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\nBy Joe Orlando<\/strong>, Michael Fleischer<\/strong>, Maxine Fabe<\/strong>, Jack Oleck<\/strong>, John Albano<\/strong>, Sergio Aragon\u00e9s<\/strong>, Steve Skeates<\/strong>, Mark Evanier<\/strong>, Robert Kanigher<\/strong>, George Kashdan<\/strong>, Doug Moench<\/strong>, Sheldon Mayer<\/strong>, E. Nelson Bridwell<\/strong>, John Jacobson<\/strong>, David Micheline<\/strong>, Gerard Conway<\/strong>, David Izzo<\/strong>, Dennis O\u2019Neil<\/strong>, Marv Wolfman<\/strong>, John Broome<\/strong>, Paul Levitz<\/strong>, Bob Rozakis<\/strong>, Mark Hanerfeld<\/strong>, David Kasakove<\/strong>, Michael J. Pellowski<\/strong>, Martin Pasko<\/strong>, Bernie Wrightson<\/strong>, Michael William Kaluta<\/strong>, John Calnan<\/strong>, Murphy Anderson<\/strong>, Ruben Yandoc<\/strong>, Alex N. Ni\u00f1o<\/strong>, Romy Gamboa<\/strong>, Adolfo Buylla<\/strong>, Sonny Trinidad<\/strong>, Nestor Redondo<\/strong>, Rico Rival<\/strong>, Gerry Talaoc<\/strong>, Fred Carrillo<\/strong>, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, Bernard Baily<\/strong>, Abe Ocampo<\/strong>, Alfredo Alcala<\/strong>, Frank Thorne<\/strong>, Frank \u201cQuico\u201d Redondo<\/strong>, Eufronio Reyes (E.R.) Cruz<\/strong>, Ralph Reese<\/strong>, Ramona Fradon<\/strong>, Frank Robbins<\/strong>, Bill Draut<\/strong>, Howard Purcell<\/strong>, Dick Dillin<\/strong>, Neal Adams<\/strong>, Mort Meskin<\/strong>, George Roussos<\/strong>, Frank Giacoia<\/strong>, Mike Sekowsky<\/strong>, Jack Kirby<\/strong>, Don Heck<\/strong>, Joe Giella<\/strong>, Jack Sparling<\/strong>, Pat Broderick<\/strong>, Leonard Starr<\/strong>, Carmine Infantino<\/strong>, Bernard Sachs<\/strong>, Bill Ely<\/strong>, Jess M. Jodloman<\/strong>, Curt Swan & George Klein<\/strong>, & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-4012-2183-6 (TPB)<\/p>\n

American comicbooks started slowly until the creation of Superman<\/strong> unleashed a torrent of creative imitation and invented a new genre: superheroes. Implacably vested in the Second World War, they swept all before them until the troops came home whereupon older genres supplanted the Fights \u2018n\u2019 Tights crowd.<\/p>\n

Although new kids kept up the buying, much of the previous generation also retained their four-colour habit but increasingly sought older themes in the reading matter. The war years altered the psychology of humanity, and as a more world-weary, cynical young public came to see that all the fighting and dying hadn\u2019t really changed anything their chosen forms of entertainment (film and prose as well as comics) reflected this. As well as Western, War and Crime comics, madcap escapist comedy and anthropomorphic funny animal features were immediately resurgent, but gradually another periodic revival of spiritualism and interest in the supernatural led to increasingly impressive, evocative and even shocking horror comics.<\/p>\n

There had been grisly, gory and supernatural stars before, including a pantheon of ghosts, monsters and wizards draped in mystery-man garb and trappings (the Spectre<\/strong>, Mr. Justice<\/strong>, Sgt. Spook<\/strong>, Frankenstein<\/strong>, The Heap<\/strong>, Zatara<\/strong>, Dr. Fate<\/strong> and dozens more), but these had been victims of circumstance: the unknown as a power source for super-heroics. Now the focus shifted to ordinary mortals thrown into a world beyond their ken with the intention of unsettling, not vicariously empowering, the reader.<\/p>\n

