The Unexpected
#200
(July 1980)
DC,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 25
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-04-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893070507
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Jack C. Harris (credited) (editor); Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #178.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
House on the Edge of Eternity
Johnny Peril / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed as Andru)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed as
Giordano) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-384
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Johnny Peril
- Reprints
-
in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #[17] ([March 1981]) [Cover art enlarged and cropped to remove artist’s (Andru and Giordano) signatures.]
-
![Cover Thumbnail for The Unexpected (1968 series) #200 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1634/w100/1634824.jpg?2451378700485891807)
House on the Edge of Eternity
Johnny Peril / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Mike W. Barr (credited)
- Pencils
- George Tuska (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Smith (credited)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood (credited)
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn (credited)
- Job Number
- J-6456
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Looks like rain!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Johnny Peril; Sue; Carl Phillips; James Phillips; Heather Storm; Bascombe
- Synopsis
- James Phillips mysteriously disappears in front of his wife and son's eyes. Johnny Peril is hired to find out what happened.
- Reprints
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #[17] ([March 1981])
-
in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #4 - La fille du vampire (juin 1982)
-
- Keywords
- alien; seance
Never Betray a Witch
The Three Witches / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- George Kashdan (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Abel (credited)
- Inks
- Jack Abel (credited)
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy (credited)
- Letters
- Shelly Leferman (credited)
- Job Number
- J-5761
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You may think you're the foulest fraud... the baldest bluff...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mordred (host); Verna; Wayne; Verna's father
- Synopsis
- Verna gets Wayne to ask for her hand in marriage so she can become a widow and inherit his wealth for her coven.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- coven; witch
Indexer Notes
The Witching Hour
Summer Camp
Abel / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- J. M. DeMatteis (credited)
- Pencils
- Ernie Patricio (credited as Ernie B. Patricio)
- Inks
- Ernie Patricio (credited as Ernie B. Patricio)
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy (credited)
- Letters
- Esphid Mahilum (credited as Ispeed)
- Job Number
- J-6416
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When the weather gets hot...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Abel (host); Mike; Alfie; Marky; Pastor Stoneheart; G'Ruthu (demon)
- Synopsis
- The children at a summer camp summon a demon to take away their mean counselor.
- Reprints
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #15 ([October-November 1981]) [Illustrations of Abel (host) removed from first and last panels of story.]
- in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #4 - La fille du vampire (juin 1982)
-
- Keywords
- demon; devil worshiping; summer camp
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
House on the Edge of Eternity
Johnny Peril -
1.
House on the Edge of Eternity
Johnny Peril -
2.
A Flash in the Dam
The Flash; Hostess Twinkies -
3.
Never Betray a Witch
The Three Witches -
4.
Summer Camp
Abel
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Stéphane PETIT
- Jim Van Dore
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