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Issue Details

Issue #265
Published February 1979
Cover Price $0.40
Pages 36
Editing Paul Levitz
Notes Cover intended for the never published Weird Mystery Tales (DC, 1972 series) #26. Cover printed in the limited distribution Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1978 series) #2.

Cover Details - "The Curse of the Spider"

Genre horror
Pencils Michael W. Kaluta (signed)
Inks Michael W. Kaluta
Notes Cover intended for the never published Weird Mystery Tales (DC, 1972 series) #26. Cover printed in the limited distribution Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1978 series) #2.

1 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Time to clean out the cellar, fear-fans..."

Characters Cain
Genre humor
Script Paul Kupperberg
Pencils Romeo Tanghal
Inks Romeo Tanghal

8 page story "The Perfect Host"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Bill Draut

8 page story "Illegal Procedure!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Michael Uslan; Nancy Osher
Pencils Fred Carrillo
Inks Fred Carrillo

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Beppe Sabatini; Stan Tychinski

1 page Superman advertisement "An Unbeatable Power!"

Characters Superman; Big Dome
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Vince Colletta (?)
Notes Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies