HOUSE OF MYSTERY (1951) #179 – 1ST BERNIE WRIGHTSON PRO WORK

“SOUR NOTE.” A man wonders about the history of the estate he occupies, and a ghost appears to reveal that he ‘murdered’ himself (and assumed a new identity) in order to avoid reprisal for claim jumping. « The man who murdered himself » in this issue of House of Mystery was Marv Wolfman’s first horror yarn and the first DC story illustrated by Berni Wrightson (who left the « e » off his name to distinguish himself from a famous diver.) In the story, narrated by « caretaker » Cain, an estate in 1882 was haunted by the ghost of a man who killed himself.…