House of Mystery #179 is an issue of the series House of Mystery (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1969.
Synopsis for "Sour Note"
A ghost gives a man a note that he can't read but makes everyone he shows it to hate him.
Appearing in "Sour Note"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Mark Eldon (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Mrs. Danton (As a spirit)
- Police sergeant (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Joyce (Single appearance)
- Mr. Eldon, Mark's father (Single appearance)
Locations:
- House of Mystery
- The old Danton house
- Police station
Items:
- Foreign language note
Synopsis for "The Man Who Murdered Himself"
Victor Warfield and his wife move into an old mansion in 1882. Warfield notices that the mansion was built by Andrew Darwood but it was eventually taken over by a man named Anton Dickerson. Warfield speculates that Dickerson might have murdered Darwood to take possession of the mansion. A hooded figure appears to Warfield one night and offers to reveal the mansion's history. He recounts that the mansion was built by Darwood using stolen money. The paranoid Darwood reinvents himself as Anton Dickerson in order to avoid his pursuers. Warfield then inquires as to how the hooded figure knows all of these facts. At this point the hooded figure pulls off his hood and is revealed to be the ghost of Anton Dickerson, the man that murdered himself.
Appearing in "The Man Who Murdered Himself"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Victor Warfield (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:'
- Mrs. Warfield, Victor's wife (Single appearance)
- Andrew Darwood/Anton Dickerson (As a spirit) (Single appearance)
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Widow's Walk"
When her unloving sailor husband abandons her for the sea, a wife curses him that he shall not put into port as long as she lives. He is lost at sea, and with her dying breath, she allows him to dock. The rotted hulk rises from the bottom, and the zombie captain sails into port at last.
Appearing in "The Widow's Walk"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Angus Beame (Single appearance; dies)
Supporting Characters:
- Mary Bourne (Single appearance; dies)
- Mr. Bourne (Single appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Homer Clyde (Single appearance)
- Mildred Clyde (Single appearance)
Locations:
Vehicles:
- The Mary B., a ship
Notes
- "Sour Note" is reprinted in House of Mystery #229 and Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1.
- "The Man Who Murdered Himself" is reprinted in House of Mystery #228 and Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1.
- "The Widow's Walk" is reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition #C-23, DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #17, Saga of Ra's al Ghul #3, and Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1.
- Other features appearing in this issue of House of Mystery include:
- "Page 13: Roll The Lucky Dice" by Joe Orlando, with art by Sergio Aragonés, and lettering by Gaspar Saladino. Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1.
- "Cain's Game Room" by Sergio Aragonés. Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1.
- "Cain's True Case Files: The Dead Tell Tales", which originally appeared in Detective Comics #293, and is reprinted again in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1.
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