House of Mystery #290 (1981) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Joe Kubert; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Andrew Bennett
1	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Len Wein; pencils: Greg Curry; inks: Greg Curry	Cain; Abel
2	I... Vampire!	comic story	10	script: J. M. DeMatteis; pencils: Tom Sutton; inks: Tom Sutton; colors: Adrienne Roy; letters: John Costanza, Todd Klein	Andrew Bennett (introduction); Deborah Dancer; Dmitri Mishkin; Mary Seward (flashback)
4	An Exercise in Fear	comic story	5.5	script: Bill Dennehy; pencils: Ernie Chan; inks: Ernie Chan	Cain (host)
5	Special Defects	comic story	7	script: George Kashdan, Don Glut; pencils: Rubeny; inks: Rubeny; colors: Jerry Serpe	Cain (host)
6	-	comic story	1	script: Dave Manak; pencils: Dave Manak; inks: Dave Manak; letters: Dave Manak
7	-	letters page	1	script: ? [as Cain]; letters: typeset

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0709893053003
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
I... Vampire! #[nn] ISBN 1-4012-3371-6	2012	On eBay ›
DC Through the '80s: The End of Eras #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-087-8	2021	On eBay ›

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