Comic Title: Welcome Back to the House of Mystery #1
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: July 1998
On Sale Date: May 13, 1998 Direct Market Date May 6, 1998
Source: Previews, Vol. 8 #3 (#111)

Direct Market Date May 13, 1998
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, May 13, 1998

Direct Market Date May 13, 1998
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of May 14, 1998

Shipping Date May 13, 1998
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #1278

Copyright Date April 24, 1998
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1998

Shipping Date May 6, 1998
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #1277

Cover Price: $5.95
Page Count: 96
Editor: Alisa Kwitney

Title: "Sno' Fun"
Pages: 9

Writer: Sergio Aragones
Artist: Wallace Wood

Reprinted From:
House of Mystery #199 (1972)

Feature Character(s)

• Cain (last appearance in DC Special #11; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Wallace B. Peterson (a polar explorer; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Professor Strauss (Peterson's boss; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Members of Peterson's expedition (Howard and Morgan named; no further appearances)
• A race of subterranean ice men (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While reading the obituaries, Cain hears screams coming from the room of Dr. Peterson. Wallace Peterson is a polar explorer. He murdered his boss in order to lead an expedition to Antarctica where he believed he would find a lost city. Soon after the expedition arrived, Peterson got lost and fell into a deep cavern. There he met a race of subterranean men who led him to the lost city.

Peterson was amazed by the city and its people. They were also intrigued by the doctor for it had been a long time since they had contact with the surface. Peterson answered their questions, but he was not allowed to leave. Years passed until he convinced one of his guards to lead him to the surface. Once there, the guard died from exposure to the outside world.

Peterson was found by other explorers. Doctors examined him and discovered a change to his body chemistry. His natural body temperature was now abnormally low. Peterson was released, and he came to reside at the House of Mystery. When Cain reaches the doctor's room to investigate the screams, the noise has stopped. Peterson has melted and turned into a puddle of water, much like his guard did upon reaching the surface.