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27December 1959
$0.10

House of Secrets #27

DC · December 1959 · on sale 1959-10-22

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Series
House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series)
Issue
#27
Publication date
December 1959
Key date
1959-12-00
On-sale date
1959-10-22
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 Secret of the Fossil Egg!cover1pencils: Dick Dillin; inks: Sheldon Moldoff; letters: Ira SchnappElsa Magusson, Mark Merlin
2The Killer from Spacecomic story7.67pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Howard Purcell; letters: Stan Starkman
3Your Passport to Amazing Adventures!promo (ad from the publisher)0.33
5The Atom: Servant of Manpublic service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Tommy Nicolosi; letters: Ira Schnapp
6The Riddle of Hazard Isle!comic story7.67pencils: Bill Ely; inks: Bill ElyBob Southey; Rolfe Andrews; Sam Andrews
7Hawk-A-A-A!promo (ad from the publisher)0.33pencils: Dick Dillin; inks: Charles Cuidera; letters: Ira Schnapp
10The Steel Impostortext story1letters: typeset
11-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry BoltinoffPeter Puptent
12The Secret of the Fossil Eggcomic story8.67pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort Meskin; letters: Stan StarkmanElsa Magusson, Mark Merlin
13World's Finest Comics; Superman and Batman with Robinpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Stan Kaye; letters: Ira Schnapp

Plus 7 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

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