Almost every publisher jumped on the increasingly popular bandwagon, with B & I (which became the magical one-man-band Richard E. Hughes\u2019 American Comics Group) launching the first regularly published horror comic in the Autumn of 1948, although Adventures Into the Unknown<\/strong> was technically pipped by Avon who had released an impressive single issue entitled Eerie<\/strong> in January 1947 before launching a regular series in 1951, by which time Classics Illustrated<\/strong> had already long milked the literary end of the medium with adaptations of The Headless Horseman<\/strong>, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/strong> (both 1943), The Hunchback of Notre Dame <\/strong>(1944) and Frankenstein<\/strong> (1945) among others.<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re keeping score this was also the period in which Joe Simon & Jack Kirby identified another \u201cmature market\u201d gap and invented Romance comics with Young Romance<\/strong> #1, (September 1947) but they too saw the sales potential for spooky material, resulting in the seminal Black Magic<\/strong> (launched in 1950) and boldly obscure psychological drama anthology Strange World of Your Dreams<\/strong> (1952).<\/p>\n

The company that would become DC Comics bowed to the inevitable and launched a comparatively straight-laced anthology that nevertheless became one of their longest-running and most influential titles with the December 1951\/January 1952 launch of The House of Mystery<\/strong>. When the hysterical censorship scandal which led to witch-hunting hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency,<\/strong> April- June 1954<\/strong> was curtailed by the industry adopting a castrating straitjacket of self-regulatory rules HoM<\/strong> and its sister title House of Secrets<\/strong> were dialled back into rationalistic, fantasy adventure vehicles. They even briefly became super-hero split-books (with Martian Manhunter<\/strong> and Dial H for Hero<\/strong> in HoM<\/strong> and Eclipso<\/strong> subletting with veteran mystic adventurer Mark Merlin<\/strong> – who latterly became Prince Ra-Man<\/strong> – in HoS<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

However nothing combats censorship better than falling profits and as the 1960s waned the Silver Age superhero boom stalled and crashed, leading to surviving publishers agreeing to loosen their self-imposed restraints against crime and horror comics. Nobody much cared about gangster titles but as the liberalisation coincided with another bump in global interest in all aspects of the Worlds Beyond, resurrection of scary stories was a foregone conclusion and obvious \u201cno-brainer\u201d. Even ultra-wholesome Archie Comics re-entered the field with their Red Circle Thrillers<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

Thus, with absolutely no fanfare at all issue #174, cover dated May-June 1968 presented a bold banner asking Do You Dare Enter The House of Mystery<\/strong>? whilst reprinting a bunch of admittedly excellent short fantastic thrillers originally seen in House of Secrets<\/strong> from those heady days when it was okay to scare kids.<\/p>\n

With covers by Michael William Kaluta, Bernie Wrightson, Luis Dominguez, George Evans, Nick Cardy, Bill Draut, Alfredo Alcala & Gerry Talaoc, this second compilation reprints in moody monochrome the contents of The House of Mystery<\/strong> #212 to 226. The contents span cover-dates March 1973 to August\/September 1974 and begin with \u2018Ever After\u2019<\/em> by unknown scribe and illustrators John Calnan & Murphy Anderson, wherein a ruthless chancer picks the wrong recently bereaved heiress to marry. Michael Fleischer, Maxine Fabe & Alex N. Ni\u00f1o\u2019s \u2018Oh Mom! Oh Dad! You\u2019ve Sent Me Away to Summer Camp\u2026 and I\u2019m So Sad!\u2019<\/em> reveals a strange logic to why the kid in a wheelchair is being picked on by his supposed chums before the issue ends with Jack Oleck & Ruben Yandoc sharing a grim ride with a guilty passenger heading \u2018Halfway to Hell!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

