The Unexpected
#179
(May-June 1977)
DC,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 22
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1977-02-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893070506
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #140.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in Death Mask for the Living
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD [overlapping])
- Inks
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD [overlapping])
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese ?
- Job Number
- B-3019
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
The Whole World's Upside Down
Batman; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
My Son, the Mortician
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-2419
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Milo Franklin; Lemuel Franklin; Nina Franklin; Ilene Darby; Jack Wilson
- Synopsis
- Lemuel struggles to learn the family business.
- Reprints
-
in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #21 (4ème trimestre 1981) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
- Keywords
- funeral home; mortician
Volume 77 Issue 8 - Week of December 21, 1977
Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis; Anthony Tollin
- Pencils
- Mike Vosburg; ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta; ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Bob Rozakis
Indexer Notes
Information on Isis #5, Secret of Haunted House #6, comics on sale the week of February 28th and Mini-Puzzle #4.
Angel in Black
comic story / 3.67 pages
- Script
- Bill Dennehy (house name)
- Pencils
- Abe Ocampo
- Inks
- Abe Ocampo
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-1633
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Katherina
- Synopsis
- Old Katherina had attended every funeral in town for years until it was time to attend her own.
- Reprints
- in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #21 (4ème trimestre 1981) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Letters
- typeset
Deathmask for the Living
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-2304
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Frank Furman; Mr. Gorne; Dell; Horace; Mrs. Bates; Martha
- Synopsis
- A costume maker's disfigured son is mistaken as a scary costume.
- Reprints
- in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #21 (4ème trimestre 1981) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B3021
Indexer Notes
Letters from Evan Wainright, Mark Schmieder, Suzanne Pearce and Danny Wesmoreland.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Death Mask for the Living
-
1.
The Whole World's Upside Down
Batman; Hostess Fruit Pies -
2.
My Son, the Mortician
-
3.
Volume 77 Issue 8 - Week of December 21, 1977
Daily Planet -
4.
Angel in Black
-
5.
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
-
6.
Deathmask for the Living
-
7.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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