Issue Details

Issue	#279
Published	April 1980
Cover Price	$0.40
Pages	36
Editing	Jack C. Harris
Notes	Statement of Ownership appears in this issue. Average total paid circulation for preceding year: 85,569.

Cover Details - "Every Shroud Has a Silver Lining"

Genre	horror
Pencils	Luis Dominguez (signed)
Inks	Luis Dominguez (signed)
Notes	Statement of Ownership appears in this issue. Average total paid circulation for preceding year: 85,569.

1 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Ah! There you are! We have been expecting you!"

Characters	Cain; Abel; Destiny; Mordred; Mildred; Cynthia; Madame Xanadu; Gregory the Gargoyle
Genre	humor
Script	Jack C. Harris
Pencils	Romeo Tanghal
Inks	Romeo Tanghal (?)

8 page story "His Brother's Keeper"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Bernard Baily
Inks	Wayne Howard

1 page filler "Cain's Game Room"

Genre	humor
Pencils	Kevin Woodcock (ZA-691); ? (ZA-689); ? (ZA-653)
Inks	Kevin Woodcock (ZA-691); ? (ZA-689); ? (ZA-653)
Notes	3 gag cartoons.

2 page story "Trial By Fury!"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Carl Wessler
Pencils	Alex Saviuk
Inks	Alex Saviuk (?)

5 page story "Every Shroud Has A Silver Lining"

Characters	Cain (host)
Synopsis	Werewolf story.
Genre	horror
Script	Mike W. Barr
Pencils	Noly Zamora
Inks	Noly Zamora
Colors	Jerry Serpe
Letters	Esphidy Mahilum

1 page letters page "Cain's Mail Room"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters submitted by Alan Naditz; Joe Beardslee; Randy Sparks; "Adiadne - Master and Keeper of Blackwood Manor".

1 page Wonder Woman advertisement "The Borrower"

Characters	Wonder Woman; Borrower
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Vince Colletta (?)
Notes	Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies.