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Issue Details

Issue #180
Published May-June 1969
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams
Colors Neal Adams; Jack Adler
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

8 page story "Comes a Warrior"

Characters Rangarry; Cain
Genre horror
Script Gil Kane
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Wally Wood
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

6 page Gil Kane story "His Name Is... Kane"

Characters Abel; Carmine Infantino; Gil Kane; Joe Orlando
Synopsis Comic book artist Gil Kane feels wasted in the comic books he's drawing and tries to gain some privacy by going to the House of Mystery where he plans to write his own stories. There, however, his editor Joe Orlando scolds him until Gil Kane finally kills him. The editor and writer however exact their vengeance by drawing Gil Kane into his own artwork which is then framed by Abel on the walls of the House of Mystery.
Genre horror
Script Mike Friedrich
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Wally Wood
Notes The word "Cain" appears below the story title, but is crossed out.
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-23 (Winter 1973-1974); in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1 (July 1998); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Cain's Game Room filler

Genre gag
Script Sergio Aragones
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

2 page text story "Oscar Horns In!"

Genre horror
Script Cliff Rhodes
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

3 page story "Scared to Life"

Characters Cain
Genre horror
Script Marv Wolfman
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Notes Writer credit from Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1.
Reprinted in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #226 (August-September 1974); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3

2 page Cain's Game Room story

Genre gag; horror
Script Sergio Aragones
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Cain's True Case Files filler

Genre horror
Pencils Morris Waldinger?
Inks Tommy Nicolosi?
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