Elvira's Post-Mortems

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Elvira coffin makeup case collaboration with dolls kill

September 1986. ELVIRA'S HOUSE OF MYSTERY was basically just a revival of DC's sting-in-the-tail horror series (which had expired a few years earlier), now hosted by Elvira. Besides this nifty Bill Sienkiewicz cover — whose green skies and the presence of Adam Strange identify the setting as Ranagar, capital of the planet Rann — this issue has some early professional work by Eric Shanower, later the creator of AGE OF BRONZE, who lettered the first of the two main features. I think the Elvira framing sequences may have been written by Tom and Mary Bierbaum, later of LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES fame. (They were credited in the previous issue, but not this one.)

Elvira’s House of Mystery #10

Happy Holidays my fellow art lovers!

Elvira's House of Mystery Special by José Luis García-Lopez

DC characters - Elvira

Sveta Shubina, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Elvira's House of Mystery

art by Stan Woch & Dick Giordano, DC, 1986.

Archie's Halloween Spectacular 2023, Stadium Comics variant cover by Bill Walko

Homage to the cover of Elvira's House of Mystery #1, January 1986, by Brian Bolland

Elvira's House of Mystery #3 and #4 1986