{"id":31991,"date":"2025-02-11T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=31991"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:56:18","slug":"showcase-presents-secrets-of-sinister-house-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/02\/11\/showcase-presents-secrets-of-sinister-house-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcase Presents Secrets of Sinister House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Mary Skrenes<\/strong>, Len Wein<\/strong>, Jack Oleck<\/strong>, Frank Robbins<\/strong>, Michael Fleischer<\/strong>, Mary DeZu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, Lynn Marron<\/strong>, Sheldon Mayer<\/strong>, Joe Orlando<\/strong>, John Albano<\/strong>, Robert Kanigher<\/strong>, Maxene Fabe<\/strong>, E. Nelson Bridwell<\/strong>, Steve Skeates<\/strong>, John Jacobson<\/strong>, Fred Wolfe<\/strong>, George Kashdan<\/strong>, Leo Dorfman<\/strong>, Dave Wood<\/strong>, Don Heck<\/strong>, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, Alex Toth<\/strong>, Mike Sekowsky<\/strong>, Jack Sparling<\/strong>, John Calnan<\/strong>, Vince Colletta<\/strong>, Frank Giacoia<\/strong>, Doug Wildey<\/strong>, Dick Giordano<\/strong>, Michael William Kaluta<\/strong>, Bill Draut<\/strong>, Nestor Redondo<\/strong>, Alfredo Alcala<\/strong>, Alex Ni\u00f1o<\/strong>, Sergio Aragon\u00e9s<\/strong>, June Lofamia<\/strong>, Sam Glanzman<\/strong>, <\/em>Lore Shoberg<\/strong>, Ruben Yandoc<\/strong>, Abe Ocampo<\/strong>, Rico Rival<\/strong>, Gerry Taloac<\/strong>, Larry Hama<\/strong>, Neal Adams<\/strong>, Rich Buckler<\/strong>, Jess Jodloman<\/strong>, Wayne Howard<\/strong>, Romy Gamboa<\/strong>, Don Perlin<\/strong>, Ed Ramos<\/strong>, Mar Amongo<\/strong>, Vicente Alc\u00e1zar<\/strong>, Ernie Chan<\/strong>, Murphy Anderson<\/strong>, Gil Kane<\/strong>, Sy Barry<\/strong>, Jerry Grandenetti<\/strong>, Ramona Fradon<\/strong>, Howard Chaykin<\/strong>, Win Mortimer<\/strong>, Angel B. Luna<\/strong>, Bernard Sachs <\/strong>& various (DC Comics)<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-4012-2626-8 (TPB)<\/p>\n

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

US comic books just idled along rather slowly until the invention of Superman<\/strong> provided a flamboyant and dynamic new genre, subsequently unleashing a torrent of creative imitation and imaginative generation for a suddenly thriving and voracious new entertainment model. Implacably vested in World War II, these Overmen swept all before them until the troops came home. As the decade closed, however, traditional literary themes and conventional heroes resurfaced and eventually supplanted the Fights \u2018n\u2019 Tights crowd.<\/p>\n

Whilst a new generation of kids began buying and collecting, many of the first fans also retained their four-colour habit but increasingly sought more mature themes in their reading matter. The war years had irrevocably altered the psychological landscape of the readership 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, theatre and prose as well as comics) increasingly reflected this. As well as western, war and crime comics, celebrity tie-ins, madcap\/escapist comedy and anthropomorphic funny animal features were immediately resurgent, before another cyclical revival of spiritualism and a public fascination with the arcane led to a wave of impressive, evocative, shockingly addictive horror comics.<\/p>\n

There had been grisly, gory supernatural stars before, including a pantheon of ghosts, wizards and monsters draped in mystery man trappings (The Spectre<\/strong>, Mr. Justice<\/strong>, Dr. Fate<\/strong>, Sgt. Spook<\/strong>, Frankenstein<\/strong>, The Heap<\/strong>, Sargon the Sorcerer<\/strong>, Zatara<\/strong>, Zambini the Miracle Man<\/strong>, Kardak the Mystic <\/strong>and dozens more), but these had been victims of circumstance: \u201cthe Unknown\u201d as a power source for superheroics. Now 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 the magical one-man-band Richard E. Hughes\u2019 American Comics Group) launching the first regularly published horror comic in the Autumn of 1948. Technically their Adventures Into the Unknown<\/strong> was pipped by Avon. The book and comics publisher had released an impressive one-shot entitled Eerie<\/strong> in January 1947 but didn\u2019t follow-up with a regular series until 1951, whilst Classics Illustrated<\/strong> had already exhausted the literary end of the medium with child-friendly comics 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 the genre of romance comics with Young Romance<\/strong> #1 (September 1947). They too realised the sales potential of spooky material, resulting in their seminal Black Magic<\/strong> title – launched in 1950 – and boldly obscure psychological drama anthology Strange World of Your Dreams<\/strong> (1952). The company that became DC Comics bowed to the inevitable and launched a comparatively straight-laced anthology that nevertheless became one of their longest-running, most influential titles with the launch of The House of Mystery<\/strong> (cover dated December 1951\/January 1952).<\/p>\n

