House of Mystery
#188
(September-October 1970)
DC,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-07-07
- 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.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- J846
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Shock Classics (Classics/Williams, 1972 series) #26 (1974) [cover] -
in Skrekk Magasinet (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1972 series) #3/1974 ([mars] 1974) -
in Skrækmagasinet (Williams, 1972 series) #3/1974 ([Marts] 1974) -
in Skräckmagasinet (Williams Förlags AB, 1972 series) #3/1974 (1 mars 1974) -
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #20 (April 1974) -
in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1978 series) #6 (2ème trimestre 1980) -
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])
-
Dark City of Doom
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 11.67 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway (credited as Gerard Conway)
- Pencils
- Tony DeZuniga (credited)
- Inks
- Tony DeZuniga (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- J-623; J-263
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (Host)
- Reprints
- in Skrækmagasinet (Williams, 1972 series) #17/1973 ([December] 1973)
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #18 (February 1974)
- in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #3/1996 (uke 6 1996)
- 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
First and last page of the story (job number J-623) is a framing sequence featuring Cain.
Page 6 is a 2/3-page.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-858
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Allan G. Lataweic, Martha L. Wisdom, Jeff and Mike Kichaven, Jerry Wilson, Rick S., and Alan Strassner.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Gargoyles / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Sergio Aragonés
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Job Number
- J-832
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Skräckens timmar (Williams Förlags AB, 1973 series) (1973) [Endast sista rutan återtryckt här.], (1973) [endast första och andra gag-rutorna återtryckta]
- in Shock Classics (Classics/Williams, 1972 series) #46 (1975)
- in Skräckmagasinet (Williams Förlags AB, 1972 series) #11/1975 (november 1975)
- in Skrekk Magasinet (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1972 series) #11/1975 ([november] 1975)
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #40 (December 1975)
- 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
Multiple single panel gags.
Cain brings his gargoyle to the veterinary.
A duck hunter sees a flock (gaggle?) of gargoyles.
A rooster wonders why one of his hen's eggs hatches a gargoyle.
[Coffin Cut-Out]
Room 13 / activity / 1 page
- Script
- Sergio Aragonés
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-836
- Reprints
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #55
- in 2 grufulde timer (Williams, 1973 series) (1973)
- in 2 ruskiga timmar (Williams Förlags AB, 1973 series) (1973)
- in Groot uur griezelen (Classics/Williams, 1973 series) ([1973])
- in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #226 (August-September 1974) which is reprinted
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
- 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
A coffin cut-out.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- John Albano
- Pencils
- John Albano (signed)
- Inks
- John Albano (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Job Number
- J-785
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in 2 grufulde timer (Williams, 1973 series) (1973) [Only: An executioner swings his axe and the blade flies into the air.]
- in 2 ruskiga timmar (Williams Förlags AB, 1973 series) (1973)
- in Groot uur griezelen (Classics/Williams, 1973 series) ([1973])
- 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
John Albano script credit from House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) #1.
Multiple single panel gags.
A hunter shoots down a witch on a flying broom.
A man hides behind a door but the monster rips the whole house off its foundation.
An executioner swings his axe and the blade flies into the air.
House of Madness!
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-170
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in 2 grufulde timer (Williams, 1973 series) (1973)
- in 2 ruskiga timmar (Williams Förlags AB, 1973 series) (1973) [originally titled: "House of Madness!"]
- in Groot uur griezelen (Classics/Williams, 1973 series) ([1973])
- in The Masterworks Series of Great Comic Book Artists (DC, 1983 series) #3 (October 1983)
- 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])
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Dark City of Doom
Cain the Caretaker -
2.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
3.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Gargoyles -
4.
[Coffin Cut-Out]
Room 13 -
5.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room -
6.
House of Madness!
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- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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