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Issue: House of Secrets #49
Publication Date: October 1961
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Issues: #49 of 154 Issues (157 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/22/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jack Schiff; Murray Boltinoff (associate editor); George Kashdan (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Captives of the Parallel World!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Dillin
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Mark Merlin Mystery
Character(s): Mark Merlin; Elsa Magussen
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Test Your Talent

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Art Instruction, Inc.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Reluctant Sorcerer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Howard Purcell
Penciller(s): Howard Purcell (signed)
Inker(s): Howard Purcell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Stan Starkman
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: When Tommy helps a woman in trouble, she gives him magic powers but what he really wants is for his missing parents to come home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHouse of Mystery #224 published April 1974
as The Reluctant Sorcerer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror #69 published ?
as Zauberer wider Willen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.67
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tootsie Roll
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Pages: 0.33
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Big-Big-Big News about a Small-Small-Small Super-Hero

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Showcase; The Atom
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: house ad for Showcase (DC, 1955 series) #34, featuring the Atom's first Silver Age appearance
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A Message from Otto the Robot!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Schiff
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Synopsis: Bobby dreams about the fantastic future that robots will provide, but the robot in his dream reminds him that humans will always be needed too.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
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The Forbidden Stones of Zhatec

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Ely (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Ely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: When an ancient temple is moved and rebuilt at a city museum, two giant phantom warriors emerge and battle each other, looking for a lost treasure.
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Pages: 7.67
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[untitled]

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tootsie Roll Fudge
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Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Centre Coin Company
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Pages: 0.5
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Revolutionary War Soldiers
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Challenge for a Coward

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Peter Puptent Explorer
Character(s): Peter Puptent
First Line: You lie still, Puptent.
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Palisades Amusement Park
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Pages: 0.5
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Captives of the Parallel World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin
Inker(s): George Roussos
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A Mark Merlin Mystery
Character(s): Mark Merlin; Elsa Magussen; Professor Vaar; Vic Dunn
Synopsis: Mark and Elsa are drawn into another dimension to help capture a criminal from their own world.
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Pages: 8.67
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[untitled]

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tootsie Roll Ice Cream Bar
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Pages: 0.33
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Frontier Cabin
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): 150 Civil War Soldiers
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jowett Institute of Physical Training
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wallace Brown, Inc.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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