| Issue | #199 |
| Published | February 1972 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | Joe Orlando; Mark Hanerfeld (Assistant Editor) |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Neal Adams |
| Inks | Neal Adams |
| Notes | Cover title and cover scene are from two different interior stories. An earlier indexer theorizes a Joe Orlando layout, but it is not credited to Orlando at nealadams.com or in the Showcase reprint. |
| Reprinted | in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #5 (December 1972); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white] |
| Characters | Cain (story host); Gregory (gargoyle); Dr. Wallace B. Peterson (scientist); Professor Strauss (scientist) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Wallace B. Peterson wants the fame of the discovery of a lost civilization in Antarctica for himself and so kills his colleague Professor Strauss. On the exploratory mission he is then captured and kept prisoner by that lost race of monstrous men who want to know everything about the outside world. A long time later he manages to escape but returning to civilization he doesn't feel well and goes to relax at the House of Mystery. There he finally melts to water having physically become like one of those lost men. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Sergio Aragones |
| Pencils | Wally Wood |
| Inks | Wally Wood |
| Reprinted | in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #5 (December 1972); in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982); in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1 (July 1998); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white] |
| Genre | gag |
| Pencils | Sergio Aragones (signed) |
| Inks | Sergio Aragones (signed) |
| Notes | 3 gag cartoons |
| Reprinted | in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white] |
| Characters | Cain (host) |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Jack Kirby |
| Reprinted | from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #17 (September-October 1957) |
| Characters | Cain; Gregory |
| Genre | gag |
| Pencils | Sergio Aragones (signed) |
| Inks | Sergio Aragones (signed) |
| Notes | 3 gag cartoons |
| Reprinted | in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white] |
| Script | Mark Hanerfeld ? [as Cain] |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Includes letters from Karl Merris; Mark LeVeck; Phil Crosby; Ralph Alfonso. |
| Characters | Cain (host) |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Lynn Marron |
| Pencils | Rich Buckler |
| Inks | Rich Buckler |
| Reprinted | in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #5 (December 1972); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white] |
| Characters | Cain (host) |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Len Wein; Gerry Conway |
| Pencils | Bob Oksner |
| Inks | Bob Oksner |
| Reprinted | in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #5 (December 1972); 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] |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Jack Miller |
| Pencils | John Giunta |
| Inks | John Giunta |
| Reprinted | from Phantom Stranger, The (DC, 1952 series) #2 (October-November 1952) |