House of Mystery
#215
(July 1973)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 22
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-04-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [circle]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #95.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD)
- Inks
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD)
- Colors
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3112
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #36 ([1978]) -
in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
The Man Who Wanted Power Over Women
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-1767
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- Walter buys a potion to make himself a hit with women, but the vial falls into the wrong hands.
- Reprints
- in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #22 ([April 1976])
-
in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1978 series) #12 (septembre 1980) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]] - in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
The Junior Bullpen Project
Behind the Scenes at the DC Comic World / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Your Corpse Shall I Carve!
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- J-2051
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- An artist kills all the models he carves until a model with mythical power arrives to avenge them.
- Reprints
- in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #36 ([1978])
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1978 series) #12 (septembre 1980) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-3104
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Craig Ledbetter, Jeff Pike, Cindy Williamson, Tim Burgard, Lisa Anderson and Mark Howald.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3072
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Three one-panel gag cartoons:
A corpse falls out of the bottom of a coffin.
Igor is eating the brains for a Frankenstein monster.
People are waiting to paint pictures of a beheading.
Brain Food
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-1789
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- Aliens use gumballs in their plan for world domination.
- Reprints
- in Démon (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #15 (1er trimestre 1981) [Noir & Blanc et remonté [Black & White and reframed]]
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
The Man Who Wanted Power Over Women
Cain the Caretaker -
2.
The Junior Bullpen Project
Behind the Scenes at the DC Comic World -
3.
Your Corpse Shall I Carve!
-
4.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
5.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room -
6.
Brain Food
This issue was modified by, among others
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Paul Lefebvre
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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