House of Mystery
#266
(March 1979)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 29
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-12-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893053003
- Editing
- Paul Levitz (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #163.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Demon Blade!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD [overlapping])
- Inks
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD [overlapping])
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-838
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Claude de May; Francois Marron; (unnamed) demon
- Reprints
-
in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #12 ([January 1980]) [Job number (C-838) deleted from this reprint. Cover recoloured.] -
in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #5 - L'épée du démon (janvier 1983) [Remise en couleurs [Recolored]]
-
- Keywords
- demon
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin. 17th Century France.
![Cover Thumbnail for House of Mystery (1951 series) #266 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1557/w100/1557196.jpg?1110581169162540133)
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-5935
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Welcome, fear-fans!
- Characters
- Cain
The Calendar Man!
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- J-5437
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #42 ([November 1979])
- in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #5 - L'épée du démon (janvier 1983)
-
The Intergalactic Gold Eaters
Batman; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman
Death's Dominion
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Martin Pasko
- Pencils
- Frank Redondo
- Inks
- Frank Redondo
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- Esphid Mahilum (credited as Espid Cahilum)
- Job Number
- J-5282
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Paul Selavy; Charles
- Reprints
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #12 ([January 1980]) [Illustrations of Cain (host) removed from first and last panels of story.]
-
Indexer Notes
Adapted from a story by Guy deMaupassant.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-210
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Kimberly Arber; Lyle Dennison.
Demon Blade
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-5232
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #12 ([January 1980]) [pp1: Illustration of Cain (host) removed, Cain’s speech balloon converted to a panel; story title changed to two lines, and artwork extended. pp1, panel 2: Wording “That Pompous Fool!” changed to “That Pompous Ass!” pp2 and pp6: Illustrations of Cain (host) removed.]
- in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #5 - L'épée du démon (janvier 1983)
-
in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #4/1985 (1985)
-
Volume 78 Issue 50 - Week of December 25, 1978
Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page
- Job Number
- P-250
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Demon Blade!
-
1.
["Welcome, fear-fans!"]
-
2.
The Calendar Man!
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
The Intergalactic Gold Eaters
Batman; Hostess Twinkies -
4.
Death's Dominion
-
5.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
6.
Demon Blade
-
7.
Volume 78 Issue 50 - Week of December 25, 1978
Daily Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Jochen G.
- Andre Heikamp
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Lou Mazzella
- Mark Muller
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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