John Albano & Ni\u00f1o\u2019s \u2018Back from the Realm of the Damned\u2019<\/em> opens #213 as a greedy son murders his stepfather and learns an eternally damning lesson. Although fear was key, fun was always the goal and the tales were interspersed with blackly comedic gag pages. Here, Sergio Aragon\u00e9s delivers a bunch of sidesplitters in a \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019 <\/em>segment. The pages – alternated with Page 13<\/em> and \u2018Cain\u2019s Gargoyles\u2019<\/em> – provided painfully punny pranks (originally just by Aragon\u00e9s but eventually supplemented by other cartoonists like John Albano, Lore Shoberg and John Costanza). The feature was popular enough to be spun off into bizarrely outrageous comic book Plop!<\/strong> – but that\u2019s a subject for another day\u2026<\/p>\n

Here the terror is turned up after a married couple\u2019s pleasant drive deposits them on \u2018The Other Side!\u2019<\/em> (Steve Skeates & Romy Gamboa), before Oleck & Adolfo Buylla reveal the fate of a modern day wizard who creates a slave \u2018In His Own Image!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

HoM<\/strong> #214 leads with Oleck & Yandoc\u2019s \u2018Curse of the Werewolf\u2019<\/em>, as a trickster\u2019s scheme founders when he picks the wrong target. Another visit with \u2018Cain\u2019s Gargoyles\u2019 <\/em>courtesy of Aragon\u00e9s, brings us to Mark Evanier, Robert Kanigher & Sonny Trinidad\u2019s tale of a daredevil and a thief who know exactly when they\u2019re going to die thanks to \u2018The Death Clock!\u2019<\/em> A double dose of \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> leads to the tale of pet-hater and her just fate in Skeates & Nestor Redondo\u2019s \u2018The Shaggy Dog.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

In #215, Fleischer, Fabe & Rico Rival\u2019s \u2018The Man Who Wanted Power over Women\u2019<\/em> details how a lonely homely guy consults the wrong witch in his desire to be loved, and George Kashdan & Talaoc see an arrogant sculptor swear \u2018Your Corpse Shall I Carve!\u2019<\/em> in his ruthless search for the perfect muse. A fresh Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> page refreshes the palate for some \u2018Brain Food\u2019<\/em> as Fabe & Fred Carrillo detail how the dumbest kid in school becomes a supergenius\u2026<\/p>\n

Albano & Tony DeZu\u00f1iga\u2019s \u2018Look into My Eyes\u2026 and Kill!\u2019<\/em> opens #216 in the saga of a paroled convict with new powers and old grudges before an anonymous writer joins veteran chill-crafter Bernard Baily visiting the \u2018Graveyard Shift\u2019<\/em> of a mean cab driver getting paid off in kind. A double bill of \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> & \u2018Cain\u2019s Gargoyles\u2019<\/em> takes us back to unhappy spouses as a weary wife makes herself a widow to run the family business herself: a very bad deal from Doug Moench & Abe Ocampo, as proven in \u2018Special Sale: Canned Death \u00bd Off\u2019<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

HoM <\/strong>#217 has Sheldon Mayer & Nestor Redondo reveal the fate of an impressionable young thing who inherit a parcel of desert and learns \u2018This Ghost Town is Haunted!\u2019<\/em>, and E. Nelson Bridwell & Talaoc ask carnival freaks\/murders suspects \u2018Hoodoo You Trust?\u2019<\/em> before John Jacobson, Skeates & Alcala detail how wildlife in a swamp unite against encroaching humans in defence of their \u2018Swamp God!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Fleischer, Russel Carley & Talaoc open #218 with a small midwestern city and its avaricious murderous trash-handling subcontractor getting a well-deserved dose of \u2018The Abominable Ivy!\u2019<\/em> \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> then ushers us into \u2018An Ice Place to Visit!\u2019<\/em> as Fleischer, Carley & Frank Thorne expose a contaminated cold store\/ice-plant and what happens to the boss who hushed up the contagion\u2019s source\u2026<\/p>\n

Bridwell & Bernie Wrightson launch #219 with pun-ishing intro \u2018Welcome to The House of Mystery\u2019<\/em>, after which Fleischer & Alcala take us to Nazi-occupied Tunisia where the invaders systematically succumb to \u2018The Curse of the Crocodile!\u2019<\/em>, whilst a \u2018Pledge to Satan\u2019<\/em> (Mayer & Nestor Redondo) sees a medieval witch-hunter romance and cheat the wrong woman\u2026<\/p>\n

