Volume: 19
Price: 0.60 USD
Pages: 100
On-sale Date: 1974-08-08
Editing: Murray Boltinoff (editor); Paul Levitz (assistant editor)
Cover Thumbnail for The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #160 Edit Cover
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Death of an Exorcist; The Man Who Was Death; Over My Dead Body
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Nick Cardy (signed as NC)
Inks:
Nick Cardy (signed as NC)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-2211
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #109.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Job Number:B-2147

Indexer Notes

Detail from the cover art to The Unexpected #126, flipped and modified. We previously credited Pat Broderick, who may have had a hand in the modification.

Death of an Exorcist
(Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-2099
Characters:
Clyde; Marla Peters; John Peters; Satan
Synopsis:
A warlock makes a deal with Satan to try to trick John Peters into killing himself.
Reprints (3)

Over My Dead Body
(Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Ruben Yandoc (signed)
Inks:
Ruben Yandoc (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-2005
Characters:
Dr. George Mowbray; Lucille Mowbray
Synopsis:
Dr. Mowbray needs fresher corpses to continue his research.
Reprints (2)

The Fear Master
(Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7.67 pages

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?
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  • Genre:science fiction
  • Job Number:B-2149
Characters:
Harold Jukes; Vincent Adler
Synopsis:
When Dr. Vincent Adler dies suddenly, his assistant Harold Jukes steals his last invention, a ray that causes instant fear, and embarks on a crime spree.
Reprints (1)

Bewitched for a Day
(Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages

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?
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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • Job Number:B-2149
Characters:
Henry; Elise; Wilson; Johnson
Synopsis:
Henry believes that a strange little man has granted his wish to change his life, but it's just a prank played by his wife and a hidden camera TV show.
Reprints (1)

The Riddle of the Glass Bubble
(Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages

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?
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Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-1255
Characters:
Mr. Ward
Synopsis:
A mysterious globe arrives on Earth and will destroy the planet in 12 days unless a way is found to deactivate it.
Reprints (1)

Panic in the Dark
(Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Murray Boltinoff (under house name Bill Dennehy)
Pencils:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-1763
Characters:
Mrs. Tenborg; Ben Tenborg
Synopsis:
When a burglar breaks in, the squirrels that Ben has been feeding come to his rescue.
Reprints (3)

The Wizard of the Diamond World
(Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 6.67 pages

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?
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  • Genre:science fiction
  • Job Number:B-2150
Characters:
Nardan; Hugh Ordway; Dan Phillips; Zatina
Synopsis:
Professor Hugh Ordway uses an experimental ray to travel to another world inside a diamond atom where he helps a beautiful queen against a usurper who uses primitive science. After returning to his lab he wants to go back, but finds that time passes differently on the diamond world, and the civilization he found there is long gone.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Unexpected Mail / letters page / 2 pages

Script:
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:B-2208

Indexer Notes

Includes a note by Jerry Grandenetti on a story he wrote.

Doom Was My Inheritance
(Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 8.67 pages

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?
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Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-2218
Characters:
Simon Horst; Adam Lake; Esmeralda; Matt Lake
Synopsis:
Adam Lake takes a challenge to reach Simon Horst's emerald mine, 20 miles into the jungle.
Reprints (1)

The Man Who Was Death!
(Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 5.67 pages

Script:
?
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?
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?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-2219
Characters:
Fred Jones; Helen Jones; Ted Jones
Synopsis:
Fred Jones believes that his touch causes death.
Reprints (1)

Rest in Pieces
(Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 1 page

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?
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Letters:
  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • Job Number:B-2220
Characters:
Tim
Synopsis:
Tim makes his own tombstone, complete with date of death.
Reprints (2)

The Unlucky Birthstones
(Table of Contents: 13)

comic story / 6 pages

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?
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Letters:
  • Genre:crime; fantasy-supernatural
  • Job Number:B-2221
Characters:
Jim; Joe; Swami Salo
Synopsis:
A cursed bracelet of birthstones causes disaster for whoever holds the bracelet during the month of their birth.
Reprints (1)

The Enchanted Costumes
(Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-1249
Characters:
Roger Newton; Ronald; Joan; Clarisse
Synopsis:
Three enchanted costumes cause their wearers to experience the same fate as the costume's original owner.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Original title: "The Bewitched Costumes."

Among Us Dwells a Man-Beast
(Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 4 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-1896
Characters:
Pieter; Mayor Hendrick; Otto
Synopsis:
A werewolf is on the loose.
Reprints (2)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Death of an Exorcist; The Man Who Was Death; Over My Dead Body
  2. [no title indexed]
  3. Death of an Exorcist
  4. Over My Dead Body
  5. The Fear Master
  6. Bewitched for a Day
  7. The Riddle of the Glass Bubble
  8. Panic in the Dark
  9. The Wizard of the Diamond World
  10. [no title indexed]
    Unexpected Mail
  11. Doom Was My Inheritance
  12. The Man Who Was Death!
  13. Rest in Pieces
  14. The Unlucky Birthstones
  15. The Enchanted Costumes
  16. Among Us Dwells a Man-Beast
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