House of Secrets #21
In "The Creature in the Candle," a lone writer investigating ghost towns of the Old West gets a chilling telegraph from another dimension, hinting at a long-buried alien threat that was somehow stopped. Sheldon Moldoff’s moody artwork brings a creeping unease to this eerie tale, while Bill Ely’s haunting cover captures the story’s unsettling tone. A 10-cent comic from 1959, it’s a standout in DC’s early horror anthology series.
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A writer exploring ghost towns of the West receives a telegraph message from another dimension, telling of an alien invasion that was foiled years earlier.
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