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Issue Details

Issue #196
Published November 1971
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Orlando; Mark Hanerfeld (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details - "A Girl and Her Dog"

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

9 page story "A Girl and Her Dog"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page Cain's Game Room cartoon

Synopsis 3 gag cartoons
Genre humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

7 page story "The Alien Within Me"

Genre horror
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Reprinted from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #60 (October 1961)

2 page story "Child of the Dead"

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

1 page Cain's Room 13 cartoon

Synopsis 3 gag cartoons
Genre humor
Pencils Lore Shoberg
Inks Lore Shoberg
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

6 page story "Dark Journey"

Genre occult
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #72 (March 1958)

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Kerry M. Kirspel; Randy Moore; Bruce Lohr; Cathy Post

1 page A Witch's Garden of Curses filler "My Heart Becomes So Icy Cold "

Script Len Wein
Pencils Joe Orlando ?
Inks Joe Orlando ?
Notes "homage" to William Wordsworth's poem "My Heart Leaps Up" (1802)
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

10 page story "The Little People"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Jack Oleck is identified as the writer in the letters page of House of Mystery #200.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]