House of Mystery

[jaeldubyoo]

Rather than post these under the Silver Age Cover Thread, I'll be posting them under a separate thread because I feel these deserve a thread of their own.

A bit of background--House of Mystery features some of the greatest covers of the horror genre. Greats like Neal Adams and Bernie Wrightson contributed awesome covers. Contributors included the aforementioned, Alex Toth, Wally Wood, Mike Kaluta, Nestor Redondo, Alex Nino, and a host of other talented artists, lierary too numerous to name.

Here's one of my favorite, House of Mystery 178. A great cover and lead story by Neal Adams.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom178.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #180

Adams cover and stories by Gil Kane, Wally Wood and Bernie Wrightson

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom180.jpg

If you noticed I skipped #179, that's because stupid ol' me decided way back when that even if the cover was by Neal Adams I wouldn't buy it if it didn't have any interior art that I liked. Not the first time and probably not the last I'll regret not buying a comic.

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #181

Cover by Adams, with a nice story by Bernis Wrightson.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom181.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #183

Adams cover and a story by an artist that I feel is under-appreciated, Jerry Grandinetti.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom183.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #184

Adams cover with stories by Alex Toth and Kane/Wood.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom184.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #186

Adams cover with stories by Adams and Wrightson.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom186.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #187

Adams cover with stories by Toth and Wood.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom187.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #188

Adams cover with a story by Wrightson.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom188.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #190

Adams cover with a story by Toth.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom190.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #191

Adams Cover with a story by Wrightson.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom191.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #194

Cover by Wrightson with stories by Toth, Heath and Redondo.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom194.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #195

Wrightson cover with stories by Redondo, Wrightson, Kaluta and Kane.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom195.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #196

Adams cover with stories by Redondo, Toth, Cardy and Kane.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom196.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #19

Adams cover with story by Wood.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom199.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #204

Cover by Wrightson with stories by Wrightson and Nino.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom204.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #221

Cover by Wrightson with a story by wrightson/Kaluta.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom221.jpg

[SatansProdigy]

#clap#

[marvelguy]

Great covers, Jae. They are a cool series to have just for the covers alone.

[jaeldubyoo]

But wait...there's more. I'm having fun looking through my boxes and re-dicovering a lot of comics I don't remember having. Many of these are my under copies. I still have many boxes to look through. What can I say, I was a hoarder back then. Eventually I'm going to pare down my collection and sell most of my duplicates.

Here's one of my favorite Adams cover, House of Mystery #189. With a story by Grandenetti and inked by Wood. An odd combination, but it works.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom189.jpg

[SatansProdigy]

Let me now when you start selling! #cloud9#

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #197

Adams cover with a story by Redondo.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom197.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #206

Very nice splash page by Wrightson.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom206.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #214

Terrific cover by Wrightson with a story by Redondo.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom214.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #219

Nice splash page by Wrightson, sotries by Alfredo Alcala and Redondo.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom219.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #220

Stories by Alcala and Nino.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/scan0029.jpg

That's all for today, more to come....

[Hoss]

I love this thread! Keep em coming!

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[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #207

Wrightson cover and splash page.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom207.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/splash207.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

Here are the splash pages to #206 and #219. This is the genius of Wrightson at work. I feel he was just hitting his stride during this period, culminating in his masterpiece, Swamp Thing.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/spl206.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/splash219.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #229. 100 pages for only 60 cents. What a bargain!

The cover is a collage of images by Wrightson and Redondo, with stories by Wrightson, Toth and Redondo.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom229.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #251

Adams cover, with stories by Ramona FradonAragones, Wood, Redondo and Alcala.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom251.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #231

Wrightson cover.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom231.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #211

Wrightson cover and splash page.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom211.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #185

One of my favorites. Cover by Adams. Stories by Grandenetti, Wood, and a great 11 page story by one of the masters, Al Williamson.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom185.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

House of Mystery #291

The cover to this is a bit unusual in that it was done by Joe Kubert, an artist you wouldn't normally associate with horror comics.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom291.jpg

[marvelguy]

Great covers, Jae. Wasn't that series the ones that introduced the "I...Vampire" comics. I had almost forgotten that comic, I used to read it as a kid. That introduced me to the world of vampires and bloodsuckers.

