Issue Details

Issue	#251
Published	March-April 1977
Cover Price	$1.00
Pages	84
Editing	Joe Orlando
Notes	Cover art based in part on previous, unpublished cover by Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez and Bernie Wrightson.

Cover Details

Genre	horror
Pencils	Neal Adams (signed)
Inks	Neal Adams (signed)
Notes	Cover art based in part on previous, unpublished cover by Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez and Bernie Wrightson.

5 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Greetings, fear freaks"

Characters	Cain; Abel; Gregory the Gargoyle
Genre	humor
Script	Paul Kupperberg
Pencils	John Calnan
Inks	Jack Abel
Notes	Framing sequence interspersed before, after, and between the stories; Credits given in letter column in issue #254

7 page story "Return of the Vampire"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Franc Reyes
Inks	Franc Reyes

8 page story "Bride of the Pharaoh"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Maxene Fabe
Pencils	Ramona Fradon
Inks	Ramona Fradon

1 page Cain's Game Room filler

Genre	humor
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones

8 page story "Fear Wore Two Faces!"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	George Kashdan
Pencils	Jess Jodloman
Inks	Jess Jodloman

1 page filler "Diploma"

Characters	Cain; Abel; Eve
Genre	humor
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones

8 page story "Ghostly Games"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Steve Skeates
Pencils	Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua]
Inks	Bill Draut

9 page story "The Collector"

Characters	Abel (host); Rex Starbuck
Genre	humor
Script	David V. Reed [as Coram Nobis]
Pencils	Wally Wood
Inks	Wally Wood
Reprinted	in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #63

1 page Cain & Abel filler

Characters	Cain; Abel
Genre	humor
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones

3 page House of Mystery story "Tour of the Top Floor of the House of Mystery"

Characters	Cain; Paul Levitz; Gregory the Gargoyle
Genre	humor
Script	Jack C. Harris
Pencils	John Calnan
Inks	John Calnan

1 page activity "Page 60 Maze"

Characters	Cain
Notes	Maze created by Bob Rozakis

6 page story "A House Is Not A Haunt"

Characters	Abel (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Paul Levitz; 'Mike Uslan
Pencils	Quico Redondo
Inks	Quico Redondo

7 page story "Harvest of Hate"

Characters	Abel (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Alfredo Alcala
Inks	Alfredo Alcala

2 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Script	Paul Levitz (?)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters submitted by Eric Broncke; D.B. Webb; Mike White; Larry Nolletti; Kelly Higgins; Matt Wasserman; O.R. Conant

1 page Aquaman advertisement "That Dirty Beach"

Characters	Aquaman; Slud-Jak
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Vince Colletta
Notes	Hostess Twinkie advertisement

1 page Black Lightning promo (ad from the publisher)

Characters	Black Lightning
Synopsis	Promo for BLACK LIGHTNING #1 (April 1977)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Trevor Von Eeden
Inks	Frank Springer (?)