House of Secrets #36

House of Secrets #36 brings a genuinely unsettling scene to the cover, penciled by Dick Dillin and inked by Sheldon Moldoff: a warrior figure in a feathered costume raises a shaggy beast-head mask toward a terrified man, while several hulking purple creature-suited figures loom nearby and a horrified blonde woman looks on in the foreground. The speech balloon promises that donning the mask will make the victim one of his "band of invincible creatures," setting up the Mark Merlin mystery within. At a dime a copy in 1960, this issue delivers the kind of eerie, pulpy suspense that made DC's anthology titles so irresistible.