Issue Details

Issue	#254
Published	September-October 1977
Cover Price	1.00 USD
Pages	84
Editing	Joe Orlando

Cover Details - "The Curse of the Sea Monkey!"

Genre	horror
Pencils	Neal Adams
Inks	Neal Adams

5 page House of Mystery foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Glad you could make it back, friends."

Characters	Cain; Abel; Loch Ness Monster
Genre	humor
Script	Paul Kupperberg
Pencils	Ric Estrada
Inks	Jack Abel
Notes	framing sequenc interspersed before, after, and between the stories.

10 page story "The Night Job"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Russell Carley (Script Continuity); Michael Fleisher
Pencils	Jess Jodloman
Inks	Jess Jodloman

7 page story "Good For Nothing"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Steve Ditko
Inks	Wayne Howard

1 page Abel's Fables filler "Abel's Fables"

Genre	humor
Script	Dave Manak
Pencils	Dave Manak
Inks	Dave Manak
Letters	Dave Manak ?
Notes	gag cartoon

7 page story "Dead Man's Bride"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Alex Nino
Inks	Alex Nino

7 page story "The Curse of the Sea Monkey!"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Lois Maiwald
Pencils	E.R. Cruz
Inks	E.R. Cruz

3 page story "Gregory the Gargoyle"

Characters	Cain; Abel; Paul Kupperberg; Jack C. Harris; Gregory the Gargoyle
Genre	humor
Script	Jack C. Harris
Pencils	Ric Estrada
Inks	Jack Abel

6 page story "Skin Game"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Abe Ocampo
Inks	Abe Ocampo

1 page Cain's Game Room filler "Cain's Game Room"

Synopsis	gag cartoon
Genre	humor
Script	Dave Manak
Pencils	Dave Manak
Inks	Dave Manak
Letters	Dave Manak ?

8 page story "Trial By Fire"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Steve Skeates [as Chester Hazel]
Pencils	Ernie Chan
Inks	Bill Draut

1 page Cain's Fear Facts! filler "Cain's Fear Facts!"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	humor
Script	Dave Manak
Pencils	Dave Manak
Inks	Dave Manak
Letters	Dave Manak ?

7 page story "The Devil's Plague"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Arnold Drake
Pencils	Marshall Rogers
Inks	Marshall Rogers
Reprinted	in Shadow of the Batman (DC, 1985 series) #5 (April 1986)

1 page House of Mystery Puzzle activity "House of Mystery Puzzle"

Characters	Abel (host)
Pencils	? (illustration)
Inks	? (illustration)
Notes	crossword puzzle

2 page Cain's Mail Room letters page "Cain's Mail Room"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters submited by Roger Klorese; Larry Lisowski; D.B. Webb; Jeff Kroll