Thursday, March 3, 2011

Random Reads: House of Mystery #270


Just grab any issue of House of Mystery from the spinner rack of yesterday and you'll have a grand and gruesome time! Just take ish #270 (April 1979), f'rinstance. Beneath the bone-chilling Joe Orlando/Vinnie Colletta cover, the mag kicks off with a li'l gem that most all of us comicbook fiends can relate to by J.M. DeMatteis, Jim Sherman, and Joe Rubenstein. This one's for every shady dealer who ever ripped off a fan--"The Collector!"


That twisted tale is followed by a creepy costume chiller by Wyatt Gwynon and Jerry Bingham called "Black Mass"...


The ish is rounded out by a short-shocker by Scott Edelman and the amazing and underrated Tenny Henson who've concocted "A Model Murder"! Dig it, Groove-ophiles!
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  1. Mike MikulovskyMarch 3, 2011 at 3:30 AM

    Hey Groovyone!
    Boy talk about bad karma huh? Loved the Collector, Rubenstein sure is a great inker. Man I miss the days of zip-a-tone. Tom Palmer used to use it all the time in Tomb of Dracula & on Nova. Great tale, reminds me of how Siegel & Shuster got screwed by National/DC. Ironic how this was in a DC comic!

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  2. joe ackermanMarch 3, 2011 at 6:03 AM

    this would've been way after I stopped reading the DC mystery titles, by 1979, Nino, Alcala, Toth, Kane, and Rubeny had all moved on to other things, but I DO remember Tenny Henson, and you're right, he has been overlooked. we need to put that right.

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  3. HEHMarch 4, 2011 at 8:50 AM

    More from The House of Mystery, please!

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  4. Mike MikulovskyMarch 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    What HEH said! But please give us some early House of Mystery & SOON! Hey any plans for a St.Patty's Day/Lephrecan related stories?

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