House of Secrets #28

This January 1960 DC anthology delivers a pulse-pounding Mark Merlin Mystery with a cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff that immediately commands attention. Dominating the scene is a towering, yellow-and-brown beast lunging forward as a man sprints away, while a red-haired woman kneels in the foreground crying out, "Mark! Come back! How can you battle that monster with your bare hands?" The interior story, "The Man Who Made Monsters," illustrated by George Roussos, promises exactly the kind of imaginative, unsettling adventure that made House of Secrets a standout title of its era.