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COVER DETAILS
Title:
Do You Dare Enter... the House of Mystery
Pencils:
Nick Cardy
Inks:
Nick Cardy
Colors:
Sol Harrison
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Color credits provided by Anthony Tollin.
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The House of Gargoyles!
Characters:
Cain (host); Francois (sculptor, flashback); French sculptor; Jimmy; Samuel
Synopsis:
Gargoyles come to life and take revenge on the man who killed their designer.
Pages:
11.670
Script:
Jack Oleck
Pencils:
Jack Sparling (signed)
Inks:
Jack Sparling (signed)
Letters:
Milt Snapinn
Synopsis:
A ghost at a costume party has no one underneath the sheet.
Pages:
0.330
Script:
Sergio Aragonés
Pencils:
Sergio Aragonés
Inks:
Sergio Aragonés
Letters:
Gaspar Saladino
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Sergio Aragonés
Pencils:
Sergio Aragonés
Inks:
Sergio Aragonés
Notes:
Three single panel gags:
A snake charmer's snake attacks a tourist.
A scuba diver sees someone sawing a hole in the bottom of the sea.
A diner catches a glimpse of the cook.
Notes:
Three vertical panel gags:
A man on a desert island is hit by the rescue food dropped by parachute to him.
A man dives off of a high dock to find he is headed for a mine.
A man digging for subway construction finds a red demon with a pitch fork.
Title:
The Widow's Walk
Characters:
Angus Beame; Homer Clyde; Mildred Clyde (Homer's wife); Mary Bourne; Mr. Bourne (Mary's father)
Synopsis:
Mary Bourne placed a curse on her husband Angus that he may not return to harbor until the day she dies.
Pages:
10.000
Script:
Howie Post [as Howard Post]
Pencils:
Neal Adams
Inks:
Joe Orlando
Letters:
Ben Oda
Title:
Mysteriously Yours - Cain and Gregory
Characters:
Cain; Gregory (gargoyle)
Pages:
2.000
Pencils:
Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Inks:
Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Notes:
Central pinup printed sideways. Signature dated 1973.
Title:
"His Name Is... Kane"
Characters:
Abel; Carmine Infantino; Gil Kane; Joe Orlando
Pages:
6.500
Script:
Mike Friedrich
Pencils:
Gil Kane
Inks:
Wally Wood
Letters:
Ben Oda
Pages:
0.500
Script:
Sergio Aragonés
Pencils:
Sergio Aragonés
Inks:
Sergio Aragonés
Notes:
Two single panel gags:
A fencer's opponent is wearing the clothes of a musketeer.
A diver photographs a gangster tied up with his feet in a bucket of cement.
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Sergio Aragonés
Pencils:
Sergio Aragonés (signed)
Inks:
Sergio Aragonés (signed)
Letters:
Sergio Aragones
Notes:
Three single panel gags:
A man about to be beheaded is giving his executioner a hot foot.
A funeral procession finds a cow in the grave.
Cub Scouts are laughing around a campfire because their leader was scarred by an owl.
Notes:
Four single panel gags:
A coffin maker discovers a vampire in one of his coffins.
A man carrying a doomsday sign is hit by a car.
A man pretending to be blind is distracted by a girl and is heading for an open manhole.
The leader paints a bulls eye target on a man in front of the firing squad.
Title:
The Poster Plague!
Characters:
Cain (host); Debbie; Gregory (gargoyle); Harold (cat); Warren
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Steve Skeates
Pencils:
Sergio Aragonés
Inks:
Sergio Aragonés
Letters:
Joe Letterese ?
Title:
Nightmare
Characters:
Cain (host); Judy; Judy's father; Miss Winter (governess); Pan
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 (page 1: Cain head)
Inks:
Neal Adams; Joe Orlando (page 1: Cain head)
Letters:
John Costanza
Title:
Behind the Scenes at the House of Mystery
Characters:
Alex Toth; Bernie Wrightson; Bob Haney; Cain the Caretaker; Gil Kane; Howie Post; Jack Oleck; Jack Sparling; Joe Orlando; Mike Friedrich; Neal Adams; Robert Kanigher; Sergio Aragones; Steve Skeates
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Joe Orlando [as Cain the Caretaker]
Pencils:
? (photographs); Joe Orlando ? (illustrations)
Inks:
? (photographs); Joe Orlando ? (illustrations)
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Inside back cover all in mini-portraits. Haney, Wrightson, Post, Adams, Kane, Oleck, Toth, Skeates, Aragones and Orlando appear in photographs. Sparling, Kanigher and Friedrich appear in caricatures.
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