The Unexpected
#130
(December 1971)
DC,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 16
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-10-21
- 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.
One False Step
cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- B1147
- Reprints
-
in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #304 (26 de febrero de 1973) -
in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #13 ([October 1974])
-
One False Step
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-672
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #304 (26 de febrero de 1973)
- in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #13 ([October 1974])
-
Murder Spree
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-891
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #10 ([April 1974])
- in Doomsday Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #16 (April 1980)
-
Death Mask
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff ?
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed as RB)
- Inks
- Rich Buckler (signed as RB)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- B 744
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
The 'signature' looks more like a job number. If this really is Buckler's work it would be among his earliest at DC.
The Man Nobody Could See!
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- B-1142
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #3 (June-July 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
We formerly suggested Mort Meskin as the inker.
The Ghost Who Laughed at Locks
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ruben Moreira (signed)
- Inks
- Ruben Moreira (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-1143
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Synopsis
- Inventor Carl Farr "haunts" his friend and rival Emmet Durham to coerce a confession.
- Reprints
- from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #5 (September 1956) [retitled]
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "The Man Who Laughed at Locks."
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-926
Indexer Notes
Letters from Cheryl Leitz and Rudy Rankins.
You Don't Dare Dig the Gruesome Groupies!
comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- George Kashdan (credited as Jack Phillips)
- Pencils
- Art Saaf
- Inks
- Art Saaf
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese ?
- Job Number
- B-973
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Lemuel; Chad; Melba
- Reprints
- in Weird Mystery Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #9 ([February 1974])
-
- Keywords
- witches
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
One False Step
-
1.
One False Step
-
2.
Murder Spree
-
3.
Death Mask
-
4.
The Man Nobody Could See!
-
5.
The Ghost Who Laughed at Locks
-
6.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail -
7.
You Don't Dare Dig the Gruesome Groupies!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Wilhelm Dohmeier
- Jochen G.
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Mark Muller
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Jim Van Dore
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