Issue | #137 |
Published | September 1963 |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | George Kashdan |
Notes | Additional indexing info from Donald Dale Milne. |
Characters | Mike Hunter; unnamed monsters |
Genre | adventure; science fiction; monsters; occult |
Pencils | Dick Dillin |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
Characters | Jack Ward; Ellen Ward; unnamed cousin of Ellen Ward and his gang |
Synopsis | Ellen Ward's cousin concocts an elaborate scheme posing as aliens in an attempt to claim her inheritance from a deceased uncle, but Jack Ward figures out the hoax and captures Ellen's cousin and his gang. |
Genre | adventure |
Pencils | Mort Meskin |
Inks | George Roussos |
Characters | Mike Hunter; Eddie Hunter; employees of Hunter Brothers Construction; Emile LaTour (as monster); employees of Emile LaTour (as monsters); French government official and police |
Synopsis | Mike and Eddie Hunter's construction company is hired to bore a road tunnel through Giant's Tooth, a mountain in the French Alps. As they complete the tunnel they are attacked by beasts, who turn out to be Emile LaTour's tunnel crew from a century before. The beasts save the Hunters' crew from being transformed into beasts and are retrapped in a tunnel cave-in. |
Genre | science fiction; monsters |
Pencils | Howard Sherman |
Inks | Howard Sherman |
Characters | Moolah The Mystic; hotel bellhop |
Synopsis | Moolah decides he cannot sleep on a normal bed in a hotel he is staying at, so he has room service deliver a hammer and he rebuilds the bed as a bed of nails. |
Genre | gag |
Script | Henry Boltinoff |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
Synopsis | Information about ancient technological feats, including tunnels, cities, rock paintings and more. |
Genre | fact |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Roger Steele; unnamed old man; Sam Stevens; Bobo Tillison (death) |
Synopsis | Roger Steele is given a diamond by an unnamed man and told it has a curse that may doom him. He is unable to throw it away without it returning but it is finally stolen and the thief is killed by it. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | George Roussos |
Inks | George Roussos |
Reprinted | in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #175; in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 |