The House of Mystery No. 182 Cover by Neal Adams
If there were hundreds of covers like these by Adams I’d want to colour them all. Unfortunately, there are only a couple dozen or so he did for DC’s horror comics, and only a few of those have decent scans available on the web. So I take my time with these and only do one once in a while.
Putting the kids in peril was a very engaging motif, and when asked what happened to all those kids Adams joked, “They probably all died.”
New colour by me.
As published.
Original art scan from Heritage Auctions.
Art made production ready and extended at the top to free it from the box.
New colour version.
Re-created trade dress added.
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