House of Mystery
#226
(August-September 1974)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 23
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-05-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [circle]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (editor); Paul Levitz (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #106.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-3628
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #55 -
in Weird Mystery Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #5 ([April 1978]) -
in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pat Broderick (signed)
- Inks
- Pat Broderick (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3621
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon in, chill-chasers...
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
Garden of Evil
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- J-3416
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #55
- in Weird Mystery Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #5 ([April 1978])
-
in La Maison du Mystère (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #21 (avril 1983) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Névrose (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #13 (avril 1987) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
[no title indexed]
Room 13 / activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3622
- Synopsis
- cut-out coffin
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #188 (September-October 1970)
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Teddy Doesn't Seem to Smile Anymore!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- J-3439
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #103
- in All Favourites Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #106 ([January 1975] ?)
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) which is reprinted
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
The Devil's Chessboard
comic story / 5.67 pages
- Job Number
- J-3473
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host, inserted); Alan Blake; Elsa Trent; Rabu
- Synopsis
- Chess expert Alan Blake engages in a deadly game on the magical "devil's chessboard" where every lost piece equals a loss in real life. When Blake's queen is taken, his fiancée suffers a heart attack. She survives only, because Blake can promote a pawn to a queen.
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #12 (March 1953)
- in The Hundred Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 ? series) #29 ([February 1959])
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #8 ([October 1978])
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) which is reprinted
-
- Keywords
- chess
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-3806
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Paul Edwards; Derrick Bostrum; Lisa Anderson; Billy Hamilton; Dennis Cozzallo; Jeffrey Lorbski; Louis Manzato; J.O. Rohrer; James Carson; Laura Kerewsky; Tim Kinnes.
The Living Nightmare!
The Phantom Stranger / comic story / 7.67 pages
- Job Number
- J-1539
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Phantom Stranger; Cain (host, inserted)
- Reprints
- from The Phantom Stranger (DC, 1952 series) #5 (April-May 1953)
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) which is reprinted
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Monster in the House
comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- J-3231
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #24 ([August 1976])
- in Névrose (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #13 (avril 1987)
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Scared to Life
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- J-3631
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Lord Dufferin
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #180 (May-June 1969)
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #8 ([October 1978]) [Job number (J-3631) deleted from this reprint.]
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) which is reprinted
-
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / cartoon / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-3624
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Timber!
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
3 gag cartoons.
The School for Sorcerers
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-3623
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Cain (host, inserted)
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #74 (May 1958)
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) which is reprinted
-
The Perfect Mate
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher; Michael Pellowski (story idea)
- Pencils
- Jess Jodloman
- Inks
- Jess Jodloman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J--3301
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #55
- in Weird Mystery Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #5 ([April 1978])
- in La Maison du Mystère (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #21 (avril 1983) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #12 (mars 1987) [N&B [B&W]]
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
[no title indexed]
Cain's Gargoyles / illustration / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-3633
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hee...Hee...So you want to have your own gargoyle...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
The Wishes of Doom!
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Job Number
- J-3625
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Cain (host, inserted)
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #10 (January 1953)
- in Weird Mystery Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #5 ([April 1978])
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) which is reprinted
-
The Haunted Melody
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-3627
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Cain (host, inserted)
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #58 (January 1957)
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #8 (juillet 1986) which is reprinted
-
Do You Dare Enter The House of Mystery?
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Pencils
- Pat Broderick (p. 1); Sergio Aragonés ? (pp. 2-3)
- Inks
- Pat Broderick (p. 1); Sergio Aragonés ? (pp. 2-3)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3536
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain; Paul Levitz; Tex Blaisdell; Sergio Aragones; Michael Fleisher; Jack Oleck; David Michelinie; Joe Orlando; Dave Manak; Gregory the Gargoyle; Poochie
- Synopsis
- Tour of the House of Mystery (double-page spread plus intro).
- Reprints
Out of This World
comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- J-3381
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #55
- in Weird Mystery Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #5 ([April 1978])
- in Névrose (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #13 (avril 1987)
- in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3 ([March] 2009)
-
Hidden in the House!
activity / 1 page
- Job Number
- P-24
- Characters
- Cain
- Synopsis
- word search puzzle
- Reprints
- 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.
["C'mon in, chill-chasers..."]
-
2.
Garden of Evil
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
[no title indexed]
Room 13 -
4.
["Attention, comic fans! Don't miss any..."]
-
5.
["We can put DC Comics right in your mail box"]
-
6.
Teddy Doesn't Seem to Smile Anymore!
-
7.
The Devil's Chessboard
-
8.
Coming Super-Attractions!
Superman -
9.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
10.
The Living Nightmare!
The Phantom Stranger -
11.
The Masters of Mystery
-
12.
Monster in the House
-
13.
The Line of DC Super-Stars
-
14.
Scared to Life
-
15.
["Timber!"]
Cain's Game Room -
16.
The School for Sorcerers
-
17.
The Perfect Mate
-
18.
["Hee...Hee...So you want to have your own gargoyle..."]
Cain's Gargoyles -
19.
The Wishes of Doom!
-
20.
Coming Super-Attractions
-
21.
The Haunted Melody
-
22.
Do You Dare Enter The House of Mystery?
-
23.
Out of This World
-
24.
Hidden in the House!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- CTGarry
- John DiBello
- Gregory Fischer
- Andre Heikamp
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Mark Muller
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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