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House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) comic books 1969-1971

  • Issue #81
    House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) 81
    • 1.5" Spine split from bottom.
    • Water damage. Centerfold detached at one staple.
    • Water damage. Centerfold detached at one staple. Staple rust.
    • 3" Cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #1074448009
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • Restoration. Color touch. Water damage.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Centerfold detached at one staple. Water damage.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    First 15-cent cover. First appearance of Abel. Abel acts as a storyteller and host of the series, as well as the caretaker of the House of Secrets. Cover art by Neal Adams. "Don't Move It!", script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Jerry Grandenetti, inks by George Roussos; This story provides the background of the House of Secrets, who built it and its history, and leads into the next story which talks about Abel's taking possession of it. "House of Secrets," art by Bill Draut; A realty agent helps Abel move into the House of Secrets where Abel bumps into Cain; When Cain asks Abel who he is talking to, Abel indicates the realty agent who dissipates into a spirit which merges into the House of Secrets. "Burn This House!" text story. "Aaron Philips' Photo Finish!", script by Gerry Conway, art by Jack Sparling; Abel tells Cain a story about a photographer who takes blackmail photos being sent out to photograph the House of Secrets, but the house swallows him up, leaving only a photograph of the man's shocked expression as the only evidence he was ever inside. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    $218 HOUSE OF SECRETS #81 1969 DC COMICS SILVER AGE HORROR 1st APP ABEL! ADAMS COVER
    $221 House Of Secrets 81 CGC 7.0 1st Abel Classic Neal Adams Cover Horror Rare
    2 days left Auction HOUSE OF SECRETS #81 [1969 GD+] 1ST ABEL DC COMICS

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  • Issue #82
    House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) 82

    Cover art by Neal Adams. "Realler Than Real," inks by Vince Colletta; An obnoxious film producer gets his just rewards when he is slain by an arrow shot from a screening room projection screen. "His Last Resting Place!" text story. "Sudden Madness," inks by Dick Giordano; Aliens disperse puzzle boxes across Earth which produce violent psychosis in those who attempt to solve them so they can take over easily. "The Little Old Winemaker," art by Jack Sparling; A man builds a water-tight wine cellar while plotting to kill his nephew, and the nephew obliges by smashing open the wine casks obsessed with the idea the man has killed his wife and hidden her body inside one of them. "The One and Only, Fully Guaranteed, Super-Permanent, 100%?", script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Neal Adams; Henpecked Stanley Landman mail-orders the answer to his problems. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    $25 DC House Of Secrets #82 1969 6.0 Fine OW/W pages. Neal Adams Cover

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  • Issue #85
    House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) 85

    Cover art by Neal Adams. "People Who Live in Glass Houses," script by Len Wein, art by Don Heck; A sorcerer acquires a magic mirror that he can enter once a year, and standing before it on the inside, it absorbs a year's worth of time; The man is 100 years ago, but possessed of the body of a younger man; Three boys come across the mirror and stumble into it, interrupting him; He threatens to lock them away inside the mirror so that they can tell no one his secret, but one of the boys snatches his magic stone and they escape into the physical world. "Reggie Rabbit, Heathcliffe Hog, Archibald Aardvark, J. Benson Babboon and Bertram, the Dancing Frog" 2-page story, script by Len Wein, art by Ralph Reese. Letters section includes a humorous letter to editor Dick Giordano purportedly by Neal Adams. "House of Wacks" one-page story, script and art by John Costanza. "Second Choice," script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Neal Adams; Abel tells a story with two endings about a hero who travels to Stonehenge to battle an evil wizard powered with a star gem; When he arrives at Stonehenge a warlock intercepts him and the hero explains what he is doing there and the warlock offers to battle the evil wizard with spells; The hero offers the warlock his sword and stands on the sidelines as the warlock defeats the evil wizard; Abel wonders what would have happened if the hero had used his sword against the evil wizard and tells this version of the story; The hero confronts the wizard but the wizard uses a spell to dissolve his sword. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    $95 HOUSE OF SECRETS 85 CGC 7.0 Classic NEAL ADAMS COVER Horror New Case

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  • Issue #87
    House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) 87
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    Cover art by Neal Adams. "Death Has Marble Lips!", script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano; A sculptor offers to barter his soul to Satan if his latest beautiful creation can take the form of a living woman, and it happens, but she doesn't know that her kiss is cursed and it turns the artist to stone. "The Man," script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito; A woman falls in love with a man who turns out to be a robot. "The Coming of Ghaglan," script by Raymond Marais, art by Mike Kaluta; Archaeologists find an Egyptian scroll that can be used to raise the dead to wipe out humanity, but they lose it to someone who has been seeking it for quite a long time. Letter from writer Alan Brennert. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    $8 House of Secrets No. 87 Aug. - Sept. 1970 DC GD
    $35 House of Secrets (1956) #87 FN- (5.5) Neal Adams Cover
    $109 HOUSE OF SECRETS 87 CGC 7.0 Classic NEAL ADAMS COVER Horror Robot Cover

