House of Mystery, #34

Published: January 1955

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House of Mystery #34

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Issue Contents:
Doom Enters a Beauty Contest!
1 page
Credits
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Hundred-Year Duel!
Story 2 6 pages
Storyline

American native Charlie Whitehorse of Sioux descent feels compelled to battle a Crow warrior – as their forefathers decreed a hundred years ago. Their duel to the death in a nightly baseball stadium ends with the burying of the war-axe.

Credits
Story Notes

First-person narrative.

Story 3 1 page
Superboy Says: "Know Your Country!"
Story 4 1 page advocacy; superhero
Credits
The Man Who Became a Fish
Story 5 6 pages
Storyline

Dr. Clay claims to be able to transform any living matter back into a primordial fish-like state. Two cops come searching his house for escaped convict Bolton. They are made to believe that Bolton swims around as a fish now in Clay’s big aquarium tank.

Credits
Man or Wolf?
Story 6 1 page
Story 7 1 page
Story 8 1 page humor

"You, in the back of the room..."

Sorcery from the Skies!
Story 9 6 pages
Storyline

In a reconstructed New England fishing village strange things are happening. Wagons, boats and statues begin to stir like being moved by magic. Behind all this is a clever newspaperman cashing in on the phenomenon. The town sheriff, however, can call the bluff.

Credits
Madame's Museum of Mystery
Story 10 2 pages non-fiction
Characters
  • Madame Tussaud
Credits
Story Notes

These text stories writing credits keep changing their first names. "John" or "Jack" Marston. "Joe" or "Jack" Mabely. Behind all of those is Jack Miller.

Story 11 1 page children

"Look - There's Ruffy!"

Credits
Story 12 1 page humor

"A lion! Run, Shorty!"

Doom Enters a Beauty Contest!
Story 13 6 pages
Storyline

Beautiful, orphaned Amy Leaf comes under custody of her uncle. He forces her to dress as plainly as possible and hide her beauty. Uncle tells her gruesome family history tales and manipulates the world around Amy to play dead when she passes in make-up.

Credits
Story Notes

Cover story. First-person narrative.

Now More Than Ever-
Story 14 0 pages
Story 15 1 page
Story 16 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 17 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.