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Just in time for Halloween, here's a suitable-for-framing Michael Golden splash page, from HOUSE OF SECRETS 151, April-May 1978. This is the first I've seen signed with Golden's decorative signature "G". There is an additional 6-page story in this issue by Golden, and a beautiful Kaluta cover.

Golden also did signature splash pages for issues 148 and 149. There might have been a lot more Golden splash pages and mystery stories, and BATMAN stories, if not for the DC Implosion in Oct 1978, that sent Michael Golden, Bob Layton, Dave Michelinie, Jerry Bingham, Al Milgrom and many other freelancers over to Marvel, due to the fact there was no work available at DC for about a year, as DC suddenly was publishing half as many titles, and had a huge inventory to use up from all the cancelled titles.

I counted 94 issues with Golden art total from 1977-1990, and of those, 23 of them were for DC in this early period from Jan-Oct 1978.
Including:
BATMAN 295 and 303
BATMAN FAMILY 15-20 (Man-Bat, and Batman stories)
DC SPECIAL SERIES 15 (BATMAN SPECTACULAR)
DETECTIVE COMICS 482 ("Batmite" 6 p story, and "The Demon" 15 p story)
HOUSE OF MYSTERY 257 and 259
MISTER MIRACLE 23, 24 and 25
GHOSTS 88 ( 6 p story)
MYSTERY IN SPACE 113 ( 8 p story)
SECRETS OF HAUNTED HOUSE 10 ( 8 p story)


From Jan-Dec 1979, Michael Golden did the first 12 issues of MICRONAUTS, probably his best known work.
Another example of Marvel benefitting immensely from the talent displaced by the DC Implosion.