Another \u2018Welcome to The House of Mystery\u2019<\/em> page – by Bridwell & Alcala – kicks off #220 followed by \u2018They Hunt Butterflies, Don\u2019t They?\u2019<\/em> Fleischer & Alcala\u2019s tale sees a greedy guide regret betraying his lepidopterist client before an Aragon\u00e9s-curated visit to \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> takes us to the end with exposure of \u2018The Hunter!\u2019<\/em> who stalks the infernal realms in a macabre safari by Albano & Ni\u00f1o\u2026<\/p>\n

Fleischer & Thorne reunite in #221 (January 1974) as killer clown \u2018Pingo!\u2019<\/em> fails to have the last laugh whilst – after a Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> interlude – Len Wein, Wrightson & Michael William Kaluta magnificently cap off the dread jollity with another motley yarn as \u2018He Who Laughs Last\u2026\u2019<\/em> shows murdering conmen how close a family circus folk are\u2026<\/p>\n

Oleck & Frank (AKA Quico) Redondo open #222 with \u2018Vengeance is Mine!\u2019<\/em>, as a resurrected vampire hunts the family of the man who staked him, making the greatest mistake of his renewed life. It\u2019s counterbalanced by a surreal serial killer yarn as Fleischer & Alcala see justice done and foggy Victorian London relieved on \u2018The Night of the Teddy Bear!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Issue #223 (March and the last monthly issue for some time) launches with a whaling yarn by Wein & Eufronio Reyes Cruz. \u2018Demon from the Deep!\u2019<\/em> details the mutual hatred of a seaman and the kraken he hunts, and Oleck & Ralph Reese\u2019s \u2018Message From Beyond\u2019<\/em> shows why fake spiritualists never prosper. Teamed with wonderful Ramona Fradon, Oleck then riffs on The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/strong> in \u2018Upon Reflection\u2019<\/em> with a tragic twist for today\u2019s readers\u2026<\/p>\n

In an effort to combat rising costs The House of Mystery <\/strong>#224 (April\/May 1974) began an experiment with format and page count. Reduced to a bi-monthly schedule but offering 100-pages (albeit many of them reprints) it started with a \u2018Welcome to The House of Mystery\u2019<\/em> by Joe Orlando, before David Micheline & Frank Robbins followed a criminal conspiracy and deadly killer in \u2018Night Stalker in Sun City\u2019<\/em>. \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> segued into the first reprint with a gothic chiller of forbidden knowledge. \u2018The House of Endless Years\u2019<\/em> by Gerard Conway & Bill Draut originated in House of Secrets <\/strong>#83 (1970).<\/p>\n

All-new \u2018The Deadman\u2019s Lucky Scarf\u2019<\/em> by David Izzo, Fleischer & Alcala is a weird western vignette of cheatin\u2019 and bitin\u2019, followed by \u2018The Reluctant Sorcerer\u2019<\/em>: a Silver Age creature feature of wonderous transformations by Howard Purcell for HoS <\/strong>#49 (1961).<\/p>\n

As superheroes retreated at the end of the sixties those that could retooled as horror titles. The Spectre<\/strong> became a narrator of anthological tales and from #9 (March\/April 1969), Dennis O\u2019Neil & Wrightson\u2019s \u2018Abraca-Doom!\u2019<\/em> sees the Ghostly Guardian attempts to stop a greedy carnival conjurer signing a contract with the Devil. Close behind comes Marv Wolfman, Dick Dillin & Neal Adams\u2019 \u2018The One and Only, Fully Guaranteed, Super-Permanent, 100%?\u2019<\/em> from HoS <\/strong>#82 (November 1969): a darkly comedic tale of domestic bliss and how to get it\u2026<\/p>\n

