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Issue Details

Issue #197
Published December 1971
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Orlando; Mark Hanerfeld (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details - "Ghost Ship"

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

12 page story "Ghost Ship"

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

5 page story "Mr. Mortem!"

Genre occult
Pencils Leonard Starr
Inks Leonard Starr
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #20 (November 1953)

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Deno Jeffrey; Peter R. Thorpe; Garry Huddleston; Tim Lynch; Michael Flynn; Bill Culbertson; Lenny Price

3 page story "I Wish I May, I Wish I Might"

Genre horror
Script Len Wein
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page Cain's Game Room cartoon

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

8 page story "House of Horrors"

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 Guardian of the Past"

Genre occult
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Reprinted from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #11 (July-August 1958)