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Issue Details

Issue #229
Published February-March 1975
Cover Price $0.60
Pages 100
Editing Joe Orlando
Notes Creature reprint spotted by Frank Battaglia (submitted via the error list, December 2006).

Cover Details - "Nightmare Castle!"

Genre mystery
Pencils Nestor Redondo; Berni Wrightson (creature in background left)
Inks Nestor Redondo; Berni Wrightson (creature in background left)
Notes Creature reprint spotted by Frank Battaglia (submitted via the error list, December 2006).
Reprinted from DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 series) #4 [creature in left background, from cover]

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword

Characters Cain
Pencils Nestor Redondo
Inks Nestor Redondo

11 page story "Sir Greeley's Revenge!"

Genre mystery
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling
Reprinted from House of Mystery #181 (July-August 1969)

6 page story "Sour Note!"

Genre mystery
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted from House of Mystery #179 (March-April 1969)

36 page story "Nightmare Castle"

Genre mystery
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Nestor Redondo
Inks Nestor Redondo
Notes inventory story originally intended for Secrets of Sinister House #6 (August-September 1972)

3 page Cain's True Case Files story "The Dead Can Kill!"

Genre mystery
Script Marv Wolfman
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Reprinted from House of Mystery #183 (November-December 1969)

6 page story "I Was A Spy For Them"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Reprinted from Tales of the Unexpected #16 (August 1957)

11 page story "Mask of the Red Fox"

Genre mystery
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Reprinted from House of Mystery #187 (July-August 1970)

3 page Cain's True Case Files story "Grave Results!"

Genre mystery
Script Marv Wolfman
Pencils Wayne Howard
Inks Wayne Howard
Reprinted from House of Mystery #182 (September-October 1969)

1 page filler "Cain's Gargoyles"

Genre humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones

2 page Cain's Mailroom letters page

Letters typeset
Notes letters submitted by Lisa Anderson; John Elliot; Rena Allen; Donna Petras; Mike Chapman; P.A. Grant; George Williams

1 page activity "Mystery Crossword"

Characters Cain
Script Bob Rozakis (puzzle construction)
Notes crossword puzzle