[jaeldubyoo]

MG, the series, "I, Vampire" started in House of Mystery #290. I think I have a copy, but I have to find it.

Anyway, This pretty much wraps up what I have to post. Maybe I'll run across a few stray copies that I haven't posted yet. I have some older ones before the Neal Adams era but I haven't run across them yet. It's been fun sharing with you what I have.

[jaeldubyoo]

Found another one, #200. This one has a nice cover by Mike Kaluta. Interior stories include art by Kaluta , Ralph Reese and Tony De Zuniga.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom200.jpg

[Hoss]

This thread deserves a sticky!

[jaeldubyoo]

#202. Cover by Kaluta. Stories with art by Mike Sekowsky, Nestor Redondo and Sergio Aragones.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom202.jpg

[camper49]

Man, those are nice books.
I wish I knew where my box of horror comics disappeared to (HoM, Unexpected, HoS, etc.).
Can you spell ex-wife????

[pasnat54]

And you know what the best part is? I have most of them! I collected all of DC's horror titles from that era.

I'm not sure whether I told this story here or at the old Corral, but here it is again:

One of the comic fanboy highlights was about two years ago when I was at the San Diego Con and asked Neal Adams to sign my copy of House of Mystery 186 — the great Pan cover for the story "Nightmare."

He used a silver pen that left a great big blotch. He apologized sincerely for that, but I told him "That's cool — it's a Neal Adams blotch."

Got it in my hands right now. Great, great book.

[mordo]

Found another one, #200. This one has a nice cover by Mike Kaluta. Interior stories include art by Kaluta , Ralph Reese and Tony De Zuniga.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/jaeldubyoo/hom/hom200.jpg

I like this cover. When you are looking at the moon you can see a surprised face!

[sterlingcomics]

http://ftp.datazap.net/ftp/sterlingcomics/corral/houseofmystery_174_cgc_9_6_ow_0067374015_a.jpg

[sterlingcomics]

http://ftp.datazap.net/ftp/sterlingcomics/corral/houseofmystery_176_cgc_9_4_white_0145787005_a.jpg

[sterlingcomics]

http://ftp.datazap.net/ftp/sterlingcomics/corral/houseofmystery_177_cgc_9_6_oww_0065384002_pacificc oast_a.jpg

[sterlingcomics]

http://ftp.datazap.net/ftp/sterlingcomics/corral/houseofmystery_186_cgc_9_6_oww_0064873001_a.jpg

[sterlingcomics]

http://ftp.datazap.net/ftp/sterlingcomics/corral/houseofmystery_192_cgc_9_4_oww_0706498007_donrosa_ a.jpg

[sterlingcomics]

http://ftp.datazap.net/ftp/sterlingcomics/corral/houseofmystery_193_cgc_9_8_white_0146236001_a.jpg

[jaeldubyoo]

:shock: Nice comics! I don't need to tell you how hard those are to find in grade. As you can see, most of mine are mid-grade. Back in the 70's and 80's when I got them, those horror comics were bargain bin fodder. I was satisfied just having a copy to read. Ah, if only I knew then what I know now.

[sterlingcomics]

Yep, these aren't necessarily difficult, but they aren't easy either. I think all of this stuff was cheap until I was going after my HOM CGC run in 2003. I still have around 15+ to go to wrap up my registry set...I'd be grateful if anyone here has some books I need to fill in the holes.

[habib]

Very Sweet books Sterling!!

Thanks for sharing!!

[comicworkbench]

http://ftp.datazap.net/ftp/sterlingcomics/corral/houseofmystery_174_cgc_9_6_ow_0067374015_a.jpg



Awesome House of Mysterys. This cover reminded me of Brave and the Bold #93. It looks like this cover inspired Nel Adams for his cover on BB#93.

As I have a heck of a time loading pictures, here is an ebay auction with the cover I am talking about.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Brave-and-the-Bold-93-CGC-7-5-House-of-Mystery-Batman_W0QQitemZ130149535846QQihZ003QQcategoryZ338 09QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp 1638Q2em118Q2el1247

[sterlingcomics]

Neal used it also for a Superman cover...even stole the "Dare you" line too.

http://www.gcdcovers.com/graphics/covers/116/400/116_4_236.jpg

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of some favourites from my collection:

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery100.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery119.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery138.jpg

:cool:

[nocutename]

The colors on them are exquisite. I would love to learn how your collection was stored over the long haul and if you purchased these off the rack. Not trying to be nosy just interested in the preseveration.

