House of Mystery
#278
(March 1980)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 30
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-12-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893053003
- Editing
- Jack C. Harris (credited); Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #175.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
T.V. or Not T.V.
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Job Number
- C-244
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Turn that thing off!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-6279
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's good to get out into the fresh air...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain (host)
Indexer Notes
Introductory page.
TV or Not TV
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-5876
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
-
in Weird Mysteries (K. G. Murray, 1980 series) #46 ([March 1981])
-
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-419
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by R. Singer; Natalie Batitski; Alan Naditz.
Hawkman Makes a Safe Landing
Hawkman; Hostess Cup Cakes / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hawkman [Katar Hol]; sky diving club members
- Synopsis
- Hawkman rescues a man whose parachute fails to open and the rest of his club celebrates with Hostess Cup Cakes.
...And the Truth Shall Make You Dead!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- J-5814
- Genre
- horror-suspense; western-frontier
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
Crazy, Man!
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- J-3826
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Doomsday Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #16 (April 1980)
-
in The House of Mystery Special (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #1 (1984) [oorspronkelijke titel: "Crazy, Man!"]
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
T.V. or Not T.V.
-
1.
["It's good to get out into the fresh air..."]
-
2.
TV or Not TV
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
4.
Hawkman Makes a Safe Landing
Hawkman; Hostess Cup Cakes -
5.
...And the Truth Shall Make You Dead!
-
6.
DC Puzzle
-
7.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man -
8.
Crazy, Man!
Cain the Caretaker
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Andre Heikamp
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Donald Dale Milne
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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