{"id":30807,"date":"2024-10-28T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30807"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:06:53","slug":"showcase-presents-the-house-of-secrets-volume-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/10\/28\/showcase-presents-the-house-of-secrets-volume-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcase Presents The House of Secrets volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Mike Friedrich<\/strong>, Gerry Conway<\/strong>, Marv Wolfman<\/strong>, Len Wein<\/strong>, Steve Skeates<\/strong>, Robert Kanigher<\/strong>, Raymond Marais<\/strong>, Sam Glanzman<\/strong>, Jack Kirby<\/strong>, Mark Evanier<\/strong>, Jack Oleck<\/strong>, Mary Skrenes<\/strong> (as Virgil North<\/strong>), Jerry Grandenetti<\/strong>, Bill Draut<\/strong>, Werner Roth<\/strong>, Jack Sparling<\/strong>, Dick Giordano<\/strong>, Dick Dillin<\/strong>, Neal Adams<\/strong>, Sid Greene<\/strong>, Alex Toth<\/strong>, Mike Royer<\/strong>, Mike Peppe<\/strong>, Don Heck<\/strong>, Wally Wood<\/strong>, Ralph Reese<\/strong>, John Costanza<\/strong>, Gil Kane<\/strong>, George Tuska<\/strong>, Gray Morrow<\/strong>, Ross Andru<\/strong> & Mike Esposito<\/strong>, Michael Wm. Kaluta<\/strong>, Rich Buckler<\/strong>, Bernie Wrightson<\/strong>, Al Weiss<\/strong>, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, Jim Aparo<\/strong>, Sergio Aragon\u00e9s<\/strong>, Nestor Redondo<\/strong>, Jos\u00e9<\/strong> Delbo<\/strong>, Adolfo Buylla<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-4012-1818-8 (TPB)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Splendid Slice<\/strong> of Spectral Shock & Awe… 9<\/strong>\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the time for sweet indulgence, shocking over-eating and spooky stories, so let\u2019s pay a visit to a much-neglected old favourite…<\/p>\n

American comic books started slowly until the creation of superheroes unleashed a torrent of creative imitation and invented a new genre. Implacably vested in the Second World War, the Overman swept all before him (and very occasionally her or it) until the troops came home and the more traditional genres resurfaced and eventually supplanted the Fights \u2018n\u2019 Tights crowd. Although new kids kept on buying, much of the previous generation of consumers also retained their four-colour habit but increasingly sought older themes in the reading matter. The war years altered the psychological landscape of the world 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.<\/p>\n

As well as Westerns, War and Crime comics, celebrity tie-ins, madcap escapist comedy and anthropomorphic funny animal features were immediately resurgent, but gradually another of the cyclical revivals of spiritualism and public fascination with all things occult, eldritch and arcane led to them being outshone and outsold by a wave of increasingly impressive, evocative and 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>, Sargon the Sorcerer<\/strong>, Zatara<\/strong>, Monako<\/strong>, Zambini the Miracle Man<\/strong>, Kardak the Mystic<\/strong>, Dr. Fate<\/strong> and dozens more), but these had been victims of circumstance: The Unknown as a \u201cnarrativium\u201d power source for super-heroics.<\/p>\n

Now the focus shifted to ordinary mortals thrown into a world beyond their ken with the intention of unsettling, not vicariously empowering, the reader. Almost every publisher jumped on the increasingly popular bandwagon, with B & I (which became magical one-man-band Richard E. Hughes\u2019 American Comics Group) launching the first regularly published horror comic in the Autumn of 1948. Technically though, Adventures Into the Unknown<\/strong> was actually pipped by Avon who had released an impressive single issue entitled Eerie<\/strong> in January 1947 before finally committing to a regular series in 1951.<\/p>\n

By this time, and following the filmic horror heyday of Universal Pictures\u2019 fright films franchises, worthy comic book monolith 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 by inventing the Romance comic (Young Romance<\/strong> #1, cover-dated September 1947) but they too saw the sales potential for macabre mood material, resulting in seminal anthologies Black Magic<\/strong> (launched in 1950) and boldly obscure psychological drama vehicle Strange World of Your Dreams<\/strong> (1952).<\/p>\n

