House of Mystery, #23
Published: February 1954
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Stamps of Doom!
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- Letters: Ira Schnapp
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The Flying Dutchman!
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Unemployed seaman Mike Dillon gets shanghaied onto the fabled Flying Dutchman where he has to do menial work. Dillon protests and drives a cutlass through the cruel captain’s heart. The captain is unharmed, though. Later on Dillon finds out that the sword is just a fake one and the ship a front for a sailing counterfeiting operation.
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- Pencils: Jim Mooney
- Inks: Jim Mooney
"Headhunters live in this part of the jungle!"
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- Pencils: Ray Thompson
- Inks: Ray Thompson
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The Best Present of All!
The Phantom Highwayman Rides Again!
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London eccentric Derek Drew falls in love with a young woman named Minerva and starts to court her. Drew has a dark secret, he was a highwayman of the 16th century who was betrayed by a woman also named Minerva.
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- Pencils: Ramona Fradon
- Inks: Ramona Fradon
The Line of Stars Presents
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House ad for The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (DC, 1952 series) #10 and The Adventures of Bob Hope (DC, 1950 series) #25, with cover repros.
Body Possessed
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- Pencils: Morris Waldinger
- Inks: Morris Waldinger
Story Notes
Art id by Bob Rozakis and Gene Reed.
The Gangster and the Ghost!
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American gangster Earl Crandall learns that he has English roots and used to be the Earl of Crandall. Not believing, of course, that a ghost haunts the castle he inherits, Crandall enters the premises in the company of a “ghost-breakerâ€.
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- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: Ray Burnley
The Man Who Made Gold
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- Script: Franz Stummer
- Pencils: Luca Maresca
- Inks: Luca Maresca
Voice from Nowhere!
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- Pencils: Morris Waldinger
- Inks: Morris Waldinger
The Stamps of Doom!
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Collector Alex Manning excavates the quarters of a Nazi concentration camp commander – where 13 rare stamps depicting atrocities are kept. Whoever owns the fatal stamps will meet an untimely death.
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Cover story.
Superman on Television! Is Super-TV
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Inside back cover.