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81December 1958
$0.10

House of Mystery #81

DC · December 1958 · on sale 1958-10-02

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Series
House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series)
Issue
#81
Publication date
December 1958
Key date
1958-12-00
On-sale date
1958-10-02
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Menace of the Alien Test Tubes!cover1pencils: Bill Ely; inks: Bill Ely; letters: Ira Schnapp
2The Man Who Made Utopiacomic story5.67pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Howard PurcellMayor (unnamed); Mr. T. Erutuf
5Sharing -- the United Nations Way!public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: George Roussos; inks: George Roussos; letters: Gaspar Saladino
6The Prisoners of the Paintscomic story5.67pencils: George Roussos; inks: George Roussos
8This Famous Symbol Is Your Guaranteepromo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Gil Kane, Bob Brown; inks: Gil Kane, Bob Brown; letters: Ira Schnapp
9The Boy with the Super Powers!comic story5.67pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: George RoussosBilly; Fred; Ann
11City of Hallucinationstext story1letters: typeset
12The Menace of the Alien Test Tubes!comic story7.67pencils: Bill Ely; inks: Bill ElyBurke; Watkins; Colonel Stryker
13-promo (ad from the publisher)0.33

Plus 6.99 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

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