House of Mystery #191

(March-April 1971)

No Strings Attached! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Len Wein

Pencils:

Bill Draut

Inks:

Bill Draut

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

J-706

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Characters:

Cain (host)

Synopsis:

A puppeteer is evicted from his house and dies without knowing that the children he entertained have not forgotten him. His puppets come to life to enact revenge on the heartless man who stole their master's home.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982)
• in Fantomet (Bonnier Publications / Semic AS, 1995 series) #1/1996 (uke 2 1996)
• in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([February] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Includes two-page humorous introductory sequence.

["In fortune cookie is velly seclet message..."] (Table of Contents)

Room 13 / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sergio Aragonés ?

Pencils:

Sergio Aragonés (signed)

Inks:

Sergio Aragonés

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sergio Aragonés ?

Job Number:

J-835

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

Not reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1, perhaps due to the use of stereotypical "Chinese" dialect.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Cain's Game Room / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Sergio Aragonés (signed)

Inks:

Sergio Aragonés

Colors:

?

Job Number:

J-930

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([February] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Three gag cartoons.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 0.67 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Cain]

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

J-1048

Indexer Notes

Letters submitted by Rudy Rankins; Bill Winans; Warner Bailey

Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Credits

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1970
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 180,642
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 176,497
Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 909 Third Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, wholly owned by Kinney National Service, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly-held corporation . Certified by Bernard Kashdan, Business Manager.

The Hanging Tree! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Oleck

Pencils:

Tony deZuniga

Inks:

Tony deZuniga

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Characters:

Cain (host)

Synopsis:

A witch's curse destroys a man hundreds of years later.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([February] 2006)

Night Prowler! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Len Wein

Pencils:

Bernie Wrightson

Inks:

Bernie Wrightson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

J-1015

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

On Christmas Eve, a man and his wife are awakened by the sounds of a prowler in the house.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-43 (February-March 1976)
• in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #3 (September 1986)
• in A DC Universe Christmas (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] ([November] 2000)
• in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([February] 2006)