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Issue Details

Issue #254
Published September-October 1977
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 84
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details - "The Curse of the Sea Monkey!"

Genre horror
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams

5 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Glad you could make it back, friends."

Characters Cain; Abel; Loch Ness Monster
Genre humor
Script Paul Kupperberg
Pencils Ric Estrada
Inks Jack Abel
Notes framing sequenc interspersed before, after, and between the stories.

10 page story "The Night Job"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Russell Carley (Script Continuity); Michael Fleisher
Pencils Jess Jodloman
Inks Jess Jodloman

7 page story "Good For Nothing"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Wayne Howard

1 page Abel's Fables filler "Abel's Fables"

Genre humor
Script Dave Manak
Pencils Dave Manak
Inks Dave Manak
Letters Dave Manak ?
Notes gag cartoon

7 page story "Dead Man's Bride"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Alex Nino
Inks Alex Nino

7 page story "The Curse of the Sea Monkey!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Lois Maiwald
Pencils E.R. Cruz
Inks E.R. Cruz

3 page story "Gregory the Gargoyle"

Characters Cain; Abel; Paul Kupperberg; Jack C. Harris; Gregory the Gargoyle
Genre humor
Script Jack C. Harris
Pencils Ric Estrada
Inks Jack Abel

6 page story "Skin Game"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Abe Ocampo
Inks Abe Ocampo

1 page Cain's Game Room filler "Cain's Game Room"

Synopsis gag cartoon
Genre humor
Script Dave Manak
Pencils Dave Manak
Inks Dave Manak
Letters Dave Manak ?

8 page story "Trial By Fire"

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

1 page Cain's Fear Facts! filler "Cain's Fear Facts!"

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

7 page story "The Devil's Plague"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Marshall Rogers
Reprinted in Shadow of the Batman (DC, 1985 series) #5 (April 1986)

1 page House of Mystery Puzzle activity "House of Mystery Puzzle"

Characters Abel (host)
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Notes crossword puzzle

2 page Cain's Mail Room letters page "Cain's Mail Room"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters submited by Roger Klorese; Larry Lisowski; D.B. Webb; Jeff Kroll