House of Mystery
#288
[Newsstand]
(January 1981)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 31
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-10-23
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893053001
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Len Wein (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #184.
This issue is a variant of House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #288 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #288 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
The Piper at the Gates of Hell!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as
MW Kaluta) - Inks
- Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-368
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Piper at the Gates of Hell
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-6841
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Piper; Simple Joe; Adam Caufield
- Synopsis
- Adam Caufield rescues Simple Joe from the piper.
- Reprints
-
in The House of Mystery (K. G. Murray, 1981 ? series) ([1981]) -
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #23 (April 1982)
-
Open Season
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- J-6651
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Reynold Carter; Jim Trask
- Synopsis
- Jim Trask has returned to take vengeance on the man who shot him and left him for dead.
- Reprints
- in Beast of Darkness (K. G. Murray, 1981 series) ([1981])
-
The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash; Bureauc-Rat
- Synopsis
- The Flash stops the Bureauc-Rat and his Red-Tape gun with a hostess fruit pie.
Blood on the Sand
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-5438
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Juan De Fiero; Maria Delgado; Roger Gallardo
- Synopsis
- Juan De Fiero, the bullfighter, fights a demonic bull.
- Reprints
- in Doomsday Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #19 (August 1981)
-
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead!
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- J-6598
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Maureen Joyce; Liam Gallagher; Sean O'Feolan
- Synopsis
- Liam Gallagher get his revenge on the man who killed him.
Do's and Don'ts of Monsters!
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Dave Manak
- Pencils
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Inks
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dave Manak
- Job Number
- J-6675
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Abel
- Synopsis
- Humorous Do's and Don'ts for Monsters.
Editing
This Issue is currently being edited by
Juan Gonzalez
(since 2024-04-23,
last edit 2024-04-23)
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Piper at the Gates of Hell!
-
1.
The Piper at the Gates of Hell
Cain the Caretaker -
2.
Open Season
-
3.
The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies -
4.
Blood on the Sand
-
5.
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead!
-
6.
Do's and Don'ts of Monsters!
-
7.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room
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- Nuno Miranda
- Jim Van Dore
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