House of Secrets #82

DC's long-running anthology of the uncanny serves up a genuinely unsettling November 1969 cover by Neal Adams — a ferocious, ghostly warrior wielding a bow bursts forward from an old television set, looming over two startled children playing cowboys-and-Indians on the living room floor, their toy gun and TV Guide suddenly feeling very inadequate. The tagline "There's No Escape From… The House of Secrets" sets the mood perfectly, with host Abel's leering face tucked into the corner as a reminder that whatever waits inside these pages, it's already too late to turn back. Writer Marv Wolfman and artist Dick Dillin bring the interior tales to life, with Adams pulling double duty on both pencils and inks to deliver a cover that blurs the line between imagination and something far more real.