House of Mystery #39

From the deck of an ancient Roman galley, a wide-eyed modern man grabs an oar alongside haggard, straining rowers — his thought balloon crying out that he must be dreaming, a 20th-century captive lost in the ancient world. Bill Ely's cover art captures that disorienting blend of the familiar and the fantastical that made DC's House of Mystery such a compelling anthology in 1955. Three stories await inside, including "Professor Smith's Magic Lamp," promising the kind of imaginative what-if scenarios that kept readers coming back issue after issue.