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97April 1960
$0.10

House of Mystery #97

DC · April 1960 · on sale 1960-02-02

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Identification plate

Series
House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series)
Issue
#97
Publication date
April 1960
Key date
1960-04-00
On-sale date
1960-02-02
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 Moon Monster!cover1pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily; letters: Ira Schnapp
2The Alien Who Changed Historycomic story8.67pencils: Nick Cardy; inks: Nick Cardy
3Your Amazing Passport to Adventures!promo (ad from the publisher)0.33
4Aloha... Hawaii!public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily; letters: Ira SchnappSenator Hiram L. Fong; Senator Oren E. Long; Rep. Daniel K. Inouye
5The Man Who Conquered Time!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Joe Kubert; letters: Ira Schnapp
6-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry BoltinoffDr. Floogle
7The Captive Wizardcomic story8pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Howard Purcell
8Satellite Statistics!comic story0.5script: Julius Schwartz; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Tom Nicolosi; letters: Milt Snapinn
10Sorcery from the Starstext story1letters: typeset
11The Moon Monstercomic story8pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard BailyMartin Kell; Dr. Gaines; Karaba; Chief Sutaya (flashback)

Plus 5.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

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