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

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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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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.

Cover art by Gray Morrow. "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of," script by Marv Wolfman, art by Alex Toth; A man must choose between living in this world or a dream world. "Bigger Than a Breadbox, inks by Frank Giacoia. "Once Upon a Time in a Mystery Book" article. "The House of Endless Years," script by Gerry Conway (as Gerard Conway), art by Bill Draut; Two girls, Judy and Peggy, in search of Peggy's lost brother Neal, enter an old house where lives an old hag who warns them to leave for their own good; They don't and find out that the evil house drains the life from those in it by leeching on their fear of death, condemning them to an endless eternity. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Neal Adams. "If I Had But World Enough and Time," script by Len Wein, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Mike Peppe; Marvin literally lives through his television shows. "Double or Nothing," script by Marv Wolfman, art by Sid Greene; Harvey Franklyn has a system to beat Clifford King at every type of gambling game. "The Unbelievable! The Unexplained!", script by Steve Skeates, pencils by Jack Sparling, inks by Jack Abel; A woman wants to put her catatonic uncle into a home to claim his estate until she falls victim to the same malady. "If I Should Die Before I Wake," script by Len Wein, art by Jack Sparling; A man tries to run away from his dreams, but can't stay awake. 2-page epilogue with Abel, script by Gerry Conway, art by Bill Draut. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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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.

Cover art by Neal Adams. "Strain," script by Steve Skeates, art by George Tuska; A man is drawn to his death by piano music played by the wife he killed. "The Golden Tower of the Sun" text story by Gerry Conway, art by Gray Morrow; A band member takes revenge on the rest of the band after they kill him to get him out of the group. "The Ballad of Little Joe," script by Gerry Conway, art by Bill Draut (as Big Bad Bill); A beloved ventriloquist's dummy is turned into a real boy by aliens to act as their spy on Earth, but he reveals their plans to his master then sacrifices himself to save the old man. 2-page The Day After Doomsday story, art by Jack Sparling; Adam and Gertrude meet in the ruins of New York City. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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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.

Painted cover art by Neal Adams. "The Morning Ghost," script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Frank Giacoia; A man meets a woman on the run from the ghosts of her dead family who want her to join them; He tries to convince her there are no ghosts by bringing her back to the house where they died in a fire, but she reveals to him that there were no survivors and she too is a ghost. "Eyesore!", script by Gerry Conway, art by Bill Draut (as Wild Bill); A blind store owner begins to suspect an acquaintance of wanting to kill him and take over the business, so when the man tells him that he's got something for him in the closet, the blind man sneaks up behind him and kills him by striking him with his cane; The blind man hears sounds like something moving and thinks perhaps the man isn't dead and is coming for revenge. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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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.

Cover art by Neal Adams. "The Distant Dome," script by Steve Skeates, art by George Tuska; In the future, the remaining humans that live on Earth survive under domes due to pollution. "The Symbionts," script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Neal Adams; A man is left on a prison planet for ten years and when his sentence is up the computer that was assigned to keep him alive tells him it loves him and doesn't want to let him go; Since the men who have come to pick him up have brought a female prisoner to leave behind, the computer absorbs the man and adopts his personality to care for the woman. "Jedediah," script by Mike Friedrich, art by Gray Morrow; A prophet of God feels the call to preach on a planet that has no fear of death, but when he arrives he is told no one will listen to him since they discovered a substance they call Char-ite which they mine; The prophet wishes to see the mines and is warned they are dangerous, but he disregards the warning; When he enters the mine, a blast is set off and he is killed, but finds himself conversing with one of the locals. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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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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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.

Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. "Lonely in Death!", script by Steve Skeates, art by Jim Aparo; At first circumstances in an old house lead a young woman to believe her recently deceased mother is attempting to kill her in order to have company in the afterlife, but then the resentful brother is revealed as the cause of the near fatal mishaps; He attempts to stab his sister with a spear, but falls out a window to his death when startled by something the woman takes to be her mother's ghost protecting her, not attempting to kill her as she mistakenly previously believed. Abel's Fables from the House of Secrets cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. "The Curse of the Cat's Cradle," art by Alex Toth; A Guatemalan plantation manager and his underling discover a giant creature trapped inside a patch of quicksand; The giant spells out a message for them by way of a cat's cradle of vines. "Nightmare," art by Jack Abel. "The Beast from the Box," art by Nick Cardy. Abel's Fables cartoon page by Lore Shoberg. "Never Kill a Witch's Son!", script by John Albano, art by Tony DeZuniga; Ken Rawson's niece and her husband kill Rawson, but Rawson's mother takes her revenge. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. "The Man with My Face," art by Jack Sparling; A gambler agrees to switch bodies with a mysterious stranger in exchange for a lucky silver dollar which allows him to never lose a bet. "Hyde--and Go Seek!", script by Len Wein, art by Tony DeZuniga; A henpecked police officer is shocked to find out his best friend was searching for a cure for drug addiction and developed a serum that transformed him into a strangler that choose his victims among girls who reminded him of his wife who left him. "The Day Nobody Died," art by George Roussos; A man is certain no one will die today because he is Death and it's his day off. "Track of the Invisible Beast," art by Alex Toth. Abel's Fables cartoon page by Sergio Aragones. "A Bottle of Incense.. A Whiff of the Past!", script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Alan Weiss, inks by Bernie Wrightson and Alan Weiss; An old woman who lost a man she fancied in an auto accident fifty years ago uses an occult ritual to return him to her, but he returns as a hungry zombie who devours her. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.