House of Mystery
#251
(March-April 1977)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 26
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 84
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1976-12-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893053004
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #138.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (signed as
Neal Adams) - Inks
- Neal Adams (signed as Neal Adams)
- Colors
- Neal Adams ?; Cory Adams ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-375
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Classici DC: House of Mystery (Planeta DeAgostini, 2009 series) #2 (2009), #2 (2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover art based in part on unpublished earlier version of cover by Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez and Bernie Wrightson. Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 5 pages
- Job Number
- J-4504
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Greetings, fear freaks...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain; Abel; Gregory the Gargoyle
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Framing sequence interspersed before, after, and between the stories. Credits given in letter column in issue #254
Return of the Vampire
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- J-3640
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #112 -
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #25 ([February 1977])
-
Bride of the Pharaoh
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-3128
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-4458
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
Fear Wore Two Faces!
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-3103
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 2 pages
- Job Number
- L-602
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Eric Broncke; D.B. Webb; Mike White; Larry Nolletti; Kelly Higgins; Matt Wasserman; O.R. Conant.
Ghostly Games
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-3570
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
The Collector
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- David Vern
- Pencils
- Al Sirois (breakdowns); Wally Wood
- Inks
- Wally Wood
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- ZA-329
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Abel (host); Rex Starbuck
- Reprints
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #112
-
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #63 (August 1985) -
in Spécial USA (Albin Michel, 1985 series) #19 (mars 1986)
-
Indexer Notes
The original breakdowns for this story turned up at Auction. Bluelines by Al Sirois with graphite by Wally Wood as Wood refined the work before producing the full pencils.
[no title indexed]
Cain & Abel / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-4459
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain; Abel
Tour of the Top Floor of the House of Mystery
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- J-4533
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain; Paul Levitz; Gregory the Gargoyle
Indexer Notes
Abel inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited John Calnan. Editorial Coordinator Paul Levitz is caricatured.
A House Is Not a Haunt
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Levitz; Michael Uslan
- Pencils
- Frank Redondo (credited as Q. Redondo)
- Inks
- Frank Redondo (credited as Q. Redondo)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- T-129
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Abel (host)
Harvest of Hate
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- J-1921
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Abel (host)
- Reprints
- in Doomsday Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #7 (August 1977)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
["Greetings, fear freaks..."]
-
2.
Return of the Vampire
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
Bride of the Pharaoh
-
4.
That Dirty Beach
Aquaman; Hostess Twinkies -
5.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room -
6.
Fear Wore Two Faces!
-
7.
Diploma
-
8.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
9.
Ghostly Games
-
10.
The Collector
-
11.
[no title indexed]
Cain & Abel -
12.
Tour of the Top Floor of the House of Mystery
-
13.
Page 60 Maze
-
14.
A House Is Not a Haunt
-
15.
["And Now... We Interrupt This Comic to Bring You a Word from Your New Publisher..."]
-
16.
Harvest of Hate
-
17.
[no title indexed]
Black Lightning
This issue was modified by, among others
- Weldon Adams
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Andre Heikamp
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
- Gregg Whitmore
- James Zee
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