House of Mystery 1951 #228 - 7.0 - $50.00

Crossword puzzle with small head illustration of House of Mystery host Cain.

Images from other DC horror comics with humorous blurbs.

Three single panel gag strips: A dentist drills through the neck of a patient. A boy looking at Easter eggs sees a monster breaking out of one. A ghost is mistaken for a white towel.

Sir Gawain is fighting a dragon in King Arthur's time when he and the dragon are transported to modern-day New York City by a bolt of lightning.

Archaeologist Edgar Preston discovers an ancient wheel-drawing depicting a man's life in visual episodes. The man looks like Preston and soon fantastic events take place like pictured in the scroll. Preston is cast away on an island, murders a lighthouse keeper in the desert and is executed for his crime.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #110.

• - Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
• - Introductory panel with list of story titles and indicia information.
• - Three one panel gags: A large monster hand at a palm reader. A man with a Prepare to Meet Your Doom sign is about to meet his doom. Convicts tunnel into the electric chair room.
• Stamps of Doom! - Bottom third of last page of sequence/story is preview ad for the next issue of Weird Mystery Tales.
• The Wizard's Revenge - Bottom third of last page of story/sequence is preview/ad for next issue of Our Fighting Forces.
• A Coffin for Bonnie and Clyde! - Bottom third of story/sequence page 6 is sequence 12. Bottom third of story/sequence page 12 is a DC house ad. This results in the 11.33 TOTAL page length. The two parts of this story ending in partial pages indicates a few years of age for it, DC having discontinued that construction that long back, but the job number is paradoxically contemporaneous with this publication date.
• Attention College Students! - Text commenting on getting DC magazines into university bookstores.
• - Letter column with illustrated title header. Letters submitted by Joshua Case; John Elliot; Steven Dhuey; Glen James; Arturo Tejada; Bill Senger; Mark Harris.