House of Mystery #296 [Newsstand]
(September 1981)

DC, 1951 Series
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Volume
31
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981-06-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893053009
Editing
Karen Berger

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #191.
This issue is a variant of House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #296 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Night Women (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carmine Infantino (signed as CI)
Inks
Joe Orlando (signed as JO)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
Gaspar Saladino ?

Job Number
C-665
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Beneath the city streets, they are working their terrible evil!
Genre
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
Karen Berger
Pencils
Joe Brozowski (signed)
Inks
Rodin Rodriguez (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
J-7602
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Greetings, fear-fans. This month finds Cain...
Genre
humor
Characters
Cain

Night Women (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway
Pencils
Carmine Infantino
Inks
John Celardo
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
John Costanza

Job Number
J-7272
Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Wonder Woman Versus the Robot Master (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Work for the Dying! (Table of Contents: 4)

Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
George Kashdan
Pencils
Ron Randall
Inks
Tex Blaisdell
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Milt Snapinn

Job Number
J-6654
Genre
horror-suspense; science fiction
Characters
Cain (host)
Reprints

Killed in the Ratings (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Kupperberg
Pencils
Fred Carrillo
Inks
Fred Carrillo
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Esphid Mahilum

Job Number
J-7183
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Cain (host)
Reprints

New Hope (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Mishkin; Gary Cohn
Pencils
Bob Hall
Inks
John Celardo
Colors
Bob LeRose
Letters
Milt Snapinn

Job Number
J-7320
Genre
horror-suspense; science fiction
Characters
Cain (host)
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
? [as Cain]
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-836

Indexer Notes

Letters submitted by R.J. Humphreys; Bobby Blank.

Remainder of page is an advertisement for the film Superman II (opening June 19, 1981).

Editing
This Issue is currently being edited by Juan Gonzalez (since 2024-04-23, last edit 2024-04-23)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Night Women
  2. 1. ["Greetings, fear-fans. This month finds Cain..."]
  3. 2. Night Women
  4. 3. Wonder Woman Versus the Robot Master
    Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman
  5. 4. Work for the Dying!
    Cain the Caretaker
  6. 5. Killed in the Ratings
  7. 6. New Hope
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
    Cain's Mail Room
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