House of Mystery No. 231 Cover by Bernie Wrightson
Bernie Wrightson had just come off his groundbreaking run with writer Len Wein on Swamp Thing. He would move onto other projects, like the shared working space with Michael Wm Kaluta, Barry Windsor Smith and Jeff Jones which would be documented in the book The Studio and his illustrated Frankenstein.
As well as this Wolfman cover for the House of Mystery, 1974 would also see publication of The Monsters Color-the-Creature Book, which anticipated the adult colouring book market by more than a few decades.
Here’s the cover to House of Mystery No. 231, art restored and recoloured.
As published
Original art scan from Heritage Auctions. It was a fad in the 1970s for artists to hand colour originals for sale to collectors. Thankfully, the colours have faded, making it possible to return the scan to black and white.
Restored art. Some Photoshop manipulation combined with hand-painting out the remaining evidence of the previous colouring.
New colour
New colour detail
Re-created trade dress applied
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