Secrets of Haunted House

Secrets of Haunted House was a horror-suspense comics anthology series published by American company DC Comics from 1975 to 1978 and 1979 to 1982.

Secrets of Haunted House
Secrets of Haunted House #1 (April–May 1975), art by Luis Dominguez.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Bimonthly (#1–14) Monthly (#15–46)
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Horror
Publication date	(#1–14) April–May 1975 – October–November 1978 (#15-46) August 1979–March 1982
No. of issues	46
Main character(s)	Cain, Abel, Eve, Destiny, Lucien
Creative team
Written by	List E. Nelson Bridwell, Gary Cohn, J. M. DeMatteis, Arnold Drake, Paul Kupperberg, Elliot S. Maggin, Sheldon Mayer, David Michelinie, Dan Mishkin, Bob Rozakis, Steve Skeates
Penciller(s)	List Eduardo Barreto, Howard Bender, Jerry Bingham, Stephen R. Bissette, Fred Carrillo, Ernie Chan, E. R. Cruz, Paris Cullins, Tony DeZuniga, Steve Ditko, Bill Draut, Luis Dominguez, Lee Elias, Ramona Fradon, Michael Golden, Adrian Gonzales, Greg LaRocque, Win Mortimer, Michael Netzer, Don Newton, Alex Niño, Nestor Redondo, Jack Sparling, Dan Spiegle, Tom Sutton, Gerry Talaoc, Vicatan, Trevor Von Eeden
Inker(s)	List Bob Smith, Romeo Tanghal
Editor(s)	List Joe Orlando (#1–5) Paul Levitz (#6–14) Jack C. Harris (#15–38) Dick Giordano (#39) Cary Burkett (#40) Dave Manak (#41–46)

Publication history

The series began in April–May 1975.^[1][2] Like its predecessor Secrets of Sinister House, Secrets of Haunted House was originally "hosted" by Cain, Abel, Eve, and Destiny who had moved over from Weird Mystery Tales. By issue #10 (Feb.–March 1978), Destiny was the only one of these who remained a regular. In issue #40 (Sept. 1981), Abel returned with no further mention of Destiny.

A Secrets of Haunted House Special was published in 1978 as part of the DC Special Series umbrella title.^[3] Secrets of Haunted House was a temporary victim of the so-called "DC Implosion". With issue #14 (Oct.–Nov. 1978), it was cancelled but revived a year later with issue #15 (Aug. 1979). The title continued until issue #46 (March 1982).^[1]

The Mister E character was introduced in issue #31 (Dec. 1980) by writer Bob Rozakis and artist Dan Spiegle^[4][5] and became a recurring character for the next ten issues. The final Mister E story appeared in issue #41 (Oct. 1981).^[6]

The series' letter column was titled "The Haunted Mailbox".

Collected editions

• The Steve Ditko Omnibus, Volume 1 includes stories from Secrets of Haunted House #9, 12, 41, and 45, 480 pages, September 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3111-X

References

1. Secrets of Haunted House at the Grand Comics Database
2. Overstreet, Robert M. (2019). Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (49th ed.). Timonium, Maryland: Gemstone Publishing. p. 986. ISBN 978-1603602334.
3. "DC Special Series #12 (Spring 1978)". Grand Comics Database.
4. Manning, Matthew K. (2010). "1980s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. In the last feature of its thirty-first issue, a story by writer Bob Rozakis and artist Dan Spiegle, a new monster hunter named Mister E was introduced.
5. Rozakis, Bob (w), Spiegle, Dan (p), Spiegle, Dan (i). "The Twice-Cursed Man" Secrets of Haunted House, no. 31 (December 1980).
6. Rozakis, Bob; Rozakis, Laurie (w), Spiegle, Dan (p), Spiegle, Dan (i). "The Blood Curse of Maule's Well!" Secrets of Haunted House, no. 41 (October 1981).

External links

• Secrets of Haunted House at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Secrets of Haunted House at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
• McGurk, Caitlin (October 26, 2012). "Found in the Collection: The Secrets of Haunted House". Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013.