House of Mystery #58

A street scene turned eerily surreal graces Bill Ely's cover for this 1957 DC anthology: well-dressed passersby compulsively hand their money to a small organ-grinder's monkey, helpless against some unseen musical force drifting through the air. The caption captures their bewilderment perfectly — "I don't know why, but that strange music is forcing us to give money to the organ-grinder's monkey!" — setting a delightfully offbeat tone for the issue's trio of tales, including "The Haunted Melody," "Magic Spectacles," "Phantom on Wheels," and "Glitter of Doom." At just a dime, House of Mystery #58 delivers that signature blend of everyday settings and creeping strangeness that made DC's mystery anthologies so entertaining in the late 1950s.