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Issue: House of Mystery #288

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Publication Date: January 1981

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Issues: #288 of 321 Issues (405 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/23/1980

Volume: 31

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893053001

Price: $0.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Len Wein (editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #184.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #224-229)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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House of Mystery #288 [Direct Sales]

House of Mystery #288 [Newsstand]

House of Mystery #288 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (8 total)

The Piper at the Gates of Hell!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-368

Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

The Piper at the Gates of Hell

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Cain (host); Piper; Simple Joe; Adam Caufield

Synopsis: Adam Caufield rescues Simple Joe from the piper.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-6841

Open Season

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Cain (host); Reynold Carter; Jim Trask

Synopsis: Jim Trask has returned to take vengeance on the man who shot him and left him for dead.

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Pages: 3

Job Number: J-6651

The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Flash; Bureauc-Rat

Synopsis: The Flash stops the Bureauc-Rat and his Red-Tape gun with a hostess fruit pie.

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Pages: 1

Blood on the Sand

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Cain (host); Juan De Fiero; Maria Delgado; Roger Gallardo

Synopsis: Juan De Fiero, the bullfighter, fights a demonic bull.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: J-5438

When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Cain (host); Maureen Joyce; Liam Gallagher; Sean O'Feolan

Synopsis: Liam Gallagher get his revenge on the man who killed him.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: J-6598

Do's and Don'ts of Monsters!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Abel

Synopsis: Humorous Do's and Don'ts for Monsters.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: J-6675

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-644

Notes: Letters of comment from readers Bob Burros, "The Phantom Monkeywrench," and "The Phantom Stranger".