House of Secrets #60

From DC's long-running anthology of the uncanny comes this June 1963 entry in Mark Merlin's supernatural casebook — subtitled right on the cover as "Captive of the Cat Curse!" The cover by Mort Meskin and George Roussos sets the scene vividly: a robed, sword-wielding figure stands over Merlin's apparently lifeless body on a stone altar, while a blonde woman looks on in alarm and a large black cat looms nearby — with speech balloons making the chilling claim that Merlin's life-force has transferred into the cat itself. Arnold Drake's script and Mort Meskin's interior art promise the kind of wildly imaginative twist that made House of Secrets one of DC's most entertaining mystery titles of the era.