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Issue Details

Issue #206
Published September 1972
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando; E. Nelson Bridwell (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details - "The Burning"

Genre Occult
Pencils Tony deZuniga
Inks Tony deZuniga
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Welcome back! I'm Cain, your conscientious caretaker..."

Characters Cain
Genre Occult
Pencils Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Inks Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Reprinted in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

6 page story "Sentimental Journey"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Occult
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Bill Payne
Inks Bill Payne
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

Half page Cain's Game Room filler "Beastly Funny"

Genre gags
Pencils Lore Shoberg
Inks Lore Shoberg
Notes Three one-panel gag cartoons. Art credits from the Showcase Presents reprint.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

8 page story "The Burning!"

Characters Cain (host); Meg Cooper (witch); Adam Strat
Synopsis A man, without any memories, is apparently saved from death by Meg Cooper, an ugly witch. After having Meg make him a lot of gold, he betrays her to the local village. She is tried and burned alive and Adam reverts to the straw man he was.
Genre Occult
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Tom Palmer
Reprinted in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1 (July 1998); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

8 page story "A Real Mother!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre Occult
Script Virgilio Redondo [as Virgil Redondo]
Pencils Ernie Patricio [as Ernesto Patricio]
Inks Ernie Patricio [as Ernesto Patricio]
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell ? [as Cain]
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Karl Merris; Matt Graham; Frank Verzyl