The Witching Hour (DC Comics)
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The Witching Hour was a DC comic book horror anthology that ran from 1969 to 1978. Its tagline was "It's 12 o'clock... The Witching Hour!" (changed to "It's midnight... The Witching Hour!" after about a year). The series was originally edited by Dick Giordano, but it was taken over by Murray Boltinoff with issue #14.[1]
Stories in the comic were "hosted" and introduced by three witches, based on Macbeth's Weird Sisters: Morded, Mildred, and Cynthia. (The witches defined the archetypal Maiden/Mother/Crone triumverate of womanhood.)
After The Witching Hour's cancellation, it was merged with The Unexpected, until that series folded. The witches were later revived — along with the hosts of the companion series House of Secrets and House of Mystery — as important characters in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.