House of Mystery
#179
(March-April 1969)
DC,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1969-01-07
- 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 Widow's Walk]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Neal Adams
- Colors
- Neal Adams; Jack Adler
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
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]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Orlando
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando
- Inks
- Joe Orlando
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- 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])
-
Sour Note!
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell
- Pencils
- Jerry Grandenetti
- Inks
- George Roussos
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
- in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #229 (February-March 1975)
-
in Névrose (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #15 (août 1987) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]] - 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
Credits from Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1.
The Man Who Murdered Himself!
Cain's True Case Files / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Marv Wolfman
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
- in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #228 (December 1974-January 1975)
-
in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #27 ([June 1976] ?) - in Démon (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #15 (juillet 1987) [N&B/B&W]
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([April] 2006)
- in Classici DC: House of Mystery (Planeta DeAgostini, 2009 series) #1 (Dicembre 2009)
- in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018 [March 2019])
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #53
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1.
Roll The Lucky Dice!
Page 13 / activity / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Orlando
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- 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])
-
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / cartoon / 1.17 pages
- Script
- Sergio Aragonés
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- 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
4 gags in two parts of 0.67 and 0.5 pages.
The Widow's Walk
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Howie Post
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Joe Orlando
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Angus Beame; Mary Bourne
- Synopsis
- Mary Bourne placed a curse on her husband Angus that he may not return to harbor until the day she dies.
- Reprints
- in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-23 (Winter 1973)
- in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #17 (January 1982)
- in The Saga of Ra's Al Ghul (DC, 1988 series) #3 (March 1988)
-
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 Dead Tell Tales
Cain's True Case Files / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Otto Binder ?
- Pencils
- Morris Waldinger ?
- Inks
- Tom Nicolosi ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #293 (July 1961)
- 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])
-
[Fandom Picks the Winners]
The Wonderful World of Comics / text article / 0.67 page
- Script
- Mark Hanerfeld
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
#10 in a series. Replies to questions on DC comics by Mark Hanerfeld.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[The Widow's Walk]
-
1.
[Welcome to the House of Mystery]
-
2.
Sour Note!
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
The Man Who Murdered Himself!
Cain's True Case Files -
4.
Roll The Lucky Dice!
Page 13 -
5.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room -
6.
The Widow's Walk
-
7.
The Dead Tell Tales
Cain's True Case Files -
8.
[Fandom Picks the Winners]
The Wonderful World of Comics -
9.
[no title indexed]
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