Cover: Jack Kirby

House of Mystery #78

Sep 1958 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“The 13th Hour”

DC's House of Mystery #78 from September 1958 features the enigmatic Lady in Black dominating the cover — a tall, purple-caped figure in a wide-brimmed hat looming dramatically over a city street thrown into chaos by an earth tremor, while panicked figures in the foreground scatter and point. The cover text spells out the ominous premise perfectly: wherever this mysterious woman appears, disaster strikes. Jack Kirby's cover art brings real kinetic menace to the scene, and inside, Nick Cardy illustrates "The 13th Hour" — all for a dime.

artist, inker Nick Cardy · letterer Pat Gordon · cover Jack Kirby

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artist, inker Nick Cardy

letterer Pat Gordon

cover pencils, inks Jack Kirby

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The Lady in Black seems to be present after disaster after disaster, but it's just a combination of amnesia and coincidence.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).

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