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Issue Details

Issue #228
Published December 1974-January 1975
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 100
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details

Pencils Frank Robbins ?; Luis Dominguez
Inks Frank Robbins ?; Luis Dominguez

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Heh..heh.. It's Halloween again, kiddies..."

Characters Cain
Pencils Alfredo Alcala
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Notes Introductory panel with list of story titles and indicia information.

9 page story "The Wisdom of Many, The Wit of One"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Horror
Script Doug Moench (Plot); Frank Robbins
Pencils Frank Robbins
Inks Frank Robbins

1 page Cain's Game Room filler

Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Letters Sergio Aragones
Notes Three one panel gags.

5 page story "Stamps of Doom!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Occult
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Notes Bottom third of last page of sequence/story is preview ad for the next issue of Weird Mystery Tales.
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #23 (February 1954)

4 page story "The Rebel"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Science Fiction; Horror
Script Michael Pellowski (Plot); Maxene Fabe
Pencils Alan Kupperberg
Inks Neal Adams

7 page story "The Wizard's Revenge"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Occult
Pencils Bill Ely
Inks Bill Ely
Notes Bottom third of last page of story/sequence is preview/ad for next issue of The Losers.
Reprinted from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #41 (February 1961)

3 page Cain's True Case Files story "The Man Who Murdered Himself!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Horror
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #179 (March-April 1969)

1 page activity "House of Mystery Hidden Message"

Characters Cain
Synopsis Crossword puzzle with small head illustration of House of Mystery host Cain.
Script Bob Rozakis
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson

2 page filler "Halloween Monster Cards"

Characters Cain (host); Swamp Thing
Synopsis Images from other DC horror comics with humorous blurbs.
Genre Humor; Horror

1 page Cain's Game Room story

Synopsis Three single panel gag strips.
Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones

11 page story "A Coffin for Bonnie and Clyde!"

Characters Cain (host); Bonnie Parker; Clyde Barrow
Genre Horror
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling
Notes Bottom third of story/sequence page 6 is sequence 12. Bottom third of story/sequence page 12 is a DC house ad. This results in the 11.33 TOTAL page length. The two parts of this story ending in partial pages indicates a few years of age for it, DC having discontinued that construction that long back, but the job number is paradoxically contemporaneous with this publication date.
Reprinted in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #26

Half page text article "Attention College Students!"

Script ? [The Editors]
Letters Typeset
Notes Text commenting on getting DC magazines into university bookstores.

6 page story "The Dragon of Times Square"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Occult
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #74 (May 1958)

1 page Room 13 filler "Free! A Lucky Room 13 Amulet for You!"

Genre Humor; Horror
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones

2 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters Typeset
Notes Letter column with illustrated title header. Letters submitted by Joshua Case; John Elliot; Steven Dhuey; Glen James; Arturo Tejada; Bill Senger; Mark Harris

6 page story "Seven Steps to the Unknown"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Mystery
Pencils Bill Ely
Inks Bill Ely
Reprinted from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #4 (August 1956)

7 page story "Wheel of Fate!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Occult
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted from Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #108 (March-April 1952)

12 page story "The Fireworks Man!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Horror
Script Russell Carley (Script Continuity); Michael Fleisher
Pencils Gerry Talaoc
Inks Gerry Talaoc