House of Mystery #296 (1981) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Night Women	cover	1	pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Joe Orlando; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino
1	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Karen Berger; pencils: Joe Brozowski; inks: Rodin Rodriguez	Cain
2	Night Women	comic story	7	script: Gerry Conway; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: John Celardo; colors: Carl Gafford; letters: John Costanza
4	Work for the Dying!	comic story	3	script: George Kashdan; pencils: Ron Randall; inks: Tex Blaisdell; colors: Carl Gafford; letters: Milt Snapinn	Cain (host)
5	Killed in the Ratings	comic story	6	script: Paul Kupperberg; pencils: Fred Carrillo; inks: Fred Carrillo; colors: Carl Gafford; letters: Esphidy Mahilum	Cain (host)
6	New Hope	comic story	8	script: Dan Mishkin, Gary Cohn; pencils: Bob Hall; inks: John Celardo; colors: Bob LeRose; letters: Milt Snapinn	Cain (host)
7	-	letters page	0.5	script: ? [as Cain]; letters: typeset

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

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0709893053009
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
Legends of the DC Universe: Carmine Infantino #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77952-166-8	2023	On eBay ›

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