House of Mystery #289

Joe Kubert's cover sets an unsettling scene: a hunched, monstrous figure crouches on the floor surrounded by a crowd of eerily blank-faced children and teens, scattered newspapers spread beneath him — all under the taunting tagline "School's Out… Forever!" It's a genuinely creepy tableau that captures exactly the kind of dread DC's anthology horror titles delivered so well in 1981. Inside, J. M. DeMatteis contributes the evocatively titled "Brother Bobby's Home for Wayward Boys and Girls," with art by Rubeny and colors by Bob LeRose.