This issue features "The House That Wasn't" written and penciled by Mike Sekowsky and inked by Wally Wood. The combination of the two artists is just magical, with many pages giving off an Alex Toth vibe. Diana Prince and I-Ching, traveling by car through a snowstorm when they pick up two motorists having car trouble. They soon discover their new passengers are escaped convicts who hold them at gunpoint. Soon, Diana's car stalls as well, and all four of them have to take refuge at the Inn of the White Horse.
Four others are there, including the female innkeeper, her son Lemuel, a writer names James Arnett, and a little man with a briefcase. One of the convicts eventually stabs the little man, mistakenly thinking he has stolen money in his briefcase and he is, in turn, killed falling down the stairs while in flight from an unseen attacker.
When the other convict is killed in the dark, Diana notices that the innkeeper has no reflection and stops the others from drinking what turns out to be a poisoned ale. Lemuel tries to strangle Diana, but I-Ching knocks him away with his cane. Lemuel and his mother hold Diana and the other two at gunpoint, explaining that they are ghosts and can only appear during storms like these, in which they have the chance to "take...enough souls" to enable them to appear and disappear at will. Diana kicks Lemuel's guns away, and she, Arnett, and I-Ching escape setting the Inn ablaze and burning it to the ground. Reprinted in Diana Prince: Wonder Woman Vol. 3 TPB (2009) and Wonder Woman Diana Prince: Celebrating the '60s Omnibus HC (2019).
Edited by Mike Sekowsky.
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