The Witching Hour #52 – Key Highlights
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Publisher: DC Comics
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Publication Date: March 1975
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Frequency: Monthly
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Editor: Murray Boltinoff
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Cover Artist: Nick Cardy (signed; pencils credited)
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Genre: Horror
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Pages: 36
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Format: Full Color
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Original Cover Price: $0.25
🔥 Key Significance
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Features a signed Nick Cardy cover titled “The Hidden and the Hideous!”
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Includes three horror stories scripted by Carl Wessler and George Kashdan.
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Features interior artwork by Lee Elias, Don Perlin, and Jun Lofamia.
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Continues the anthology's familiar framing segments starring the three witches: Mordred, Mildred, and Cynthia.
📖 Story Highlights
- “The Hidden and the Hideous” – 7 pages
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Script: Carl Wessler
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Pencils and Inks: Lee Elias
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Host: Mildred
- “Honeymoon for a Corpse” – 8 pages
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Script: George Kashdan
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Pencils: Don Perlin
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Inks: Don Perlin (tentative attribution)
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Host: Cynthia
- “Flowers for Your Funeral” – 4 pages
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Script: Carl Wessler
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Pencils and Inks: Jun Lofamia
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Host: Mordred
📌 Additional Details
- “We Haven't a Picture of You in Our Family Album...” – 1-page introductory feature
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Pencils: E. R. Cruz
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Characters: Mordred, Mildred, and Cynthia
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Genre: Humor, Horror
- “Witch-Ful Thinking” – 1-page letters page
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Typeset letters submitted by Robert W. Chan and Clement Chapman.
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Script credit tentatively attributed to Murray Boltinoff.
- The three main stories account for 19 pages. Including the introductory feature and letters page, 21 pages of the 36-page issue are documented.
Collector’s Note: The Witching Hour #52 brings together a signed Nick Cardy cover and interior work by Lee Elias, Don Perlin, and Jun Lofamia, with three horror tales hosted by DC's familiar trio of witches.
