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Issue Details

Issue #194
Published September 1971
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details - "Born Loser"

Genre horror
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

10 page story "Born Loser"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

8 page story "The Human Wave"

Genre adventure; supernatural
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Reprinted from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #31 (April 1960)

8 page story "The Negative Man"

Genre science fiction; adventure
Script Joe Orlando
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #84 (March 1959)

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Script ? [as Cain]
Letters typeset
Notes Includes letters from Gerard Triano; Kerry Kirspel; Mary Maude Prange; Beth Marie Krause; Rita Gardocki

1 page Cain's Game Room filler

Genre humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones (signed)
Inks Sergio Aragones (signed)
Notes Three gag cartoons
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Cain's Room 13 filler

Characters Cain
Genre humor
Pencils John Costanza
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

10 page story "The King Is Dead"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Nestor Redondo
Inks Nestor Redondo
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1