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HOUSE OF MYSTERY #290

Cover Date: March 1981
Cover Price: $0.50

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Cover Credits:
Art: Joe Kubert (signed)


Feature: [No Title] (1 Pages)


Credits:

Len Wein (script)
Greg Curry (art)
Len Wein (edits)

Feature Character(s):

Cain [Host]
Abel

Comment(s):

Introduction page.


 

Story: "I... Vampire!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJ.M. DeMatteis
ArtTom Sutton
LetteringJohn Costanza
ColorsAdrienne Roy
EditingLen Wein

Feature Character(s):

Andrew Bennett (first appearance; a vampire and a former member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I; also in flashback to 1591)

Villain(s):

Cult of the Blood Red Moon (first appearance; a cult worshiping vampires)
Queen of Blood (Mary Seward; no actual modern appearance; former betrothed of Bennett; a vampire and leader of the Cult; also in flashbacks to 1591)

Other Character(s):

Deborah Dancer (first appearance; a young vampire hunter)
Dmitri Mishkin (first appearance; a 72 year old Russian vampire hunter)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Story Reprinted in:

I... Vampire! (2012)
DC Through the '80s: The End of Eras (2021)


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Second Story: "An Exercise in Fear!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMurray Boltinoff
ArtErnie Chan
EditingLen Wein

Other Character(s):

Cain (host)

Comment(s):

This story is not in DCU continuity, and will not be fully indexed.


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Third Story: "Special Defects" (7 Pages)

Credits:

PlotDon Glut
StoryGeorge Kashdan
ArtRuben Yandoc
ColorsJerry Serpe
EditingLen Wein

Other Character(s):

Cain (host)

Comment(s):

This story is not in DCU continuity, and will not be fully indexed.


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