House of Mystery (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1958.
Synopsis for "The Man with the Nine Lives"
Appearing in "The Man with the Nine Lives"
Featured Characters:
- Lou Masters (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Doc Shelley (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Cat-fancier man (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Little boy (Unnamed)(Single appearance)
Locations:
Vehicles:
- Squad car
Synopsis for "The Menace of the Maze"
Two archeologists enter a pharaohs maze in search of treasure. The further they enter the more lost they become. The maze is also filled with deadly booby traps. The archeologists decide to turn back and leave but when they do they become even more lost as they travel in circles. They finally find a doorway that is marked “My greatest treasure king Thutmose.” They open it and it leads the two archeologists straight outdoors. It is then that they realize that the kings' greatest treasure was his freedom.
Appearing in "The Menace of the Maze"
Featured Characters:
- Warren (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Laird Barth (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- King Thutmose (Flashback only)
Locations:
- Egypt
- King Thutmose's maze
- King Thutmose's maze
Synopsis for "The Wooden Bodyguard"
Appearing in "The Wooden Bodyguard"
Featured Characters:
- Roger (Single appearance)
- Orry (Single appearance)
- Hank (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Osano (Single appearance)
Animals:
- Timber Wolves
Locations:
Items:
- Totem Pole
- Gold masks
Vehicles:
- Old canoe
Synopsis for "The Creatures from Nowhere!"
Giant creatures begin to appear in a small suburban town. Residents panic and call upon leading anthropologist, Tom Conroy for guidance. Conroy patrols the city along with police chief Hodges and witnesses and incredible display of alien creatures as they wreak havoc on the small town. They eventually encounter a creature with a lens on its head that exposes them to a powerful beam when it spots them in a window reflection and allows it to escape. The military is called in to handle the situation as the creatures continue to cause damage to the town. They beeline to a nearby water tower and climb inside as they are led by the creature with a Lens on its head. The citizens soon witness that the water tower is actually a spaceship that takes off into the sky. Conroy surmises that the creatures were being transported from one planet to another, but crash landed on earth. He also surmises that the creature with the Lens was the keeper since it had the intelligence to recognize them as a danger when he saw them in the windows reflection. Conroy then announces that the keeper had given him a ray gun in return for his help in getting the military to show restraint as the creatures made their escape from the planet.
Appearing in "The Creatures from Nowhere!"
Featured Characters:
- Conroy (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Chief Hodges (Single appearance)
- Alien Keeper (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Otherworldly creatures (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Anna Smith (Single appearance)
- Ray (Single appearance)
- Ms. Hart (Single appearance)
- Jim (Single appearance)
Locations:
- An undisclosed city
Items:
- Reflective ray gun
Vehicles:
- Tank
- Spaceship
Notes
- "The Menace of the Maze" was reprinted in The Unexpected #129.
- "The Creatures from Nowhere!" was reprinted in DC Special #11.
- Other features appearing in this issue of House of Mystery include:
- "Moolah the Mystic" (1-Page humor strip) by Henry Boltinoff.
- "Wanted: A Teen-Age Code" (1-Page Public Service Announcement) Written by Jack Schiff, art by Ruben Moreira, and lettered by Ira Schnapp.
- "Psychic Explosions" (1-Page text article)
- "Professor Eureka" (2-Page humor strip) by Henry Boltinoff.
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