Price history & market evidence
Price observations belong to this edition. Guide estimates, catalog references and completed sales are separate kinds of evidence.
| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $850.12 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 6.0 | $1,450.00 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 8.0 | $2,990.87 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 9.2 | $5,384.67 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 9.4 | $12,001.69 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 9.6 | $77,333.00 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 9.8 | $70,302.33 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| RAW | $900.00 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 10.0 | $91,393.00 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1971-06-01 |
| 9.6 | $4,000.00 | ComicBase · catalog referencecatalog | Date not recorded |
Reading this edition’s market
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The table includes 9 guide observations and 1 catalog references. These are reference values, not guaranteed sale proceeds.
Graded population
CGC records 4,142 graded copies for House of Secrets #92 (1971). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Snipe Hunt
In the graveyard behind the House of Secrets, Abel invites the reader to join him in hunting for a snipe, while his brother Cain lurks behind a gravestone laughing at his gullibility.
Sometime in the last century, Alex Olsen and Damien Ridge had been best friends. However, they both vied for the affections of a woman named Linda. Linda eventually married Alex and Damien had to endure his heartache in the form of the supportive friend. But his desire for Linda overrode the bonds of friendship and he conspired to eliminate Alex. He sabotaged the equipment in Alex's lab causing an explosion that killed him. Keeping the knowledge hidden from Linda, Damien buried Alex's body in the swamp.
Damien eventually married the widow Olsen, and they lived together in an old Victorian plantation house. But Linda never recovered from Alex's death. As months passed, Damien began to suspect that Linda might soon learn the truth, so he prepared to kill her. But Alex had been resurrected as a swamp thing and broke into the house and killed Damien. Linda fled from the creature in horror, never realizing that the beast who saved her was her beloved Alex.
A wealthy man named Maxwell James is obsessed with what happens after death; his obsession only grows stronger when he arrives at his wife's deathbed and realizes that she sees something utterly horrifying in her final moments. After his wife's death, Maxwell makes increasingly callous attempts to pursue this mystery, even paying to see a critically injured child and angrily storming out when the child makes a full recovery. Finally, Maxwell loses his patience and attempts to kill his wife's brother-in-law Hal with a gun. In the ensuing struggle, Maxwell is fatally shot, and begs Hal to look into his eyes. As Hal obeys, he sees the reflection of the terror beyond death in Maxwell's eyes and is driven to permanent insanity.
A homeless man encounters a crying baby warlock in the town dump who is upset that he has broken his balloon. The homeless man remembers that he's got a dime on him and so he gives it to the kid and tells him to get another balloon. The kid thanks him and tells him that he'll pay him back some day. The homeless man notices dimes start to fall from the nozzle of an abandoned bathtub and can't believe his good fortune. He gathers them up and goes into town to eat at a fancy restaurant, donate to the Salvation Army and buy new clothes. A criminal observes that the man has run into some money and follows him back to the dump to relieve him of it. The criminal kills the homeless man, and the little boy is angry. He causes his new balloon to grow so large that it engulfs the killer, then he approaches the balloon with a large pin.
A failed painter murders in order to acquire magic paint and canvas which legend states will change your life if you complete a paint-by-numbers portrait. The man completes the portrait and cheerfully waits for his life to change as the ghoul with a knife raised high over its head steps out of the canvas behind him.
Creative credits
Writers: Gerry Conway, Len Wein, Jack Kirby, Mark Evanier, Mary Skrenes
Interior art: Bernie Wrightson, Bill Draut, Alan Weiss, Dick Dillin
Cover art: Bernie Wrightson, Jack Adler
Source records & attribution
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COMICBASE: comicbase:544033
GCD: 24277
PANEL PROFITS: 2408558