DC Special Series
#4 - The Unexpected Special
([October] 1977)
DC,
1977 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1977-07-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893370510
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1977. Date given as July 26 in Comic Reader #145.
Out with October-dated comics.
Out with October-dated comics.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #32 ([December 1977]), #32 ([December 1977])
-
The Corpse That Went to Camp!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD)
- Inks
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-3162
- Genre
- horror-suspense
His Killer's Keeper
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Kashdan (credited as Jack Philips)
- Pencils
- E. R. Cruz
- Inks
- E. R. Cruz
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-2612
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Dead Men Don't Talk... Often
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1738
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #27 ([June 1977])
-
Death Whistles a Silent Song
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-3046
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #31 (May 1978)
-
The Fiend Factor
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1995
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Weird Mystery Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #6 ([July 1978]) [Job number (B-1995) and story credits removed from reprint.]
-
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- David Michelinie; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-3740
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Corpse That Went to Camp!
-
1.
The Corpse That Went to Camp!
-
2.
His Killer's Keeper
-
3.
Dead Men Don't Talk... Often
-
4.
Grim Joke of the Laughing Skull
-
5.
Death Whistles a Silent Song
-
6.
Welcome Home --and Die!
-
7.
The Fiend Factor
-
8.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- John Censullo
- CTGarry
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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