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Issue Details

Issue #279
Published April 1980
Cover Price $0.40
Pages 36
Editing Jack C. Harris
Notes Statement of Ownership appears in this issue. Average total paid circulation for preceding year: 85,569.

Cover Details - "Every Shroud Has a Silver Lining"

Genre horror
Pencils Luis Dominguez (signed)
Inks Luis Dominguez (signed)
Notes Statement of Ownership appears in this issue. Average total paid circulation for preceding year: 85,569.

1 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Ah! There you are! We have been expecting you!"

Characters Cain; Abel; Destiny; Mordred; Mildred; Cynthia; Madame Xanadu; Gregory the Gargoyle
Genre humor
Script Jack C. Harris
Pencils Romeo Tanghal
Inks Romeo Tanghal (?)

8 page story "His Brother's Keeper"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Jack Oleck
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Wayne Howard

1 page filler "Cain's Game Room"

Genre humor
Pencils Kevin Woodcock (ZA-691); ? (ZA-689); ? (ZA-653)
Inks Kevin Woodcock (ZA-691); ? (ZA-689); ? (ZA-653)
Notes 3 gag cartoons.

2 page story "Trial By Fury!"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Alex Saviuk
Inks Alex Saviuk (?)

5 page story "Every Shroud Has A Silver Lining"

Characters Cain (host)
Synopsis Werewolf story.
Genre horror
Script Mike W. Barr
Pencils Noly Zamora
Inks Noly Zamora
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Esphidy Mahilum

1 page letters page "Cain's Mail Room"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Alan Naditz; Joe Beardslee; Randy Sparks; "Adiadne - Master and Keeper of Blackwood Manor".

1 page Wonder Woman advertisement "The Borrower"

Characters Wonder Woman; Borrower
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Vince Colletta (?)
Notes Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies.