The Unexpected
#118
(April-May 1970)
DC,
1968 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-02-03
- 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.
Why Was Everyone Afraid of Hester?
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Neal Adams
- Colors
- Neal Adams ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- 8538
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Pencil/Ink credit confirmed in the letter column of Unexpected #120.
Play a Tune of Treachery!
Judge Gallows / comic story / 11.17 pages
- Script
- George Kashdan
- Pencils
- John Calnan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- B-275
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- Judge Gallows (host); Destine; Jennings; Walton
- Synopsis
- Destine sells tapes that create illusions of reality.
- Reprints
-
in Toppserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #14/1970 ([2 december] 1970)
-
Indexer Notes
Writer, Pencil and Ink credits confirmed in the letter column of Unexpected #120.
Page 6 is a 1/2-page and page 12 is a 2/3-page.
The 7,000 Ft. Grave!
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska
- Inks
- George Tuska
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
The Face in the Ball!
comic story / 4.67 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Jerry Grandenetti
- Inks
- Jerry Grandenetti
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- B-210 ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- John Benson; Julia; Leland
- Synopsis
- John Benson buys a crystal ball that tells his future.
- Reprints
- in Toppserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #13/1970 ([november] 1970)
-
in The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #161 (January-February 1975) -
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #22 ([August 1976]) -
in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #20 (3ème trimestre 1981) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
- Keywords
- crystal ball
Why Was Everyone Afraid of Hester?
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Script
- George Kashdan (credited as Jack Phillips)
- Pencils
- George Tuska
- Inks
- George Tuska
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway
- Job Number
- B-464
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hester; Cedric; Uriah; Ed Sykes
- Synopsis
- Cedrick schemes to get Hester's land, not believing the stories that she is a witch.
- Keywords
- witch
Indexer Notes
Writer credit confirmed in the letter column of Unexpected #120.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Average copies preceding 12 months: 292,000
Single issue closest to filing date: 315,000
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-546
Indexer Notes
Letter from Jerry Wilson. Also includes two paragraphs from Art Saaf on his career.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Why Was Everyone Afraid of Hester?
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1.
Play a Tune of Treachery!
Judge Gallows -
2.
The 7,000 Ft. Grave!
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3.
The Face in the Ball!
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4.
Why Was Everyone Afraid of Hester?
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5.
[no title indexed]
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6.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail
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