Originating in HoM <\/strong>#120 (March 1962), \u2018The Gift That Wiped Out Time\u2019<\/em> – illustrated by Mort Meskin & George Roussos sees a thief encounter time-bending beasts before \u2018Sheer Fear!\u2019<\/em> (Mayer & Talaoc) finds a ruthless woman go too far in ferreting out a rival\u2019s secrets\u2026<\/p>\n

An Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> precedes Kashdan & Ni\u00f1o\u2019s \u2018The Claws of Death!\u2019<\/em> with a career soldier paying the ultimate price for telling the truth before a classic mystery hero gets another chance to shine.<\/p>\n

The Phantom Stranger<\/strong> was one of the earliest transitional heroes of the Golden Age of comics, created at the very end of the first superhero boom as readers moved from costumed crimefighters to other genres. A trench-coated, mysterious know-it-all, with shadowed eyes and hat pulled down low, he would appear, debunk a legend or foil a supernatural-seeming plot, and then vanish again.<\/p>\n

He was coolly ambiguous, never revealing whether he was man, mystic or personally paranormal; probably created by John Broome & Carmine Infantino, who produced the first story in Phantom Stranger<\/strong> #1 (August\/September 1952) and most of the others. The 6-issue run also boasted contributions from Jack Miller, Manny Stallman and John Giunta. The last issue was cover-dated June\/July, 1953, after which the character vanished until rebooted at the dusk of the Silver Age.<\/p>\n

Broome & Frank Giacoia\u2019s \u2018Mystery in Miniature!\u2019<\/em> hails from that last issue as the living enigma repels invaders from time, before Skeates & Mike Sekowsky develop a fourth-wall busting \u2018Photo-Finish!\u2019<\/em> for a blackmailer in advance of a closing \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cover-dated June\/July, HoM<\/strong> #225\u2019s \u2018Welcome to The House of Mystery\u2019<\/em> is by Paul Levitz & Wrightson, heralding Oleck & Alcala taking us to Paris in 1789 for a ghostly wizard\/zombie yarn about \u2018The Man Who Died Twice\u2019.<\/em> Bob Rozakis drafts a \u2018Mystery Maze!\u2019<\/em> (bring your own pencil!) and \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> brings us to a treat from House of Secrets<\/strong> #4 (May\/June 1957). The \u2018Master of the Unknown\u2019<\/em> seems destined to take the big cash prize on a TV quiz show\u2026 until the producer deduces his uncanny secret\u2026<\/p>\n

Fleischer & Frank Thorne again expose human depravity in \u2018Fireman, Burn My Child!\u2019<\/em>: a timeless attack on medicine for profit and Aragon\u00e9s\u2019 \u2018Room 13\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> set up a classic comics novelette.<\/p>\n

Illustrated by Don Heck in The Sinister House of Secret Love<\/strong> #1 (October\/November 1971) \u2018The Curse of the McIntyres\u2019<\/em> was the first of a series of book-length graphic epics in the manner of gothic romances like Jane Eyre<\/strong>, before transforming into a more traditional anthology package as Secrets of Sinister House<\/strong> with #5 (June\/July 1972): reducing to the traditional 36-page format with the next issue. The format remained until its cancellation with #18 in June\/July 1974.<\/p>\n

The dark love stories were extra-long affairs like this 25-page period chiller \u2018<\/em>The Curse of the MacIntyres\u2019<\/em> (possibly written by Mary Skrenes?) recounting how recently-bereaved Rachel<\/em> lost her scientist father and fell under the guardianship of her cousin Blair<\/em>. Moving to his remote Scottish castle she befriends Blair\u2019s son Jamie<\/em> but can\u2019t warm to physically stunted cousin Alfie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As days and weeks pass, she becomes increasingly disturbed by the odd household and the family\u2019s obsessive interest in \u201cmutations\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018See No Evil\u2019<\/em> by Oleck & Ni\u00f1o depicts the fate of a death row inmate who sells his soul before the 1950s Man in Black pops back to expose the incredible secret of \u2018The Hairy Shadows\u2019<\/em> (by Broome, Anderson & Joe Giella from Phantom Stranger <\/strong>#4) whilst The Spectre<\/strong> #9 repeats a sinister \u2018Shadow Show\u2019<\/em> by Mark Hanerfeld & Jack Sparling.<\/p>\n