Around that time the staid cautious company that would become DC Comics bowed to the commercial inevitable and launched a comparatively straightlaced anthology that became one of their longest-running and most influential titles with the December 1951\/January 1952 opening of The House of Mystery<\/strong>. When the hysterical censorship scandal which led to witch-hunting hearings was at its height, the mobs with pitchforks furore was adroitly curtailed by the industry adopting a castrating straitjacket of self-regulatory rules.<\/p>\n

Horror titles produced under the aegis of the Comics Code Authority were sanitised, anodyne affairs in terms of Shock and Gore. However, since the appetite for suspenseful short stories was still high, in 1956 National introduced sister title House of Secrets <\/strong>which debuted with a November\/December cover-date. Plots were dialled back into superbly illustrated, rationalistic, fantasy-adventure vehicles which would dominate the market until the 1960s when superheroes (which had begun sneaking back in 1956 after Julius Schwartz began the Silver Age of comics by reintroducing T<\/strong>he Flash<\/strong> in Showcase<\/strong> #4), finally overtook them.<\/p>\n

Green Lantern<\/strong>, Hawkman<\/strong>, T<\/strong>he Atom<\/strong> and a slew of other costumed cavorters generated a gaudy global bubble of masked mavens which even forced the dedicated anthology suspense titles to transform into super-character split-books, with Martian Manhunter and Dial H for Hero<\/strong> monopolising House of Mystery<\/strong> whilst Mark Merlin<\/strong> – later Prince Ra-Man<\/em> – sharing space with Eclipso<\/strong> in House of Secrets<\/strong>. When caped crusader craziness peaked and popped, Secrets<\/strong> was one of the first casualties, folding with #80, the September\/October 1966 issue.<\/p>\n

However, nothing combats censorship better than falling profits and by the end of the 1960s the Silver Age superhero boom was over, with many titles gone and some of the industry\u2019s most prestigious series circling the drain…<\/p>\n

This real-world Crisis prompted surviving publishers to loosen the self-imposed restraints against crime and horror comics. Nobody much cared about gangster titles at that juncture, but as the liberalisation coincided with another bump in public interest in all aspects of the Worlds Beyond, the resurrection of scary stories was a foregone conclusion and obvious no-brainer…<\/p>\n

Even ultra-wholesome Archie Comics re-entered the field with a rather tasty line of Red Circle <\/strong>Chillers: a minor substrate they regularly return to with style and potency to this day.<\/p>\n

Thus, with absolutely no fanfare at all, House of Secrets<\/strong> returned with issue #81 (August\/ September 1969) just as big sister The House of Mystery <\/strong>had done a year previously. Under a bold banner declaiming \u201cThere\u2019s No Escape From…<\/em> The House of Secrets<\/em>\u201d, writer Mike Friedrich, Jerry Grandenetti & George Roussos introduced a ramshackle, sentient old pile in \u2018Don\u2019t Move It!\u2019<\/em>, after which Bill Draut limned the introduction of bumbling caretaker Abel <\/strong>(with a guest-shot by his murderous older brother Cain<\/strong> from HoM<\/strong>) in eponymous intro set-up fable \u2018House of Secrets\u2019<\/em>. The portly porter then kicked off his storytelling career with Gerry Conway & Jack Sparling yarn \u2018Aaron Philip\u2019s<\/em> Photo Finish!\u2019<\/em> before the inaugural issue was put to bed with a Draut limned \u2018Epilogue\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

HoS<\/strong> #82 was a largely Conway scripted affair as Draut drew both \u2018<\/em>Welcome to the House of Secrets\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Epilogue\u2019<\/em>, whilst cinema shocker \u2018Realer Than Real\u2019<\/em> was illustrated by Werner Roth & Vince Colletta. Written by Marv Wolfman, \u2018Sudden Madness\u2019<\/em> delivered a short sci fi saga via the brush of Dick Giordano, ere Conway regaled us with \u2018The Little Old Winemaker\u2019 <\/em>(Sparling art): a salutary tale of murder and revenge. Wolfman – realised by Dick Dillin & Neal Adams – wowed again with \u2018The One and Only, Fully-Guaranteed, Super-Permanent, 100%\u2019<\/em>: a darkly comedic tale of domestic bliss and how to get it…<\/p>\n

