House of Mystery #194

DC's long-running horror anthology returns with a cover that dares you to step inside — and Bernie Wrightson's painted-nightmare imagery makes that dare feel genuinely menacing. A distressed woman in period dress clutches her face in anguish while pale, clawing creatures loom and writhe behind her, and a hulking mechanical figure looms ominously at her side. Inside, Alex Toth handles the full art duties on "Born Loser," making this 1971 issue a remarkable meeting of two distinctive talents on opposite sides of the same cover.