House of Mystery
#273
(October 1979)
DC,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 29
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-07-17
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893053010
- Editing
- Paul Levitz (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #170.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Rites of Inheritance!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as
MW Kaluta) - Inks
- Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-130
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Kupperberg
- Pencils
- Romeo Tanghal (signed)
- Inks
- Romeo Tanghal (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Job Number
- J-3625
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a perfect night for tale-telling!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Introductory page.
Ghost Hunt!
Cain the Caretaker / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- J-5143
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #123 -
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #40 ([August 1980]) -
in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #7 - La porte de l'enfer (juillet 1983) -
in The House of Mystery Special (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #1 (1984) [oorspronkelijke titel: "Ghost Hunt!"]
-
My Mother, the Witch
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- J-5257
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
Wonder Woman Saves the Astronauts
Hostess Fruit Pies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-337
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Robin Snyder and Thomas P. McNulty.
The Right of Inheritance
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-5274
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #131
- in Weird Mysteries (K. G. Murray, 1980 series) #46 ([March 1981])
- in La Créature du Marais (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #3 (novembre 1983)
-
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.6 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Number 47 Carol Fein
DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.4 page
- Script
- Paul Kupperberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- biography
Indexer Notes
Biography of Jenette Kahn's assistant
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Rites of Inheritance!
-
1.
["What a perfect night for tale-telling!"]
-
2.
Ghost Hunt!
Cain the Caretaker -
3.
My Mother, the Witch
-
4.
Wonder Woman Saves the Astronauts
Hostess Fruit Pies; Wonder Woman -
5.
[no title indexed]
Cain's Mail Room -
6.
The Right of Inheritance
-
7.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man -
8.
Number 47 Carol Fein
DC Profiles
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dave Berkebile
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Jochen G.
- Andre Heikamp
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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