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Issue Details

Issue #83
Published December 1969-January 1970
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Dick Giordano

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1

1 page Abel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Welcome to the House of Secrets"

Characters Abel
Genre horror
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes Introduction to next sequence/story.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1

6 page story "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"

Genre Horror
Script Marv Wolfman
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982); in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1

1 page Abel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Interlude"

Characters Abel
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Dick Giordano
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1

4 page story "Bigger Than a Breadbox"

Genre horror
Pencils Art Saaf ? (see notes)
Inks Art Saaf ? (see notes)
Notes Original indexer had Mike Roy as penciller and Mike Peppe as inker. Original artwork was in Art Saaf's possession according to his son Steve (see error report June 2009). From this statement the credits were changed to Art Saaf. DC credits Pencils by Mike Royer and Inks by Mike Peppe in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1

1 page Abel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Interlude"

Characters Abel
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Dick Giordano
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1

6 page story "The House of Endless Years"

Characters Cain (story host); Judy (girl); Neal (Peggy's brother); old hag; Peggy (girl); Tippy (Peggy's dog)
Synopsis Two girls, Judy and Peggy, in search of Peggy's lost brother Neal, enter an old house where lives an old hag who warns them to leave for their own good. They don't and find out that the evil house drains the life from those in it by leeching on their fear of death, condemning them to an endless eternity.
Genre horror
Script Gerry Conway [as Gerard Conway]
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Bill Draut
Reprinted in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #224 (April-May 1974); in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982); in Welcome Back to the House Of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1 (July 1998); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3; in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1

1 page Abel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Epilogue"

Characters Abel
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Dick Giordano
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets (DC, 2008 series) #1