House of Mystery #186 Values

Publisher: DC, 1970

About House of Mystery #186

Neal Adams cover and art. Bernie Wrightson art. Sergio Aragones gag page.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Nightmare

Pencils: Neal Adams

Inks: Neal Adams

Colors: Jack Adler

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: The Secret of the Egyptian Cat

Characters: Cain (story host); Isha (priestess); Konassos (sorcerer); Ra-Na (cat)

Synopsis: To the House of Mystery comes Konassos, a sorcerer, with his white cat. Cain one night sees the cat transform into a woman who tells her tale. Isha, Egyptian priestess of the temple of Nu-Ta the Cat-God, is captured and held captive by Konassos. The sorcerer to better control her transforms the priestess into a white cat. Trapped in her feline form, Ra-Na a male cat escorts her but is then poisoned by the sorcerer. She plots her revenge and one day concocts a magical spell that transforms her back into a woman and Konassos into a mouse which she then introduces to Ra-Na's friends.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Bernie Wrightson [as Wrightson] (signed)

Inks: Bernie Wrightson [as Wrightson] (signed)

Letters: Irving Watanabe

Reprints: Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-23 (Winter 1973)

Title: Nightmare

Characters: Cain (story host); Judy; Judy's father; Miss Winter (governess); Pan (statue brought to life)

Synopsis: A lonely little girl, Judy, seeks a friend and finds it in Pan, an animated statue. They play together in a fantasy world, but meantime in the real world she is struck by a fever and a doctor tries to cure her. As she improves, her father convinces her that Pan is just a statue. The statue, with a girl who's now grown up, sheds a tear.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Neal Adams; Joe Orlando (pg 1: Cain head)

Inks: Neal Adams; Joe Orlando (pg 1: Cain head)

Letters: John Costanza

Reprints: Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-23 (Winter 1973)

Notes: Uncredited Cain head on the top of page one. Judy was modeled after Neal Adams' daughter Kris Adams. (Note corrected by Zeea (Adams) Moss via the GCD Errors list.) Kanigher script per bio info from Robin Snyder's History of the Comics #v4#7 (July 1993). Previous indexer credited Jack Oleck, who is credited as authoring this story in the reprint in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	2	4	3	6	14	19	21	15	2	0	0	91
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	2	3	4	4	6	17	20	21	15	2	0	0	101

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