[Hepcat]

No, I purchased them over the years in the aftermarket from Harley Yee and other dealers. I store them now in Mylites with Halfbacks/Thin-X-Tenders in a lateral filing cabinet. See this thread:

http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/showthread.php?6713-I-m-here!&p=86219#post86219

:cool:

[habib]

No, I purchased them over the years in the aftermarket from Harley Yee and other dealers. I store them now in Mylites with Halfbacks/Thin-X-Tenders in a lateral filing cabinet. See this thread:

http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/showthread.php?6713-I-m-here!&p=86219#post86219

:cool:

Harley is a great guy......but cheap he ain't!

Books that nice run a bunch-o-green!!

[nocutename]

Harley is a great guy......but cheap he ain't!

Books that nice run a bunch-o-green!!

I honestly skip his booth anytime I see it at a show because I know his prices are above my spending. Someone over at the DC boards I chat with has actually gotten Harley to discount a few books. I was shocked because I remember hearing that he never discounts. These were semi key books too.

[habib]

I honestly skip his booth anytime I see it at a show because I know his prices are above my spending. Someone over at the DC boards I chat with has actually gotten Harley to discount a few books. I was shocked because I remember hearing that he never discounts. These were semi key books too.

That is shocking! :eek:

That being said I am sure I could get somewhat of a discount from Harley if I really wanted a book since I have been selling to him at conventions for many years (at a nice dealer discount). That man is a buying machine on set-up days!!

Come to my booth at one of the big shows like Heroes con and I can hook you up with some great books at nice discounts!! (with even a little special corral member discount!)

I have had the pleasure of meeting several Corralites at shows including Scarecrow, MG, Linda and CG (I know I have missed some.....sorry guys.....getting #oldie#)

[malaprop]

Habib, do you think you'll make it to Wizard World Chicago this year? I'm going to make a real effort.

[habib]

Habib, do you think you'll make it to Wizard World Chicago this year? I'm going to make a real effort.

Put down a deposit on my booth space last summer! My favorite show of the year!

That being said with all the changes at Wizard recently I better contact them and confirm they haven't screwed me over........

[Hepcat]

Come to my booth at one of the big shows like Heroes con and I can hook you up with some great books at nice discounts!! (with even a little special corral member discount!)

Sure! But I just checked your profile and I didn't find your dealer name.

:confused:

[habib]

Sure! But I just checked your profile and I didn't find your dealer name.

:confused:

Just look for Mark Scott or Mark Scott Comics.....That is what we go by.

Heroes Con, WW Chicago Comic Con, Motor City Con are the big Conventions we will do for sure this year....plus we do several local 1-day shows around here (live in Indiana).

May end up going to a couple other big shows but not sure yet......

[Hepcat]

Here are three more scans of my favourite House of Mystery books;

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery177.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery186.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery189.jpg

:cool:

[custodes]

^From that period where DC decided that, covers depicting 12 year old boys in danger, sold better for several months. Beautiful art.

[Hepcat]

Neal Adams told me at a show that he patterned the kids on those covers after his own.

:wink:

[custodes]

^ Lucky kids. Reminds me of the first appearence of Swamp Thing with Louise (not yet Simonson) as the model on the cover.

[Hepcat]

Here's another nice one from my collection:

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/13-07-2011100621PM.jpg

:cool:

[custodes]

Kandy King...nice. He'll fill your mouth with pop rocks and soda.

[illuminated]

Here are scans of some favourites from my collection:

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery100.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofMystery119.jpg

:cool:

I've always dug HOM 119 cover. Don't know why. That sure is a nice copy there.

Nice 100, too!

I must stop looking before I fall off the wagon again. Must. Sell. Pay. For. Last. Bender.

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of a few more of my Silver Age House of Mystery comics:

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/13-07-2011100601PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183936PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183943PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183947PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183953PM.jpg

#professor#

[Hepcat]

A few more scans from my collection:

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/18-09-2011112139PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/13-07-2011100608PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/13-07-2011100612PM.jpg

:cool:

[Hepcat]

A few more scans from my collection:

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/13-07-2011100616PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/18-09-2011112142PM.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183940PM.jpg

:cool: