7th Son

[Lee K]

of the 7th son...

 

Or something like that.

 

In the 40s & 50s - heck - even the early 60s it wasn't uncommon to find a comic whereon the cover featured a scantily clad woman being accosted by an octopus or squid or shark - (my personal favorite is a copy of More Fun Comics where Green Arrow is fighting an octopus underwater - with a bow, I love golden age books).

 

Number 7 on my purge survival list also features a damsel in a bathing suit and a giant tentacled monster from the deeps - but the only ones being rescued here are the men in the longboat being rescued from the boredom of their lives.

 

OK - the story doesn't read that way - but the cover is wonderful, the pages are white, and the cover has excellent colors and composition. Additionally, the cover is missing something minor - it doesn't have a price.

 

At number 7 on my PSL I give you: House of Mystery 133, CGC 9.0 white, with an issue date of April 1963.

 

I think that some day more early 60s House of Mystery books will make it into my collection...but this is my prize right now.

 

Happy Hunting!

Lee

 

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[Ronnylama]

House of Mystery intrigues me. I do enjoy the background color. The men are doomed to no end...except, perhaps, the lad in the back (I think he has a harpoon)