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Cover: Joe Orlando & Dick Giordano

House of Mystery #264

Jan 1979 · DC · 0.40 USD
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“Then Beggars Could Ride!”

House of Mystery #264 is DC's special Halloween issue, and the cover by Joe Orlando and Dick Giordano delivers a genuinely unsettling All Hallows' Eve scene — a snarling, wild-haired creature lunges forward amid a crowd of ghoulish figures, while terrified trick-or-treaters clutch their bags beneath a glowing jack-o'-lantern. The blue-toned horror of the assembled monsters pressing down on the screaming children gives the whole image a wonderfully creepy atmosphere that suits the anthology's reputation perfectly. Inside, Steve Clement and artist Juan Ortiz bring the chills with "Then Beggars Could Ride!" — a fine addition to this long-running DC horror series from 1979.

writer Steve Clement · artist, inker Juan Ortiz · colorist Cory Adams · letterer Milt Snapinn · cover Joe Orlando, Dick Giordano

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artist, inker Juan Ortiz
colorist Cory Adams
letterer Milt Snapinn
cover pencils Joe Orlando
cover inks Dick Giordano

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After Tom Elliot kills his father he learns the secret that his father and his best friend shared.

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