Michael Kaluta and House of Mystery, 1972-1973

Michael Kaluta did many fantastic covers for House of Mystery and other DC mystery titles. Here's some House of Mystery covers from early in his DC career.

House of Mystery #200, March 1972.

House of Mystery #201, April 1972.

House of Mystery #202, May 1972.

House of Mystery #210, January 1973.

House of Mystery #212, March 1973.


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Bernie Wrightson Jack O' Lanterns

Secrets of Haunted House #5, January 1976.

Secrets of Haunted House #44, January 1982.

House of Mystery #256, February 1978.

House of Secrets #139, January 1976.

Bernie Wrightson: The House of Mystery

The best way to start off the Countdown to Halloween is with some classic art by Bernie Wrightson!

House of Mystery #193, August 1971.

House of Mystery #194, September 1971.

House of Mystery #207, October 1972.

House of Mystery #209, December 1972.

House of Mystery #211, February 1973.

House of Mystery

A fun cover by Jack Kirby for DC's House of Mystery.

House of Mystery #85, April 1959.

Wrightson's DC "House" Covers

There's only a couple hours left on the east coast of the first day of The Countdown to Halloween. But that's plenty of time to start it off right by posting all of Bernie Wrightson's covers for DC's House of Mystery and House of Secrets comic books.

House of Mystery #193, August 1971.

House of Mystery #194, September 1971.

House of Mystery #204, July 1972.

House of Mystery #207, October 1972.

House of Mystery #209, December 1972.

House of Mystery #211, February 1973.

House of Mystery #213, April 1973.

House of Mystery #214, May 1973.

House of Mystery #231, May 1975.

House of Mystery #236, October 1975.

House of Mystery #255, December 1977.

House of Mystery#256, February 1978.

Welcome Back to the House of Mystery #1, July 1998.

House of Mystery Vol. 2, #1, July 2008.

House of Secrets #92, July 1971.

House of Secrets #93, September 1971.

House of Secrets #94, November 1971.

House of Secrets #96, March 1972.

House of Secrets #100, September 1972.

House of Secrets #103, December 1972.

House of Secrets #106, March 1973.

House of Secrets #107, April 1973.

House of Secrets #135, September 1975.

House of Secrets #139, January 1976.

Bernie Wrightson's House of Mystery #193

Here's a scan of the original art by Bernie Wrightson for House of Mystery #193, cover dated July-August 1971. Below that is a scan of the published comic book cover.

Welcome to the House of Mystery

Here's a selection of Bernie Wrightson's introduction pages to DC's House of Mystery title.

Bernie had started working for DC in 1969. He began doing these introduction pages in early 1972 and they appeared throughout that year and through most of the next. Speaking about them in A Look Back, Wrightson said:

In those days I could live a lot cheaper than today. So, I didn't need many jobs to pay the rent. I wanted to do a lot of goofing off, playing around. It was my idea to do introduction pages to the mystery books...If I needed money, I would do two or three of the intro pages and pickup whatever I was getting paid at the time, forty-five, fifty dollars for each of them...I could do it in a night. Almost all of them were knocked out in one night.

House of Mystery #201, April 1972.




House of Mystery #203, June 1972.




House of Mystery #205, August 1972.




House of Mystery #206, September 1972.




House of Mystery #209, December 1972.






House of Mystery #211, February 1973.