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Issue Details

Issue #195
Published October 1971
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details - "Bat Out of Hell!"

Genre horror
Pencils Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Welcome to the House of Mystery!"

Characters Cain; Gregory the Gargoyle
Genre humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

8 page story "Bat Out of Hell"

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) #2 [black and white]

5 page story "The Fantastic Wishing Well"

Genre occult
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #14 (November 1958)

1 page Cain's Gargoyles cartoon

Synopsis 3 gag cartoons
Genre humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page Cain's Gargoyles cartoon

Synopsis 3 gag cartoons
Genre humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

3 page story "Countdown"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror; science fiction
Pencils Ralph Reese
Inks Ralph Reese
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

10 page story "Things Old, Things Forgotten"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

6 page story "Who Am I?"

Genre occult
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Reprinted from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #11 (March 1957)

1 page story "Trick Or Treat"

Genre horror
Pencils Michael W. Kaluta
Inks Michael W. Kaluta
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Scott Strider; Doug Brown; Ralph Alfonso; "Countess Deborah"