After the hysterical censorship debate which led to witch-hunting Senate hearings in the early 1950s was curtailed by the industry adopting a castrating straitjacket of self-regulation, titles produced under the aegis of the Comics Code Authority were sanitised and anodyne affairs in terms of Shock and Gore, but the audience\u2019s appetite for suspense was still high and in 1956 National introduced sister titles Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> and House of Secrets<\/strong>. Stories were dialled back from uncanny spooky phenomena yarns to always marvellously illustrated, rationalistic fantasy adventure vehicles and – eventually – straight monster-busting Sci Fi tales that dominated the market until the 1960s. That\u2019s when superheroes (who had begun to revive after Julius Schwartz began the Silver Age of comics by reintroducing The Flash<\/strong> in Showcase<\/strong> #4) finally overtook them.<\/p>\n

Green Lantern<\/strong>, Hawkman<\/strong>, The Atom<\/strong> and a growing coterie of costumed cavorters generated a gaudy global bubble of masked mavens which forced even dedicated anthology suspense titles to transform into super-character books. Even ACG slipped tights and masks onto its spooky stars. When the caped crusader craziness peaked and popped, superheroes began dropping like Kryptonite-gassed flies. However nothing combats censorship better than falling profits and, at the end of the 1960s with the cape-and-cowl boom over and some of the industry\u2019s most prestigious series circling the drain, the surviving publishers of the field agreed on revising the Comics Code, loosening their self-imposed restraints against crime and horror comics.<\/p>\n

Nobody much cared about gangster titles but, as the liberalisation coincided with yet another bump in popularity for supernatural entertainments, the resurrection of scary stories was a foregone conclusion. Even ultra-wholesome Archie Comics re-entered the field with their rather tasty line of Red Circle Chillers…<\/p>\n

Thus, with absolutely no fanfare at all spooky comics came back to quickly dominate the American funnybook market for more than half a decade. DC led the pack, converting The House of Mystery <\/strong>and Tales of the Unexpected <\/strong>into mystery-suspense anthologies in 1968 before resurrecting House of Secrets<\/strong> a year earlier. However horror wasn\u2019t the only classic genre experiencing renewed interest. Westerns, war, adventure and love story comics also reappeared and – probably influenced by the overwhelming success of the supernatural TV soap Dark Shadows<\/strong> – the industry mixed classic idioms to invent gothic horror romances. The fad generated Haunted Love<\/strong> from Charlton, Atlas\/Seaboard\u2019s Gothic Romances<\/strong> from whilst undisputed industry leader National\/DC opened Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love<\/strong> and Sinister House of Secret Love.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cover-dated October\/November 1971, 52-page Sinister House of Secret Love<\/strong> #1 offered book-length graphic epics in the manner of gothic romances like Jane Eyre<\/strong> before reforming into a more traditional anthology package Secrets of Sinister House<\/strong> with #5 (June\/July 1972) and reducing to the traditional 36-page package with the next issue. That format remained until cancellation with #18 (June\/July 1974). In keeping with the novel enterprise, the dark, doomed love stories were extra-long affairs such as the 25-page Victorian period chiller \u2018The Curse of the MacIntyres\u2019<\/em> (by Mary Skrenes & Don Heck) headlining issue #1, 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 readily befriended Blair\u2019s son Jamie<\/em> but could not warm to the little person (they say \u201cdwarf\u201d) cousin Alfie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As weeks passed however she becomes increasingly disturbed by the odd household and the family\u2019s obsessive interest in \u201cmutations\u201d…<\/p>\n

There was room for a short back-up and the Jane Eyre<\/strong> pastiche is nicely balanced by a contemporary yarn of hippies in love. Undying passion and ghostly reincarnation in \u2018A Night to Remember – A Day to Forget!\u2019<\/em> by an unknown author, effectively illustrated by John Calnan & Vince Colletta.<\/p>\n

