The Unexpected
#127
(September 1971)
DC,
1968 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-07-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Follow the Piper-- to Your Grave!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Nick Cardy (signed as Cardy)
- Inks
- Nick Cardy (signed as Cardy)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- B-1063
- Reprints
-
in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #294 -
in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #10 ([April 1974]), #10 ([April 1974])
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Follow the Piper to Your Grave!
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-424
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Vic Mason; Mona Evans; Frank Lucey
- Synopsis
- Vic and Mona travel into bayou country looking for a real haunted house.
- Reprints
-
in Shock Classics (Classics/Williams, 1972 series) #1 (1972) -
in Skrækmagasinet (Williams, 1972 series) #1/1972 ([Juli] 1972) -
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #1 (August 1972) -
in Skrekk Magasinet (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1972 series) #1/1972 ([august] 1972) - in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #10 ([April 1974])
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- Keywords
- bayou; ghost; haunted house
The Cats Who Knew Too Much!
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- B-1062
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Michael Renner; Sally Moore
- Synopsis
- Butler Michael Renner kills his employer but soon finds out that her will stipulates he must take care of her cats or he will receive no money. Soon he begins to imagine that the cats are out to get him.
- Reprints
-
from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #8 (January-February 1958)
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Indexer Notes
Art & story credited to Jack Kirby in splash panel.
The Ferry Was Waiting!
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-1061
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Doctor Rawlings is transported on a night ferry whose captain died shortly ago. This way the deceased captain pays off a debt to the doctor.
- Reprints
- from Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #109 (May-June 1952)
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The $30,000 Corpse
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- B-855
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A criminal is released from prison but he gets an unexpected surprise when he goes to retrieve the stolen money he hid before he was caught.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- coal mining; prison
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-1056
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Jay L. Zilber, Bill McDonough and Helena Allmon.
Queen of the Snows!
Johnny Peril / comic story / 7.67 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher
- Pencils
- Alex Toth
- Inks
- Sy Barry
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor)
- Job Number
- B-1060
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Johnny Peril; Lee Allen; Subara; Bill Davis; Jack Gordon
- Synopsis
- Johnny Peril finds his friend Lee Allen, who just before he dies swears he has seen Subara the Ice Queen, who the natives believe lives on frozen Mt. Subara. Johnny returns to the mountain with two more friends, but only he encounters Subara. They refuse to believe he met the mythical woman until he produces her crown of roses.
- Reprints
- from Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #107 (January-February 1952)
- in Skræk-Ekstra (Williams, 1973 series) (1973)
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- Keywords
- avalanche; mountain climbing
Indexer Notes
Pencilling and editorial credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Also confirmed in the letter column of The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #128.
Frightened to Death!
comic story / 1.5 pages
- Job Number
- B-409
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man in a raft floating on the ocean finally finds land.
- Reprints
- in Shock Classics (Classics/Williams, 1972 series) #3 (1972)
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #74 ([April 1972] ?)
- in Skrækmagasinet (Williams, 1972 series) #3/1972 ([September] 1972)
- in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #3 (October 1972)
- in Skrekk Magasinet (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1972 series) #3/1972 ([oktober] 1972)
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in Skräckmagasinet (Williams Förlags AB, 1972 series) #3/1972 (6 oktober 1972)
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Indexer Notes
The letter column in The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #128 lists the writer of this story as Al Case, one of Murray Boltinoff's pen names.
Till Death Do Us Unite
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-987
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Truman Wilkes; Vivian Wilkes; Sara Plunkett
- Synopsis
- Truman Wilkes kills his wife but with no body he must wait seven years until she is ruled legally dead to inherit her money.
- Reprints
- in Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 ? series) #82 (Circa 1971 - 1973)
- in Shock Classics (Classics/Williams, 1972 series) #7 (1973)
- in Skrækmagasinet (Williams, 1972 series) #1/1973 ([Januar] 1973)
- in Skrekk Magasinet (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1972 series) #2/1973 ([februar] 1973)
- in Horror (Unbekannter Verlag, 2011 series) #7
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Indexer Notes
Story title has "Till Death Do Us Part" with "Part" crossed out and "Unite" written above it.
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Table of Contents
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0.
Follow the Piper-- to Your Grave!
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1.
Follow the Piper to Your Grave!
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2.
The Cats Who Knew Too Much!
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3.
The Ferry Was Waiting!
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4.
The $30,000 Corpse
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5.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail -
6.
Queen of the Snows!
Johnny Peril -
7.
Frightened to Death!
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8.
Till Death Do Us Unite
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