(July 1986)

DC, 1986 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-03-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Ed Hannigan (editor); Alan Gold (assistant editor); Dick Giordano (executive editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #26. Alan Gold credited on next issue's letter pages.
This issue has variants:

More Shock & Schlock with the Mistress of the Dark! (Table of Contents)

Elvira / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mark Beachum
Inks
Kyle Baker
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
?
Genre
horror-suspense; humor
Characters
Elvira
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Beachum credited as Beacham in letters page. Colors credit from color guide found online by "zzzzz" and submitted via the GCD Error Tracker.

Cover Thumbnail for Elvira's House of Mystery (DC, 1986 series) #5 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Elvira's House of Mystery (1986 series) #5 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Elvira's House of Mystery (1986 series) #5 [Canadian]
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Cover gallery

Clue Number 1 (Table of Contents: 1)

Elvira / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Joey Cavalieri
Pencils
Mark Beachum
Inks
Mark Beachum
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
G-2388
First Line of Dialogue or Text
No... no... stay away from me with that!
Genre
horror-suspense; humor
Characters
Elvira
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Framing sequence with 2 pages at beginning of issue, 1 page between the two stories and 1 page at end of issue.

Waddell and the Beev (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Rory Metcalf (credited as Rory R. Metcalf)
Pencils
Tom Grindberg
Inks
Jim Fern
Colors
Mary Kay Van Camp
Letters
Kurt Hathaway
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Damn rat!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense

The Clockwork Dragon (Table of Contents: 3)

Elvira / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Dick Ayers
Inks
Tony DeZuniga
Colors
René Reynolds
Letters
Pierre Bernard Jr.
Editing
Dave Manak
Job Number
J-7895
Genre
humor; horror-suspense
Characters
Elvira (host)
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Elvira's Post-Mortems / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Ed Hannigan
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2372

Indexer Notes

Information about the comic prior to letters from readers.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. More Shock & Schlock with the Mistress of the Dark!
    Elvira
  2. 1. Clue Number 1
    Elvira
  3. 2. Waddell and the Beev
  4. 3. The Clockwork Dragon
    Elvira
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Elvira's Post-Mortems
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  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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