Editor Joe Orlando and scripter Len Wein closely collaborated on the Tony DeZu\u00f1iga limned \u2018To Wed the Devil\u2019<\/em> in #2, wherein beautiful, innocent Sarah<\/em> returns to her father\u2019s estate to discover the place a hotbed of Satanism where all the old servants indulge in black magic rituals. Moreover her father is forcing her to abandon true love Justin<\/em> and wed the appalling and terrifying Baron Luther Dumont of Bohemia<\/em> to settle an outstanding debt. This grim bodice-ripper tale saw the return of 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 House of Secrets<\/a><\/strong> vol. 1 and Showcase Presents the Phantom Stranger<\/a><\/strong> vol. 2) whose last-minute ministrations saved the day, quelled an unchecked evil and of course provided the obligatory Happy Ever After…<\/p>\n

SHoSL<\/strong> #3 was the most impressive of these early issues and \u2018Bride of the Falcon\u2019<\/em> was a visual feast from Alex Toth, Frank Giacoia & Doug Wildey, with author Frank Robbins detailing a thoroughly modern mystery. American proofreader Kathy Harwood<\/em> answers a Lonely Hearts ad in her own magazine and soon finds herself in Venice, Italy, engaged and trapped on the isolated Isola Tranquillo<\/em> with tragic, scarred, lovelorn and heartsick Count Lorenzo Di Falco<\/em> – and his paralysed mother. Something isn\u2019t right, though, and as her wedding day approaches, a series of inexplicable deaths occurs. Soon, the romance-obsessed dreamer realises she is in deadly danger. Luckily, poor but handsome gondolier Roberto<\/em> has constantly refused her demands that he stop bothering her. The gripping psychological thriller is supplemented by Michael Fleischer\u2019s prose ghostly romance \u2018Will I Ever See You Again\u2019<\/em> as illustrated by Jack Sparling…<\/p>\n

In #4, \u2018Kiss of the Serpent\u2019<\/em> (Mary DeZu\u00f1iga, Michael Fleisher & Tony DeZu\u00f1iga) takes us to Bombay (you can call it Mumbai if you\u2019re feeling modern and PC) where freshly orphaned teacher Michelle Harlinson<\/em> has taken a job arranged by her uncle Paul<\/em>. Dazed by loss and the sheer exoticism of India, she is drawn into a terrible vendetta between her gorgeous wealthy employer Rabin Singh<\/em> and his jealous brother Jawah<\/em>. But as the foolish American finds herself falling under the seductive sway of Rabin, she uncovers a history of murder and macabre snake-worship that can only end in more death and heartbreak…<\/p>\n

With the next extra-sized issue (cover-dated June\/July 1972) the title became Secrets of Sinister House<\/strong> wherein Lynn Marron, Fleisher, Mike Sekowsky & Dick Giordano produced the eerie \u2018Death at Castle Dunbar\u2019<\/em> with modern American Miss Mike Hollis<\/em> invited to the desolate Scottish manse to complete a history of Clan Dunbar. However, most of the family and staff are inexplicably hostile, despite being unaware of the writer\u2019s true agenda…<\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s sister Valerie<\/em> had married the Laird Sir Alec<\/em> before apparently drowning in an accident. Hollis is even more convinced when, whilst snooping in the darkened midnight halls, she meet\u2019s Val\u2019s ghost. Certain of murder, Mike probes deeper, uncovering a deeply-concealed scandal and mystery, becoming a target herself. However, when there are so many suspects and no one to trust, how long can it be before she joins her sibling in the spirit world?<\/p>\n

