Moolah the Mystic

Moolah the Mystic is a comedic one-page filler character created by Henry Boltinoff for DC's House of Mystery. A self-styled fortune teller whose predictions reliably fail, his humor stems entirely from the gap between his mystical pretensions and his comically nonexistent actual abilities.

Conjured into existence in the pages of House of Mystery #41 in 1955, Moolah the Mystic is a wonderfully atmospheric DC creation from the twilight of the Golden Age, born from the imaginations of editor Jack Schiff and artist Win Mortimer. Over a fifteen-year run spanning House of Mystery, House of Secrets, and Showcase, this enigmatic figure carved out a respectable 66 appearances — three of them collector-recognized key issues — in the eerie, anthology-driven corners of DC's mid-century universe. The company Moolah keeps is genuinely eclectic: sharing pages with the likes of Superman, Clark Kent, Mark Merlin, and Professor Eureka speaks to a character who moved through DC's strange and storied landscape with surprising range. For fans of the moody, mystery-tinged Silver Age that DC did so well, Moolah the Mystic is exactly the kind of hidden gem worth tracking down.