Cavalcade of Awesome

Continuing my chronicling of Elvira’s pop culture appearances, let’s take a look at comic books.  One comic book in particular.

In the 80s, Elvira was so mainstream that DC comics licensed her image to become the new host of their classic horror anthology comic, House of Mystery. She would debut in the first issue of Elvira’s House of Mystery in 1986.

Elvira would introduce the stories and provide an epilogue. While the host, she introduced many different stories based on horror, science fiction and even westerns all written and drawn by a revolving door of DC talent.  The cover of the very first issue was drawn by Brian Bolland.  The cover for the final issue would be drawn by The Rocketeer’s Dave Stevens.

Ultimately the series would last 11 issues.  Towards the end of the run, around issue 9, the original host of the House of Mystery, Cain, returns.

And then Cain’s brother, Abel, who normally hosts the House of Secrets, also returns.

It’s interesting because Cain and Abel had been “in retirement” for a while.  Then Alan Moore brought them back towards the end of his Saga of Swamp Thing run.  Then Cain shows up in Blue Devil when he discovers the House of Weirdness.  Then they show up in Elvira’s book.  Cain is trying to find out where they’ve been but no one can remember.  He tells the things he can remember and it’s all the things I just mentioned.

After this, Elvira would last another issue then disappear.  There was no real tie up to why she left.

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