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Issue Details

Issue #183
Published November-December 1969
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details - "Secret of the Whale's Vengeance"

Genre horror
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams
Colors Neal Adams; Jack Adler
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page House of Mysery story "Welcome to the House of Mystery"

Characters Cain
Genre horror
Script Joe Orlando
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

5 page story "The Haunting!"

Characters Cain; Frank Abel; Peggy Abel
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks Jerry Grandenetti
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

Half page Cain's Game Room filler

Genre horror; humor
Script Sergio Aragones
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

Half page Odds and Ends from Cain's Cellar filler "Curse of the Blankenships"

Genre horror
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Notes Credits by Craig Delich (November, 2005).
Reprinted from ?

Half page Odds and Ends From Cain's Cellar filler "Superstitions about Spiders"

Genre fact
Script Julius Schwartz?
Pencils Morris Waldinger?
Inks Tommy Nicolosi?
Reprinted from ?

3 page story "The Dead Can Kill!"

Characters Rev. Charles Power; Rawley; Cain
Genre horror
Script Marv Wolfman
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #17 (January 1982); in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #229 (February-March 1975); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Page 13 filler

Genre horror; humor
Script Joe Orlando
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Cain's Game Room filler

Genre horror; humor
Script Sergio Aragones
Pencils Sergio Aragones (signed)
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

11 page House of Mystery story "Secret of the Whale's Vengeance"

Characters Cain, Jeremy Bridges, Austin Bridges
Genre horror
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks Wally Wood
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Includes letters from Larry Mefford, Don Brown, and Jeff McKinnzie.