Issue Details

Issue	#288
Published	January 1981
Cover Price	$0.50
Pages	36
Editing	Len Wein

Cover Details - "The Piper at the Gates of Hell!"

Genre	horror
Pencils	Michael W. Kaluta (signed)
Inks	Michael W, Kaluta (signed)

8 page story "The Piper at the Gates of Hell"

Characters	Cain (host); Piper; Simple Joe; Adam Caufield
Synopsis	Adam Caufield rescues Simple Joe from the piper.
Genre	horror
Script	J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils	Dan Spiegle
Inks	Dan Spiegle
Colors	Tatjana Wood
Letters	John Costanza
Reprinted	in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #23

3 page story "Open Season"

Characters	Cain (host); Reynold Carter; Jim Trask
Synopsis	Jim Trask has returned to take vengeance on the man who shot him and left him for dead.
Genre	horror
Script	Mike W. Barr
Pencils	Jess Jodloman
Inks	Jess Jodloman
Colors	Jerry Serpe
Letters	Jess Jodloman (?)

6 page story "Blood On The Sand"

Characters	Cain (host); Juan De Fiero; Maria Delgado; Roger Gallardo
Synopsis	Juan De Fiero, the bullfighter, fights a demonic bull.
Genre	Occult
Script	Wyatt Gwyon
Pencils	Frank Redondo
Inks	Frank Redondo
Colors	Jerry Serpe
Letters	Benjie Pabulos

7 page story "When The Sea Gives Up Its Dead!"

Characters	Cain (host); Maureen Joyce; Liam Gallagher; Sean O'Feolan
Synopsis	Liam Gallagher get his revenge on the man who killed him.
Genre	horror
Script	Robert Kanigher
Pencils	E.R. Cruz
Inks	E.R. Cruz
Colors	Jerry Serpe
Letters	E.R. Cruz

1 page story "Do's and Don'ts of Monsters!"

Characters	Abel
Synopsis	Humorous Do's and Don'ts for Monsters.
Genre	humor
Script	Dave Manak
Pencils	Dave Manak
Inks	Dave Manak
Letters	Dave Manak

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters	Typeset
Notes	Letters submitted by Bob Burros; "The Phantom Monkeywrench," "The Phantom Stranger"

1 page Flash advertisement "The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat"

Characters	Flash; Bureauc-Rat
Synopsis	The Flash stops the Bureauc-Rat and his Red-Tape gun with a hostess fruit pie.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Vince Colletta
Notes	Hostess Fruit Pies ad.