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Issue: House of Mystery #191
Publication Date: March 1971
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Issues: #191 of 321 Issues (405 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [character]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/12/1971
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets2
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Statement of Ownership
 
 
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No Strings Attached!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The House of Mystery #1 published April 2006
as House of Mystery #191 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-1049
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No Strings Attached!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Cain (host)
Synopsis: A puppeteer is evicted from his house and dies without knowing that the children he entertained have not forgotten him. His puppets come to life to enact revenge on the heartless man who stole their master's home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #24 [Direct] published August 1982
as No Strings Attached! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #1/1996 published January 1996
as Hevnens tråder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The House of Mystery #1 published April 2006
as No Strings Attached! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Job Number: J-706
Disclose Notes: Includes two-page humorous introductory sequence.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Room 13
First Line: In fortune cookie is a velly seeclet message...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-835
Disclose Notes: Not reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1, also not reprinted in House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) #1, perhaps due to the use of stereotypical "Chinese" dialect.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHorror #2 published September 1972
as Schwarzer Humor [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]Nur ein Gag nachgedruckt.
In Content Item: FlagHorror #4 published November 1972
as Schwarzer Humor [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]Nur ein Gag nachgedruckt.
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The House of Mystery #1 published April 2006
as Cain's Game Room [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-930
Disclose Notes: Sergio Aragonés script credit from House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) #1.

Three gag cartoons.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Job Number: J-1048
Disclose Notes: Letters submitted by Rudy Rankins; Bill Winans; Warner Bailey.
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Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Statement of October 1, 1970
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 180,642
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 176,497
Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 909 Third Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, wholly owned by Kinney National Service, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly-held corporation . Certified by Bernard Kashdan, Business Manager.
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The Hanging Tree!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Cain (host)
Synopsis: A witch's curse destroys a man hundreds of years later.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The House of Mystery #1 published April 2006
as The Hanging Tree! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: J-180?
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Night Prowler!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, a man and his wife are awakened by the sounds of a prowler in the house.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLimited Collectors' Edition #C-43 published February 1976
as Night Prowler! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRoots of the Swamp Thing #3 published September 1986
as Night Prowler! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagA DC Universe Christmas #[nn] published January 2000
as Night Prowler [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The House of Mystery #1 published April 2006
as Night Prowler! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-1015

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