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28July 1954
$0.10

House of Mystery #28

DC · July 1954 · on sale 1954-05-05

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Identification plate

Series
House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series)
Issue
#28
Publication date
July 1954
Key date
1954-07-00
On-sale date
1954-05-05
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Clock Strikes Deathcover1pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben Moreira; letters: Ira Schnapp
1Superboy Says: "Don't Give Fire a Place to Start!"public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
2The Wings of Mr. Milo!comic story6pencils: Curt Swan
5Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.5letters: typeset
6The Spider Man!comic story6pencils: Ed Smalle; inks: Ed Smalle
8Saved by the Deadcomic story1
9The Secret Fear of Harvey Hall!comic story5.67pencils: Nick Cardy; inks: Nick Cardy
11Wolf Mantext story2script: Jack E. Miller
13The Clock Strikes Death!comic story6pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben MoreiraMark Allison; Arthur Allison; Ben; Andrew Gregg; Will Farragut; Chief Harris; Tom Farragut

Plus 6.83 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

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