HOUSE OF SECRETS #66 (May1964) 5.0 VG/FN 1st ECLIPSO cover! ALEX TOTH artwork!

Item Specifics

Series Name

HOUSE OF SECRETS

Issue Number

#66

Publisher

DC Comics

Grade

5.0 VG/FN

Certification

Uncertified

Signed

No

Item Description

HOUSE OF SECRETS was the name of several mystery, fantasy, and horror comics anthologies published by DC Comics starting in 1956. The title ran for 80 issues, until October of 1966. And in addition to short, "one-off" stories, most issues featured the adventures of modern-day sorcerer Mark Merlin who first appeared in issue #23 (August 1959), and later, the dual-personality super villain ECLIPSO, who was introduced in issue #61 (August 1963) and continued to the series' end.

The much-admired artist ALEX TOTH did his first comic book work for DC in 1947 - the same year he graduated from High School! In 1966 he created 'SPACE GHOST' for Hanna-Barbera . . . but in between those two dates he did many adventurous and beautifully-drawn comics for DC -- and this issue of HOUSE OF SECRETS has a great chunk of his talent on display!

Toth's distinctive art tells the 12-page story of "The Two Faces of DOOM!". Toth had been illustrating the tales of ECLIPSO, "Half Hero, Half Villain" for nearly a year, and this story tells how Bruce Gordon develops an ultra-violet ray gun to try to make ECLIPSO into a force for good. But a meteor crashes to the ground and a space-creature is released that gives ECLIPSO dangerous new powers.

"The Man Who Played Sorcerer!" is the lead story and finds House of Secret's main character, sleuth of the supernatural Mark Merlin, trying to right the damage caused when an amateur magician finds himself with Merlin's bag of tricks and misuses them!

This 56-year old comic is in good shape, with a solid binding and bright-colored pages with normal toning. No apparent blemishes lead us to grade it a 5.0 VG/FN . . and we think you'll agree! And don't listen to Overstreet's assessment of $20 -- we say $10 and that's final! (well, except to mention our L•O•W shipping and handling!)(And to remind you that additional purchases add nothing more to your shipping costs!)

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