does attempt to summon Satan and it works; He offers Satan his soul in exchange for getting revenge on his uncle. #23 Bob Layton DC Profiles bio. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover art by Jim Starlin. Batman and Sable Lady Hostess snack cakes ad. "A God by Any Other Name," script by Gerry Conway, art by Gerry Talaoc; At the House of Secrets, The Phantom Stranger tells Abel how exorcists Father John Christian and Rabbi Samuel Shulman used to exorcise possessed machines; Dr. 13 arrives, and blames such stories on mass hysteria; But when machines all over the world run amok due to a demonic computer, it is up to The Stranger to stop it. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.