Issue Details

Issue	#253
Published	July-August 1977
Cover Price	$1.00
Pages	84
Editing	Joe Orlando

Cover Details - "Beware the Demon Child"

Genre	horror
Pencils	Neal Adams (signed)
Inks	Neal Adams (signed)

5 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Hello, friends! This is Cain..."

Characters	Cain; Abel; Eve; Destiny
Genre	humor
Script	Paul Kupperberg
Pencils	Howard Chaykin (?)
Inks	Jack Abel
Notes	Framing sequence interspersed before, between, and after the stories.

8 page story "Grave Labors!"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	E Nelson Bridwell
Pencils	Bill Draut
Inks	Bill Draut

7 page story "Images of the Dead"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	John Albano
Pencils	Tony deZuniga
Inks	Tony deZuniga

6 page story "Demon Child"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Doug Moench
Pencils	Alex Nino
Inks	Alex Nino

3 page story "Photo Finish"

Characters	Abel; Jack Adler; Cain
Genre	humor
Script	Jack C. Harris
Pencils	John Calnan
Inks	Jack Abel

8 page story "The Face of a God!"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	fantasy
Script	Denny O'Neil
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Bill Draut

1 page filler "Cain's Game Room"

Genre	humor
Pencils	Dave Manak
Inks	Dave Manak
Letters	Dave Manak (?)
Notes	Gag cartoon.

8 page story "More Than Human"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Romeo Tanghal
Inks	Bob Smith

1 page Cain's Game Room filler "History of Mystery"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	humor
Script	Dave Manak
Pencils	Dave Manak
Inks	Dave Manak
Letters	Dave Manak (?)
Notes	Gag cartoons.

6 page story "A House Is For Haunting"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Sandy Plunkett
Inks	Klaus Janson

1 page activity "Cain's Game Room"

Characters	Cain (host)
Script	Dave Manak (?)
Pencils	Dave Manak
Inks	Dave Manak
Letters	Dave Manak (?)

2 page letters page "Cain's Mail Room"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters submitted by D.B. Webb; Mike White; Theresa Jackson; Harris M. Miller II; Harvey Schwartz.

10 page story "The Actor"

Characters	Destiny (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Russell Carley (Script Continuity); Michael Fleisher
Pencils	Quico Redondo
Inks	Quico Redondo