David Kasakove, Kashdan & (ER) Cruz then finish up with a tale of two very different brothers in Halloween set shocker \u2018This One\u2019ll Scare You to Death!\u2019<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

Concluding this classic chiller compendium are the cracking contents of The House of Mystery <\/strong>#226 (August\/September) with Levitz & Pat Broderick\u2019s \u2018Welcome to The House of Mystery\u2019<\/em> escorting us into Oleck & Alcala\u2019s \u2018Garden of Evil\u2019<\/em>, as mismatched Mace<\/em> and Myra<\/em> find far more welcoming worlds – and mates – inside a painting\u2026<\/p>\n

After a pause in \u2018Room 13\u2019<\/em> Martin Pasko & Robbins reveal why – on a teenager\u2019s wedding day – \u2018Teddy Doesn\u2019t Seem to Smile Anymore!\u2019<\/em> A writer unknown & Leonard Starr meddle with \u2018The Devil\u2019s Chessboard\u2019<\/em> as logic faces magic from HoM <\/strong>#12 (March 1953). Phantom Stranger <\/strong>#5 then offers \u2018The Living Nightmare!\u2019<\/em> (Broome Infantino & Bernard Sachs).<\/p>\n

Oleck & Nestor Redondo detail a period tale of monster children and body-swapping in \u2018Monster in the House\u2019<\/em>, and Wolfman & Wrightson return with prophetic vignette \u2018Scared to Life\u2019<\/em> from HoM <\/strong>#180, whilst from HoM <\/strong>#74 we visit \u2018The School for Sorcerers\u2019<\/em> (illustrated by Bill Ely). Michael J. Pellowski, Kanigher & Jess M. Jodloman, reveal \u2018The Perfect Mate\u2019<\/em> (for Balkan nobility!) in anticipation of a factual(ish) \u2018Cain\u2019s Gargoyles\u2019<\/em> by Levitz & Boderick and another vintage thriller. Limned by Curt Swan & George Klein from HoM <\/strong>#10, \u2018The Wishes of Doom!\u2019<\/em> treads in Monkey\u2019s Paw<\/strong> territory whilst Ely\u2019s \u2018The Haunted Melody\u2019<\/em> (HoM <\/strong>#58, January 1957) sees a street musician squander an incredible gift\u2026<\/p>\n

Levitz & Broderick provide plans and diagrams when asking \u2018Do You Dare Enter The House of Mystery?\u2019<\/em> and one last Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Cain\u2019s Game Room\u2019<\/em> leads to final terror tale \u2018Out of This World\u2019<\/em> as Oleck & Talaoc reaffirm the link between Devil and Rock & Roll. Finally you can regain some sedate equilibrium with Rozakis word-search \u2018Hidden in the House!\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

These fright-fables captivated the reading public and comics critics alike when they first appeared and it\u2019s no exaggeration to posit that they probably saved the company during the dire downward sales spiral of the 1970s. Now their blend of sinister mirth and classical suspense situations can most usually be seen in such series as Goosebumps<\/strong><\/a>, and other kid-centred fare, but if you crave beautifully realised, largely splatter-free sagas of tension and imagination, not to mention a huge supply of bad-taste, kid-friendly creepy cartooning, book into The House of Mystery<\/strong>\u2026
\n\u00a9 1973-1974, 2009 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Orlando, Michael Fleischer, Maxine Fabe, Jack Oleck, John Albano, Sergio Aragon\u00e9s, Steve Skeates, Mark Evanier, Robert Kanigher, George Kashdan, Doug Moench, Sheldon Mayer, E. Nelson Bridwell, John Jacobson, David Micheline, Gerard Conway, David Izzo, Dennis O\u2019Neil, Marv Wolfman, John Broome, Paul Levitz, Bob Rozakis, Mark Hanerfeld, David Kasakove, Michael J. Pellowski, Martin Pasko, … <\/p>\n

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