After Draut & Giordano\u2019s \u2018<\/em>Welcome to the House of Secrets<\/em>\u2018 piece, superstar Alex Toth made his modern HoS<\/strong> debut with Wolfman-written fantasy \u2018The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of\u2019<\/em>, and Mikes Royer & Peppe visualised sinister love-story \u2018Bigger Than a Breadbox\u2019 <\/em>before Conway & Draut revived gothic menace for a chilling fable \u2018The House of Endless Years\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Conway & Draut maintained the light-hearted bracketing of the stories prior to #84, properly beginning with \u2018If I Had but World Enough and Time\u2019<\/em> (Len Wein, Dillin & Peppe), a cautionary tale about too much TV. Tensions grow with Wolfman & Sid Greene\u2019s warning against wagering in \u2018Double or Nothing!\u2019<\/em> and Steve Skeates, Sparling & Jack Abel\u2019s utterly manic parable of greed \u2018The Unbelievable! The Unexplained!\u2019<\/em>, before Wein & Sparling mess with our dreams in \u2018If I Should Die before I Wake…\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Cain & Abel acrimoniously open HoS<\/strong> #85, after which Wein & Don Heck disclose what happens to some \u2018People Who Live in Glass Houses…\u2019<\/em> whilst art-legend Ralph Reese limns Wein\u2019s daftly ironic \u2018Reggie Rabbit, Heathcliffe Hog, Archibald Aardvark, J. Benson Baboon and Bertram the Dancing Frog\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

John Costanza contributed a comedy page entitled \u2018House of Wacks\u2019 <\/em>and Conway, Gil Kane & Adams herald the upcoming age of slick and seductive barbarian fantasy with gloriously vivid and vital \u2018Second Chance\u2019<\/em>. Issue #86 featured the eerily seductive \u2018Strain\u2019<\/em> with art by George Tuska, powerful prose puzzler \u2018The Golden Tower of the Sun\u2019 – <\/em>written by Conway with illustrations from Gray Morrow – after which the writer and Draut tug heartstrings and stun senses in the moving, moody madness of \u2018The Ballad of Little Joe\u2019<\/em>. The issue ends with another episode of peripatetic, post-apocalyptic, ironic occasional series \u2018The Day after Doomsday\u2019<\/em>, courtesy of Wein & Sparling.<\/p>\n

Chatty introductions and interludes with Abel were gradually diminishing to make way for longer stories and experimental episodes like #87\u2019s \u2018And in the Darkness…<\/em> Light\u2019<\/em>; subdivided into \u2018Death Has Marble Lips!\u2019<\/em>, a sculptural shocker by Robert Kanigher, Dillin & Giordano; sinister sci fi scenario \u2018The Man\u2019<\/em> by Wolfman, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, and excellent weird pulps pastiche \u2018The Coming of Ghaglan\u2019<\/em> by Raymond Marais & talented newcomer Michael William Kaluta. Much the same was #88\u2019s dread duo \u2018The Morning Ghost\u2019 <\/em>(Wolfman, Dillin & Frank Giacoia) and \u2018Eyesore!\u2019<\/em> by Conway & Draut.<\/p>\n

The majority of covers were the magnificent work of Neal Adams but HoS <\/strong>#89 sports a rare and surprisingly effective tonal image by Irv Novick (albeit attributed here to Gray Morrow): a gothic romance special with period thrillers \u2018Where Dead Men Walk!\u2019<\/em> – drawn by Morrow – and \u2018A Taste of Dark Fire!\u2019<\/em> from Conway & Heck. This latter tale debuted Victorian devil-busting duo Father John Christian<\/em> & Rabbi Samuel Shulman<\/em>, who appeared far too infrequently in succeeding years (see also Showcase Presents the Phantom Stranger<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Tuska illustrated Skeates\u2019 futuristic thriller \u2018The Distant Dome\u2019<\/em> in #90, whilst Wolfman, Rich Buckler & Adams described the short, sharp lives of \u2018The Symbionts\u2019<\/em>, after which Mike Friedrich & Morrow end the SF extravaganza with the perplexing tale of \u2018Jedediah!\u2019 <\/em>HoS<\/strong> #91 was almost entirely Conway scripted, leading with a South American revolutionary rollercoaster \u2018The Eagle\u2019s Talon!\u2019<\/em>, illustrated by Grandenetti & Wally Wood. Sparling limned faux-factual feature \u2018Realm of the Mystics\u2019<\/em>, prior to writer\/artist Sam Glanzman producing a potent parable of alienation in \u2018Please, Don\u2019t Cry Johnny!\u2019<\/em> before Murphy Anderson wrapped up the wonderment with Conway\u2019s deadly doppelganger drama \u2018There are Two of Me…<\/em> and One Must Die!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Issue #92 was one of those rare moments in comics when all factors are in perfect alignment for a major breakthrough. Cover-dated June\/July 1971, the 12th<\/sup> anthological issue of House of Secrets<\/strong> cemented the genre into place as industry leader as Len Wein & artist Bernie Wrightson produced a throwaway thriller set at the turn of the 19th<\/sup> century. Here, gentleman scientist Alex Olsen<\/em> is murdered by his best friend and his body dumped in a swamp. Years later, his beloved bride – now the unsuspecting wife of the murderer – is stalked by a shambling, disgusting beast seemingly composed of mud and muck…<\/p>\n