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  • Issue #89
    House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) 89

    Cover art by Gray Morrow. "Where Dead Men Walk!", art by Gray Morrow; Philip and Anne inherit the Hastings Castle, and plan to move there; But the place seems haunted, and Jamieson helps them escape and burn down the Castle--or so it seems. "A Taste of Dark Fire!", script by Gerry Conway, art by Don Heck; A Christian and Jew battle the forces of evil together as they fear that an acquaintance has been possessed by the Devil; The Christian's housekeeper attempts to sow distrust for the Jew, but he isn't having any of it; She convinces him to allow her to accompany the two of them to the suspected man's house, but no further; They give her instructions to seek the police if they don't return in an hour and then enter the house; Once inside, the encounter the man who has indeed become a devil worshiper and begin a mystic battle. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    $149 House of Secrets #89 ⭐ CGC 8.0 ⭐ GGA Bronze Age Horror DC Comic 1970

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  • Issue #91
    House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) 91

    Cover art by Neal Adams. "The Eagle's Talon!", pencils by Jerry Grandenetti, inks by Wally Wood; A dictator cuts the claw-like hand off a revolutionary who lays a curse on him that he will die in a cage; The dictator orders his guards to kill all the eagles in the land but dies anyway when he becomes trapped in his villa's elevator. "Please, Don't Cry, Johnny!", art by Sam Glanzman; A child born bald acts out in school so his teacher takes him home one day in order to speak with his father who appears to be Humpty Dumpty. "There Are Two of Me...and One Must Die!", art by Murphy Anderson; Marshall Perkins splits into two copies of himself--one good, one evil; It is up to his son to determine which is which. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    $12 The House of Secrets #91 DC Comics Vintage May 1971 VG
    $14 House of Secrets No. 91 April-May 1971 VG
    $20 HOUSE OF SECRETS 91 4.0 DC 1971 LADY IN A WHITE DRESS TV
    $25 DC THE HOUSE OF SECRETS No. 91 (1971) Adams Cover! VG/FN
    2 days left Auction 1971 HOUSE OF SECRETS #91 - NEAL ADAMS COVER / WALLY WOOD - DC BRONZE AGE HORROR

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  • Issue #92
    House of Secrets (1956 1st Series) 92
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: Significant scuff(s) inner well
    • Label #0720956001
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. "Swamp Thing," script by Len Wein, art by Berni Wrightson; Sometime in the last century, Alex Olsen and Damien Ridge had been best friends; However, they both vied for the affections of a woman named Linda. Linda eventually married Alex and Damien had to endure his heartache in the form of the supportive friend; But his desire for Linda overrode the bonds of friendship and he conspired to eliminate Alex; He sabotaged the equipment in Alex's lab causing an explosion that killed him; Keeping the knowledge hidden from Linda, Damien buried Alex's body in the swamp; Damien eventually married the widow Olsen and they lived together in an old Victorian plantation house; But Linda never recovered from Alex's death; As months passed, Damien began to suspect that Linda might soon learn the truth, so he prepared to kill her; But Alex had been resurrected as a swamp thing and broke into the house and killed Damien. "After I Die!", script by Jack Kirby and Mark Evanier, art by Bill Draut; A wealthy man named Maxwell James is obsessed with what happens after death; his obsession only grows stronger when he arrives at his wife's deathbed, and realizes that she sees something utterly horrifying in her final moments. "It's Better to Give," script by Mary Skrenes (as "Virgil North"), pencils by Alan Weiss, inks by Tony DeZuniga; A homeless man encounters a crying baby warlock in the town dump who is upset that he has broken his balloon. "Trick or Treat" two-page story, art by Dick Dillin. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    $584 House of Secrets #92 CBCS 1.0 OW/W Pages DC 1971
    $1,300 House of Secrets #92 CGC 5.0 1st Appearance Of Swamp Thing Beautiful DC Comic!
    $1,490 HOUSE OF SECRETS #92 CGC 5.5 1st App Swamp Thing -NEW CGC Case- NIce Registrat
    $1,490 HOUSE OF SECRETS #92 CGC 5.5 1st App Swamp Thing -NEW CGC Case- EXCEL Cover Ap
    $4,400 House of Secrets #92 (DC Comics, 1971) CBCS 8.5 1st appearance of Swamp Thing
    4 days left Auction HOUSE OF SECRETS #92 5.5 1ST SWAMP THING mid grade

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