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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published March-April 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Murray Boltinoff

Cover Details

Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy

4 page story "The Crimson Claw!"

Characters John Wilkes Booth; Abraham Lincoln
Synopsis He was born to a fearsome fate, and he could only escape it if he learned the secret of the mysterious omen that haunted him!
Genre Horror
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Notes Synopsis from reprint.
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-32 (December 1974-January 1975)

6 page story "The Ghostly Cities of Gold!"

Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks Jerry Grandenetti

5 page story "The Man Who Killed His Shadow"

Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted from House of Mystery #16

7 page story "The Fanged Spectres of Kinshoro"

Synopsis Dark Africa holds many secrets - and the most dangerous are the powers of M'Timbu, the witch doctor of Kinshoro!
Genre Horror
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua]
Inks Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua]
Notes Synopsis from reprint.
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-32 (December 1974-January 1975)

6 page story "The Legend of the Black Swan"

Synopsis from House of Mystery #48
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon

1 page text story "The Puzzle of the Playful Ghosts"

Letters typeset

8 page story "The Threshold of Nightmare House"

Pencils John Calnan
Inks John Calnan