\u2018Swamp Thing\u2019<\/em> was cover-featured – also eerily illustrated by Wrightson – striking an instant and sustained chord with the buying public. It was the bestselling DC comic of that month and reader response was fervent and persistent. By all accounts, the only reason there wasn\u2019t an immediate sequel or spin-off was that the creative team didn\u2019t want to produce one.<\/p>\n

Eventually, however, bowing to interminable pressure, and with the sensible notion of transplanting the concept to contemporary America, the first issue of Swamp Thing<\/strong> appeared on newsstands in the spring of 1972. It was an instant hit and immortal classic.<\/p>\n

The remaining pages in that groundbreaking HoS<\/strong> issue weren\u2019t bad either, with Jack Kirby & Mark Evanier scripting psychodrama \u2018After I Die\u2019 <\/em>for old Prize\/Crestwood Comics stablemate Draut to illustrate, whilst \u2018It\u2019s Better to Give…\u2019 <\/em>– by Virgil North (AKA Mary Skrenes) provided an early chance for Al Weiss & Tony DeZu\u00f1iga to strut their superbly engaging artistic stuff. The issue ends with Conway & Dillin\u2019s sudden shocker \u2018Trick or Treat\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

House of Secrets<\/strong> #93 (August\/September 1971) saw the title expand from 32 to 52 pages – as did all DC\u2019s titles for the next couple of years – opening access to a magnificent hoard of new material wedded to the best of their prodigious archives for an appreciative, impressionable audience. Jim Aparo made his HoS<\/strong> debut in Skeates-scripted spook-fest \u2018Lonely in Death\u2019<\/em>, and so did macabre cartoonist Sergio Aragon\u00e9s in \u2018Abel\u2019s Fables\u2019<\/em>, after which the reprint bonanza began with \u2018The Curse of the Cat\u2019s Cradle\u2019 <\/em>(originally seen in My Greatest Adventure<\/strong> #85) stupendously depicted by Alex Toth.<\/p>\n

Jack Abel\u2019s \u2018Nightmare\u2019<\/em> was followed by golden oldie \u2018The Beast from the Box\u2019<\/em> – courtesy of Nick Cardy and House of Mystery<\/strong> #24 – after which Lore (Shoberg) contributed a page of \u2018Abel\u2019s Fables\u2019<\/em> before the entertainment ended with John Albano & DeZu\u00f1iga\u2019s chilling \u2018Never Kill a Witch\u2019s Son!\u2019<\/em> rounding out the fearsome fun in period style. HoS<\/strong> #94 began by exposing \u2018The Man with My Face\u2019<\/em> (Sparling art) and Wein & DeZu\u00f1iga\u2019s \u2018Hyde…<\/em> and Go Seek!\u2019<\/em>, whilst \u2018The Day Nobody Died\u2019<\/em> (George Roussos; Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> #9) and \u2018Track of the Invisible Beast!\u2019<\/em> (Toth from HoM<\/strong> #109) provided vintage voltage before another Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Abel\u2019s Fables\u2019<\/em> and \u2018A Bottle of Incense…<\/em> a Whiff of the Past!\u2019<\/em> by Francis (Gerry Conway) Bushmaster, Weiss & Wrightson closed proceedings in devilishly high style.<\/p>\n

