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45December 1955
$0.10

House of Mystery #45

DC · December 1955 · on sale 1955-10-02

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Series
House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series)
Issue
#45
Publication date
December 1955
Key date
1955-12-00
On-sale date
1955-10-02
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Magic Kite!cover1pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; letters: Ira Schnapp
2The Illusions of Dambro!comic story6pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben Moreira
4Shuddery Shadowscomic story1script: Mort Drucker; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker
5The Four Forbidden Secrets!comic story6
7-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
8The Phantom with the Funny Facecomic story6pencils: Bill Ely; inks: Bill Ely
9Phantoms of the Old Westtext article2script: Jeb Mallon
10-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
11The Magic Kitecomic story6
13How a Nation Is Born - Your United Nations at Workpublic service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer

Plus 5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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