House of Secrets #104

Nick Cardy's cover for this January 1973 issue of House of Secrets sets up an irresistibly eerie premise: a man in a brown jumpsuit plummets past a city skyscraper, grinning with unsettling confidence as he declares, "I can't die… she told me so!" — while below him, a ghastly red-haired specter drifts through the night air. That tension between cocky certainty and obvious peril makes for one of DC's signature horror-anthology hooks, and the interior delivers a tale written by Sheldon Mayer with art by Nestor Redondo and Virgilio Redondo. At just 20 cents, this one packs a lot of dread into a single cover glance.