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
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mary Bourne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #53 - 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])
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1. Earliest known professional work published for Bernie Wrightson (letter published in Creepy #5, October, 1965 & illustration published in Creepy #9, June, 1966). Spectre #9 was published two weeks after this issue, with an 8 1/2 page story by Bernie in it.
Roll The Lucky Dice!
Page 13 / activity / 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])
-
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / cartoon / 1.17 pages
- 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
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Witch burnings, pirate plunder and murder, lost whalers and silent bitter women - this is still the heritage of the village of Whaler's Harbor, clinging silently to the bleak rocky coast of New England...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Angus Beame; Mary Bourne; Mr. Bourne (Mary's father); Homer Clyde (Mr. Bourne's servant); Mildred Clyde (Homer's wife); lawyer; various crewmen of Angus Beame; exotic item merchant; modern-day beachgoers
- Synopsis
- In 1897, merchant seaman Angus Beame marries Mary Bourne for her eventual inheritance. When Mary's father's will is read, and is not to Angus' satisfaction, he sails away and leaves Mary. In response, Mary places a curse on her betraying husband that he may not return to harbor until the day she dies.
- Reprints
- in Hallucinations (Arédit-Artima, 1969 series) #4 (mars 1970) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- 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])
-
- Keywords
- 1897; curse; inheritance; New England coastal town; sea or island setting; ships
Indexer Notes
The house given to Mary and Angus by her father bears a noticeable resemblance to the Norman Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960).
The Dead Tell Tales
Cain's True Case Files / comic story / 0.67 page
- 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]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- James Ludwig
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Joe Torcivia
- Jim Van Dore
- James Zieff
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