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Issue Details

Issue #200
Published March 1972
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Orlando; Mark Hanerfeld (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details - "The Beast's Revenge"

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

1 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Glad you could make it!"

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

7 page story "The Beast's Revenge"

Characters Cain {host}
Genre horror
Script John Albano
Pencils Michael W. Kaluta
Inks Michael W. Kaluta
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

7 page story "The Secret of Camp Galaxy"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Reprinted from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #26 (November 1959)

Half page statement of ownership

Letters typeset
Notes Statement of October 1, 1971. Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc,. wholly owned by Kinney Services, Inc. Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months: 187,408

4 page story "The Forbidden Wish"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre occult
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #7 (November 1956)

1 page Cain's Gargoyles cartoon

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

5 page story "The Lunatic"

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

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Script Mark Hanerfeld ? [as Cain]
Letters typeset
Notes Includes letters from Craig Ledbetter; Countess Mary Day; Jim; Louis Manzato; Matthew Graham

11 page story "A Breath of Black Death"

Genre horror
Script Gerry Conway [as Francis X. Bushmaster]
Pencils Tony deZuniga
Inks Tony deZuniga
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page A Witch's Garden of Curses story "Slogging Through the Swamp On a Murky Evening"

Script Len Wein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Notes Adapted from the Robert Frost poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]