House of Mystery #5 (1952) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	I Was a Witch!	cover	1	pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben Moreira; letters: Ira Schnapp
1	Superman Says: "It's Smart to Check-- and Doublecheck!"	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer
2	The Man with the Strangler Hands!	comic story	7.67	pencils: Curt Swan
5	The Caravan of Miracles!	comic story	7.67	pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben Moreira
6	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
8	Double Mourning!	comic story	0.5
9	The Man Who Was Death!	comic story	5.67	pencils: Jim Mooney	Fred Jones; Helen Jones; Ted Jones
10	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
11	Message to Parents	public service announcement	0.5	letters: typeset
13	A Piece of Rope!	comic story	4
14	Dead or Alive?	comic story	1		Robert Louis Stevenson
15	She Wrote What Ghosts Dictated	text article	2	script: Jack E. Miller
16	I Was a Witch!	comic story	7.67	pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: George Klein
17	Now Published Every Month!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
18	Two More Thrilling Magazines for Mystery Fans!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 3.33 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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