Cover: Ruben Moreira

House of Mystery #26

May 1954 · DC · 0.10 USD

📊 ~8,742 copies sold its debut month

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“The Man with the Magic Ears!”

In "The Man with the Magic Ears!", pioneering engineer Alfred Jarvis harnesses a strange machine that lets him hear the voices of plants— their cries, their sobs, their final sighs. As he becomes obsessed with protecting flora from human destruction, his actions grow more extreme, turning him into a figure of suspicion and fear. Curt Swan's art, inked by Ray Burnley, brings a haunting, grounded realism to this eerie 1954 tale, while Ruben Moreira's cover captures the story's unsettling mood with striking detail.

artist Curt Swan · inker Ray Burnley · cover Ruben Moreira

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artist Curt Swan

inker Ray Burnley

cover pencils, inks Ruben Moreira

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Pioneering engineer Alfred Jarvis builds a machine with which he can hear the sounds plants make. Their cries, their sobs, their dying sighs. He goes on a rampage to stop people from cutting flowers, but is suspected to be a madman.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).

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