The Unexpected
#117
(February-March 1970)
DC,
1968 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1969-12-04
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Midnight Summons the Executioner
Johnny Peril / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Nick Cardy (signed as Cardy)
- Inks
- Nick Cardy (signed as Cardy)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #254 (11 de agosto de 1970)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits confirmed in the letter column of The Unexpected #120.
Midnight Summons the Executioner!
Johnny Peril / comic story / 11.67 pages
- Job Number
- B-315
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Johnny Peril
- Reprints
- in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #254 (11 de agosto de 1970)
-
in Flash Espionnage (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #58 (août 1974) [N&B [B&W]]
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit confirmed in the letter column of Unexpected #120.
Hands of Death!
comic story / 3.5 pages
- Job Number
- B-371
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in La Maison du Mystère (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #1 (4ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
Indexer Notes
Draut inks per information in the letters page of The Unexpected #116. Grandenetti credited for "art" in story.
The House That Hate Built!
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Job Number
- B-431
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Clem Atwill; Rusty; Lydia Fowler; Frank Fowler
- Synopsis
- Clem Atwill tries to use his money to become powerful but soon realizes that he's wasted his money on a mirage.
- Reprints
-
in The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #161 (January-February 1975) which is reprinted -
in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #3 ([June 1977]) [Job number (L-430) deleted from this reprint.]
-
- Keywords
- quicksand; swamp
Death of the Man Who Never Lived
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Adams; Mr. Hubbard; Lemuel Rogers; Mr. Bremer
- Synopsis
- After a robbery goes wrong and Bremer kills Mr. Hubbard, he tries to pin the murder on Adams only to discover that Adams is a robot.
- Reprints
- in The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #161 (January-February 1975) which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #4 ([September 1977]) [Job number (L-414), and copyright details deleted from reprint.]
-
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-475
Indexer Notes
Letters from Johnny Sedgewick, Eric Scholl and Ed Bass. Includes autobiographical info by Sid Greene and Carl Wessler replies to a story he recently wrote.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Midnight Summons the Executioner
Johnny Peril -
1.
Midnight Summons the Executioner!
Johnny Peril -
2.
Hands of Death!
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3.
The House That Hate Built!
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4.
Death of the Man Who Never Lived
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5.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail
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- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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