Albano & Heck showed domesticity wasn\u2019t pretty in \u2018Creature…\u2019<\/em> before everybody got a nasty case of chills in \u2018And Thing That Go Bump in the Night!\u2019<\/em> (credited here to Sparling but probably Tuska & Win Mortimer) before \u2018The Last Sorcerer\u2019<\/em> (Bernard Baily from HoM <\/strong>#69) and \u2018The Phantom of the Flames!\u2019<\/em> – a rare DC illustration job for magnificent Marvel Mainstay Joe Maneely from HoM<\/strong> #71. The dark dramas close with Jack Oleck & Nestor Redondo\u2019s \u2018The Bride of Death\u2019<\/em>. HoS<\/strong> #95 also included a couple of Lore\u2019s \u2018Abel\u2019s Fables\u2019,<\/em> a Sparling \u2018Realm of the Mystics\u2019 <\/em>and a Wein\/Sparling \u2018Day after Doomsday\u2019<\/em> vignette.<\/p>\n

Oleck & Draut\u2019s \u2018World for a Witch\u2019<\/em> opened the next peril-packed issue, followed by a high-tension, high-tech Toth reprint \u2018The Great Dimensional Brain Swap\u2019<\/em> (HoS <\/strong>#48) and Wein, Dillin & Jack Abel\u2019s \u2018Be it Ever So Humble…<\/em>\u2019<\/em> whilst Oleck & Wood\u2019s \u2018The Monster\u2019<\/em> describes a different kind of horror. \u2018The Indestructible Man\u2019 <\/em>(by master-draughtsman Bill Ely, originally in Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> #12) closes the show. Also lurking within this issue is another agonisingly funny Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Abel\u2019s Fables\u2019<\/em> fun frolic…<\/p>\n

The penultimate issue in this sparkling collection – incomprehensibly still the only way to affordably access these chilling classics – leads with Sparling\u2019s classical creep-show \u2018The Curse of Morby Castle\u2019<\/em> after which Skeates & Aparo return to \u2018Divide and Murder\u2019<\/em> before Aragon\u00e9s strikes again in \u2018Abel\u2019s Fables\u2019<\/em>. Blasts from the past \u2018The Tomb of Ramfis\u2019<\/em> (HoM <\/strong>#59, by the fabulous John Prentice) and \u2018Dead Man\u2019s Diary\u2019<\/em> (drawn by Ralph Mayo for HoM<\/strong> #46) are demarcated by another trenchant Wein\/Sparling \u2018Day after Doomsday\u2019<\/em>, whilst Jos\u00e9 Delbo delineates manic monster-fest \u2018Domain of the Damned\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The last issue in this magnificent monochrome compendium opens with a glorious intro page from Mark Hanerfeld & Kaluta, after which the artist entrancingly illustrates Albano\u2019s tough-as-nails-thriller \u2018Born Losers\u2019 <\/em>and Toth illuminates \u2018Secret Hero of Center City\u2019<\/em> (originally seen in HoM <\/strong>#120). After one last Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Abel\u2019s Fables\u2019, <\/em>Wein and Mikes Royer & Peppe reveal why \u2018The Night Train Doesn\u2019t Stop Here A<\/em>nymore!\u2019<\/em>, and another John Prentice treat is served up in \u2018The Fatal Superstition\u2019<\/em> (HoM <\/strong>#35) before the legendary Adolfo Buylla celebrates the end of the affair in grisly fashion with \u2018Happy Birthday, Herman!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

These terror-tales captivated the reading public and critics alike when they first appeared and it\u2019s no stretch to posit that they probably saved DC during one of the toughest downturns in comics publishing history. Now their blend of sinister mirth, classic horror scenarios and suspense set-pieces can most familiarly be seen in such children\u2019s series as Goosebumps<\/strong>, Horrible Histories<\/strong> and so many latterday imitators. If you crave beautifully realised, tastefully gore-light and splatter-free sagas of mystery and imagination, not to mention a huge supply of bad-taste, kid-friendly cartoon chills, book your stay at the House of Secrets<\/strong> as soon as you possibly can…<\/p>\n

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\n\u00a9 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 2008 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mike Friedrich, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Steve Skeates, Robert Kanigher, Raymond Marais, Sam Glanzman, Jack Kirby, Mark Evanier, Jack Oleck, Mary Skrenes (as Virgil North), Jerry Grandenetti, Bill Draut, Werner Roth, Jack Sparling, Dick Giordano, Dick Dillin, Neal Adams, Sid Greene, Alex Toth, Mike Royer, Mike Peppe, Don Heck, Wally Wood, Ralph … <\/p>\n

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