House of Mystery #72

From DC's long-running supernatural anthology comes this 1958 edition of House of Mystery, featuring a cover by Ruben Moreira that sets an instantly compelling scene: a elegantly dressed woman sits completely enclosed within a glass dome, calmly sipping wine at what appears to be a fine restaurant, while baffled and intrigued onlookers — including a man in a tuxedo leaning in for a closer look — react with visible curiosity. The cover's own teasing caption — "Who is that woman? Why is she always enclosed in that sealed booth wherever she goes?" — promises the kind of delightfully eerie puzzle that made House of Mystery such a reliable source of mid-century strangeness. Inside, George Roussos brings the art for "Dark Journey," making this a satisfying snapshot of DC's mystery anthology tradition at its imaginative best.