SoSH <\/strong>#6 sees transition to a standard horror-anthology completed by the addition of a schlocky comedic host\/raconteur along the lines of Cain<\/strong>, Abel<\/strong> and the Mad Mod Witch<\/strong>. Charity<\/em> offers her laconic first \u2018Welcome to Sinister House\u2019<\/em> (presumably scripted by editor Joe Orlando and illustrated by the astonishingly gifted Michael Wm. Kaluta), before pioneering industry legend Sheldon Mayer – who would briefly act as lead writer for the title – begins replacing romance with mordant terror and gallows humour by asking \u2018When is Tomorrow Yesterday?<\/em>\u2018 (limned by Alfredo Alcala) for a genre-warping tale of time-travelling magic and medicine. \u2018Brief Reunion!\u2019<\/em> by John Albano, Ed Ramos & Mar Amongo has a hitman feel the inescapable consequences of his life, before veterans Robert Kanigher & Bill Draut show a murdering wife that Karma is a vengeful bitch in \u2018The Man Hater\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Issue #7 opens in \u2018Panic!\u2019<\/em> by Mayer and the sublimely talented Nestor Redondo, who together teach a mobster\u2019s chiselling bookkeeper a salient lesson about messing with girls who know magic; Sergio Aragon\u00e9s opens occasional gag feature \u2018Witch\u2019s Tails\u2019<\/em> and Mayer & June Lofamia futilely warn a student taking ship for America \u2018As Long as you Live… Stay Away from Water!\u2019 <\/em>Sam Glanzman \u00a0illustrates Mayer\u2019s twice-told tale of ghostly millennial vengeance in \u2018The Hag\u2019s Curse and the Hamptons\u2019 Revenge!\u2019<\/em> before cartoonist Lore Shoberg draws some \u2018Witch\u2019s Tails\u2019<\/em> to end the issue.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Young Man Who Cried Werewolf Once Too Often\u2019<\/em> illustrated by Draut in #8 finds a most modern manner of dealing with lycanthropes, after which Maxene Fabe & Ruben Yandoc\u2019s \u2018Playing with Fire\u2019<\/em> sees a bullied boy find a saurian pal to fix all his problems and E. Nelson Bridwell & Alex Ni\u00f1o again feature a wolf-man – but one who mistakenly believed lunar travel could solve his dilemma during a \u2018Moonlight Bay\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Secrets of Sinister House<\/strong> #9 shows what could happen if impatient obnoxious neighbours are crazy enough to \u2018Rub a Witch the Wrong Way!\u2019<\/em> (Mayer & Abe Ocampo), and Kanigher & Rico Rival revealed \u2018The Dance of the Damned\u2019<\/em>. Here, an ambitious ballerina learns to regret stealing the shoes and glory of her dead idol, before Jack Oleck & Rival depict obsessive crypto-zoologists learning a hard lesson and little else whilst hunting \u2018The Abominable Snowman\u2019…<\/em><\/p>\n

In #10 Steve Skeates & Alcala\u2019s \u2018Castle Curse\u2019<\/em> finds a family torn apart by vulpine heredity, whilst Gerry Taloac\u2019s \u2018The Cards Never Lie!\u2019<\/em> tells how a gang turf war ends badly because nobody will listen to a fortune teller, before a greedy hunchback goes too far and learns too much in his drive to surpass his magician master in \u2018Losing his Head!\u2019<\/em> by Larry Hama, Neal Adams & Rich Buckler.<\/p>\n

Following another Kaluta \u2018Welcome to Sinister House\u2019<\/em>, Fabe & Yandoc craft a period tale of greedy adventure and just deserts in \u2018The Monster of Death Island\u2019<\/em>, after which all modern man\u2019s resources are unable to halt the shocking rampage of \u2018The Enemy\u2019<\/em> (by persons unknown). More Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Witch\u2019s Tails\u2019<\/em> precede an horrific history lesson of 18th<\/sup> century asylum \u2018Bedlam\u2019<\/em> (John Jacobson, Kanigher & Ni\u00f1o) and generations of benighted, deluded exploited souls within, prior to SoSH<\/strong> #12 leading with Sekowsky & Wayne Howard\u2019s salutary tale of a greedy, ruthless furrier who became \u2018A Very Cold Guy\u2019<\/em>. Oleck & Ni\u00f1o explore \u2018The Ultimate Horror\u2019<\/em> of a hopeless paranoid whilst – following more Aragon\u00e9s \u2018Witch\u2019s Tails\u2019<\/em> – Bridwell & Alcala adapt W. F. Harvey\u2019s classic chiller of ravening insanity \u2018August Heat\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Shock and awe is the order of the day in #13, as giant animals attack a horrified family in Albano & Alcala\u2019s decidedly deceptive \u2018Deadly Muffins\u2019<\/em>, and Oleck & Ni\u00f1o wryly mix nuclear Armageddon and vampires in \u2018The Taste of Blood\u2019<\/em>, before Albano & Jess Jodloman wrap up with \u2018The Greed Inside\u2019: <\/em>a nasty parable about wealth and prognostication. \u2018The Man and the Snake\u2019<\/em> is another Bridwell & Alcala adaptation depicting Ambrose Bierce\u2019s mesmerising tale of mystery and imagination, but the original thrillers in #14 are just as good. \u2018The Roommate\u2019<\/em> by Fred Wolfe, Sekowsky & Draut sees a college romance destroyed by a girl with an incredible secret whilst \u2018The Glass Nightmare\u2019<\/em> (Fleisher & Alcala) teaches an opportunistic thief and killer why you shouldn\u2019t take what isn\u2019t yours. #15 begins with \u2018The Claws of the Harpy\u2019<\/em> (Fleisher & Sparling) and a very human murdering monster reaping a whirlwind of retribution, following up with Oleck & Romy Gamboa\u2019s proof that there are more cunning hunters than vampires in \u2018Hunger\u2019<\/em> and culminating in a surprisingly heartwarming and sentimental fable in Albano & Jodloman\u2019s \u2018Mr. Reilly the Derelict!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite the tone of the times, Secrets of Sinister House<\/strong> was not thriving. The odd mix of quirky tales and artistic experimentation couldn\u2019t secure a regular audience, and a sporadic release schedule exacerbated the problems. Sadly, the last few issues, despite holding some of the best original material and fabulous reprints, were seen by hardly any readers. The series vanished with #18. Still, they\u2019re here in all their wonderful monochrome glory and well worth the price of admission on their own.<\/p>\n

