House of Mystery
#178
(January-February 1969)
DC,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-11-07
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[The Game]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
-
in Cuentos de Misterio (Editorial Novaro, 1960 series) #159 (1º de junio de 1969) -
in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006) -
in Classici DC: House of Mystery (Planeta DeAgostini, 2009 series) #2 (2009) - in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
[Welcome to the House of Mystery]
Cain the Caretaker / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Orlando ?
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
Indexer Notes
Title from Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1.
The Game
comic story / 6.67 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Jaime Markus
- Synopsis
- Young Jamie Markus takes refuge from a storm in an old deserted house and spends the night playing a game with a strange being who has his face.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Misterio (Editorial Novaro, 1960 series) #159 (1º de junio de 1969)
- in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #17 (January 1982)
-
in Mysterieserier (Semic, 1983 series) #6/1983 ([3 juni] 1983) - in Deadman (DC, 1985 series) #1 (May 1985)
-
in Dossier Negro (Zinco, 1981 series) #216 ([abril 1988]) - in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
- in Classici DC: House of Mystery (Planeta DeAgostini, 2009 series) #2 (2009)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
The Man Who Haunted a Ghost!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #35 (February 1955)
- in Cuentos de Misterio (Editorial Novaro, 1960 series) #159 (1º de junio de 1969)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
[no title indexed]
Page 13 / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
Indexer Notes
Joe Orlando script credit from House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) #1.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pet Show
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #76 - in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #227 (October-November 1974)
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
Indexer Notes
3 gags
What's the Youth?
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Misterio (Editorial Novaro, 1960 series) #159 (1º de junio de 1969)
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit from Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Orlando ?
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Ghostly Miners
Cain's True Case Files / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Are ghostly miners mining coal in Lions Coal Corporation mines?
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #35 (February 1955) [new feature name added]
- in Cuentos de Misterio (Editorial Novaro, 1960 series) #159 (1º de junio de 1969)
-
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #39 (May 1980) - in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
- in Showcase Presents: Ghosts (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([January] 2012)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[The Game]
-
1.
[Welcome to the House of Mystery]
Cain the Caretaker -
2.
The Game
-
3.
The Man Who Haunted a Ghost!
-
4.
[no title indexed]
Page 13 -
5.
["Pet Show"]
Cain's Game Room -
6.
What's the Youth?
Cain the Caretaker -
7.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
8.
Ghostly Miners
Cain's True Case Files
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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