The Unexpected
#131
(January 1972)
DC,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 17
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-11-23
- 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.
Run for Your Death!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Nick Cardy
- Inks
- Nick Cardy
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- B-1167
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Run for Your Death
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- George Kashdan (credited as Jack Phillips)
- Pencils
- Bob Brown
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- B-1029
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Lance Ervin; Carruthers
- Synopsis
- Lance wants to join a hunting club but ends up being the hunted, not the hunter.
- Reprints
-
in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #2 (1er trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #75 (juin 1982)
-
in Horror (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #143
-
- Keywords
- avalanche
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-1163
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Randy, George Entreman, and Gail Davis.
The Beast of Bristol
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Pat Gordon
- Job Number
- B-1174
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Alex Kent; Elliot Smathers; Meeker
- Synopsis
- English horror actor Elliot Smathers fears to lose his mind. Is he really going on nightly killing sprees in his sleep? Or is it a scheme of his agent to drive him insane?
- Reprints
-
from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #20 (November 1953)
-
If Time Runs Out!
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Dick Dillin (credited as Dick Dillon)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway
- Job Number
- B-803?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Ian Cheevers; Carter Cavendish; Lenore
- Synopsis
- Ian Cheevers steals a cursed clock, if it stops so will his life.
- Reprints
-
in Skräckens timmar (Williams Förlags AB, 1973 series) (1973) - in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #2 (1er trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
- Keywords
- curse; ghost
We Cruised into the Supernatural!
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Nick Cardy
- Inks
- Nick Cardy
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Stan Starkman
- Job Number
- B-1173
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Maki; Marsh; Alex; Peters
- Synopsis
- A sorceror named Maki offers a group of adventurers a voyage into the supernatural.
- Reprints
- from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #30 (April 1959)
-
The Upside Down World of Harry Updyke
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Dennehy
- Pencils
- Jerry Grandenetti
- Inks
- Jerry Grandenetti
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese ?
- Job Number
- B-981
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Harry Updyke
- Synopsis
- Harry believes that when he sleeps, his dreams reveal to him the real world, while the waking world is just a dream.
- Keywords
- electric chair
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Run for Your Death!
-
1.
Run for Your Death
-
2.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail -
3.
The Beast of Bristol
-
4.
If Time Runs Out!
-
5.
We Cruised into the Supernatural!
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6.
The Upside Down World of Harry Updyke
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