An uncredited page of supernatural facts opens #16, after which George Kashdan & Don Perlin proffer a tale of feckless human intolerance and animal fidelity in \u2018Hound You to Your Grave\u2019<\/em>, whilst the superb Vicente Alc\u00e1zar traces the career of infamous 18th<\/sup> century sorcerer the Count of St. Germain<\/em> who proudly boasted \u2018No Coffin Can Hold Me\u2019<\/em> (scripted by Leo Dorfman?) before Kashdan returns with newcomer Ernie Chan to recount the sinister saga of the world\u2019s most inhospitable caravan in \u2018The Haunted House-Mobile\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps ironic in choice as lead #17\u2019s \u2018Death\u2019s Last Rattle\u2019<\/em> (Kashdan & uniquely marvellous Ramona Fradon) combines terror with sardonic laughs as a corpse goes on trial for his afterlife, even as an innocent living man was facing a jury for the dead man\u2019s murder, whilst \u2018Strange Neighbor\u2019<\/em> by Howard Chaykin and \u2018Corpse Comes on Time\u2019<\/em> from Win Mortimer tell classic quickie terror tales in a single page each. To close the issue, the editor raided the vaults for one of the company\u2019s oldest scary sagas.<\/p>\n

\u2018Johnny Peril: Death Has Five Guesses\u2019 <\/em>by Kanigher, Giacoia & Sy Barry was first seen in Sensation Mystery<\/strong> #112 (November\/December 1952) pitting the perennial two-fisted troubleshooter against a mystery maniac in a chamber of horrors. But was Karl Kandor<\/em> just a deranged actor or something else entirely?<\/p>\n

The curtain fell with #18, combining Kashdan & Calnan\u2019s all-new \u2018The Strange Shop on Demon Street\u2019<\/em> – featuring a puppet-maker, marauding thugs and arcane cosmic justice – with a selection of reprints. From 1969, Murphy Anderson\u2019s \u2018Mad to Order\u2019 <\/em>by was another one-page punch-liner and Dave Wood – as D.W. Holtz – & Angel B. Luna offered New Year\u2019s Eve enchantment in \u2018The Baby Who Had But One Year to Die\u2019<\/em>, and \u2018The House that Death Built\u2019<\/em> (Dorfman & Jerry Grandenetti) sees plundering wreckers reap watery doom for their perfidy.<\/p>\n

Once again the best was left till last as \u2018The Half-Lucky Charm!\u2019<\/em> by an unknown writer and artists Gil Kane & Bernard Sachs (Sensation Mystery<\/strong> #115, May 1953) follows a poor schmuck who could only afford to buy 50% of Cagliostro\u2019s good luck talisman and finds his fortune and life being reshaped accordingly…<\/p>\n

With superbly experimental and evocative covers by painters Victor Kalin, Jerome Podwil, George Ziel, and comics regulars DeZu\u00f1iga, Nick Cardy, Kaluta, Bernie Wrightson, Sparling, and Luis Dominguez, this long-overlooked and charmingly eclectic title is well overdue for a critical reappraisal, and fans of brilliant comics art and wry, laconic, cleverly humour-laced mild horror masterpieces should seek out this monochrome monolith of mirth and mystery.<\/p>\n

Trust me: you\u2019ll love it…
\n\u00a9 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 2010 DC Comics, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mary Skrenes, Len Wein, Jack Oleck, Frank Robbins, Michael Fleischer, Mary DeZu\u00f1iga, Lynn Marron, Sheldon Mayer, Joe Orlando, John Albano, Robert Kanigher, Maxene Fabe, E. Nelson Bridwell, Steve Skeates, John Jacobson, Fred Wolfe, George Kashdan, Leo Dorfman, Dave Wood, Don Heck, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga, Alex Toth, Mike Sekowsky, Jack Sparling, John Calnan, Vince Colletta, Frank … <\/p>\n

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