House of Mystery
#233
(July 1975)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 24
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-04-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (editor); Paul Levitz (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #117.
Happy Deathday
cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-3982
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #16 ([August 1975])
-
- Keywords
- skeletons
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
The Spy
Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
- Synopsis
- Superman has to work fast when a snoopy fellow reporter finds his civilian clothes in a closet at the Daily Planet.
Indexer Notes
inside front cover; comics ad for Hostess Fruit Pies from ITT Continental Baking Company
Cake!
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Michael Fleisher; Russell Carley (art continuity)
- Pencils
- Frank Robbins
- Inks
- Frank Robbins
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3418
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- Two hotel employees plan to rob a guest but accidentally murder her, which leads to their own grisly deaths.
- Reprints
- in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #16 ([August 1975])
-
in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #4 - L'infernal sortilège (septembre 1982) -
in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #4/1985 (1985)
-
Indexer Notes
Russell Carley produced breakdowns for Fleisher's scripts, as confirmed by Michael Fleisher.
Cover story.
It's Hell!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- Mr. Ellison conspires with a magician to kill his perfect (and boring) wife so that they will not have to spend eternity together, but after she is dead he learns a secret that changes everything.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz ? (signed as Cain)
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (logo illustration)
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-3974
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Elizabeth Permar; Mark Larksham; Arnold Krolec; Sam Lawrence.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Happy Deathday
-
1.
The Spy
Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman -
2.
Cake!
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
It's Hell!
-
4.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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