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Issue Details

Issue #209
Published December 1972
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando; E. Nelson Bridwell (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details

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

1 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Greetings out there! I'm Cain, caretaker and part-time babysitter here..."

Characters Cain
Genre humor
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

8 page story "For Money...For Love!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Steve Skeates
Pencils Alfredo Alcala
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Letters Alfredo Alcala
Notes The first page has a separate job number (J-1756) than the next 7 pages (J-1708).
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

Half page Cain's Game Room cartoon

Genre gags
Script Bill Riley
Pencils Bill Riley
Inks Bill Riley
Letters Bill Riley ?
Notes 2 gag cartoons
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 Includes letters from Dan Gheno; Mike Murphy; Craig Stone; Laurie Hannon; Art Stampler

8 page story "Maniacs"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Steve Skeates
Pencils Ruben Yandoc
Inks Ruben Yandoc
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

5 page story "Tomorrow, I Hang!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils Jim Aparo
Inks Jim Aparo
Letters Jim Aparo
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]