House of Mystery
#255
(November-December 1977)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 26
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 84
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1977-08-17
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893053012
- Editing
- Paul Levitz (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #146.
[When You Wish Upon a Star]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as
WRIGHTSON) - Inks
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as WRIGHTSON)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Job Number
- J-3196
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Reality (Robert Gerstenhaber, 1970 series) #2 (1971) [The house, flying saucer, and cat have been added when compared to original drawing] -
in Classici DC: House of Mystery (Planeta DeAgostini, 2009 series) #1 (Dicembre 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Cover illustration was done some years earlier by Wrightson; interior story was later written to accompany it.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 5 pages
- Job Number
- J-4783
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good evening, friends! I'm Cain, the able caretaker...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Dracula; Frankenstein; Mummy; Wolfman
Indexer Notes
Framing sequence, with three pages at the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end.
Small Wonder
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-3748
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- An orphanage director takes advantage of a boy with the power to create things from his imagination, but the director's mounting greed leads to his death.
- Reprints
-
in Doomsday Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #9 (August 1978)
-
The Evil Half
comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- J-3603
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- Homer Finley, a poor accountant, is tempted by a female demon to change his life.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Cain's Game Room / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Pencils
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Inks
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dave Manak
- Job Number
- J-4834
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're pathetic, Hazel -- watch me!
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
Sometimes, Leopards Can....
comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Inks
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-4786
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The famous animal tamer Erik Braden is looking for something to spice up his circus act when he acquires Fera, a female were-leopard.
- Reprints
The Bermuda Triangle
Cain's Game Room / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Pencils
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Inks
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dave Manak
- Job Number
- J-4834
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
Is Anyone Listening?
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- J-4815
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Abel; Mike Gold
- Synopsis
- Abel contacts DC's PR representative, Mike Gold, for some new ideas on promoting his magazine, House of Secrets.
When You Wish Upon a Star
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Cary Burkett
- Pencils
- Frank Redondo (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Redondo (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-4799
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis
- A homely witch tries to conjure up a mate but nothing seems to work out.
- Reprints
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #90 - in Doomsday Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #9 (August 1978)
-
in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #4/1985 (1985)
-
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- ? (as Cain)
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (logo illustration)
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-755
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Dan Rinke, Mike White, Frank A. Nigelson, Carla Moore and Mark Cohen.
Bed of Roses
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- T-157
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host); Lila Van Avery; Victor Bradley; Nicky; Rita
- Synopsis
- Heiress Lila van Avery is swindled by journalist Victor Bradley, but he doesn't get away with it.
- Reprints
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #6 ([May 1978]) [Job number (T-157) deleted from this reprint.]
-
in Sueurs Froides (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #4 (septembre 1982)
-
Monster Book of World Records!
Cain's Game Room / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Pencils
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Inks
- Dave Manak (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dave Manak
- Job Number
- J-4834
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
The Killing
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-3851
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When stage magician Frank Mason accidentally kills a msn, he flees to the jungle and tries to cheat the natives out of their gold, not knowing he is setting himself up as the ultimate victim.
- Reprints
The Victim!
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-4860
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A vampire chooses the wrong victim.
- Reprints
- in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #40 ([August 1980])
- in Sueurs Froides (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #4 (septembre 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Alex Saviuk's first published work.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[When You Wish Upon a Star]
-
1.
["Good evening, friends! I'm Cain, the able caretaker..."]
-
2.
Small Wonder
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
The Evil Half
-
4.
["You're pathetic, Hazel -- watch me!"]
Cain's Game Room -
5.
Sometimes, Leopards Can....
-
6.
Cooky La Moo on Broadway
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
7.
The Bermuda Triangle
Cain's Game Room -
8.
Is Anyone Listening?
-
9.
When You Wish Upon a Star
-
10.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
11.
Bed of Roses
-
12.
Monster Book of World Records!
Cain's Game Room -
13.
The Killing
-
14.
The Victim!
-
15.
Volume 77 Issue 33 - Week of August 15, 1977
Daily Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Paul Lefebvre
- Lee Lines
- Lou Mazzella
- Mark Muller
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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