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Cover: Neal Adams

House of Mystery #179

Mar 1969 · DC · 0.12 USD
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“Sour Note!”

The dare is issued right on the cover — "Do You Dare Enter the House of Mystery?" — and Neal Adams makes the case for caution with this deeply unsettling 1969 image: a shadowy figure crouches on a rain-slicked balcony while a bolt of lightning illuminates a swirling, spectral form rising ominously above the rooftop. Adams' moody green palette and crackling linework give the whole scene a dread-soaked atmosphere that perfectly captures DC's anthology horror at its most atmospheric. Inside, Howie Post's "Sour Note!" awaits anyone willing to step through that door.

writer Howie Post · artist Neal Adams · inker Joe Orlando · letterer Ben Oda · cover Neal Adams

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Full credits

writer Howie Post
artist Neal Adams
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Neal Adams

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In 1897, merchant seaman Angus Beame marries Mary Bourne for her eventual inheritance. When Mary's father's will is read, and is not to Angus' satisfaction, he sails away and leaves Mary. In response, Mary places a curse on her betraying husband that he may not return to harbor until the day she dies.

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