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Publisher: DC

Title: The Unexpected
Issue: 157
Page Count: 100
Publish Date: May-June 1974
Volume: 19

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Unexpected 157
Owner: greggy

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Story Title: Who Will Kill Gigantus?; The Abominable Snowman; The Thing from the Dead Letter Office - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: Table of Contents - table of contents
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The House of the Executioner - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Loren Grue; Sheldon Sutton; Gorse
Synopsis:The Grue family were executioners throughout the ages and their ghosts continue to haunt the family home.


Story Title: The Corpse in the Dead Letter Office - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Margaret Poe; Luanne Lowry
Synopsis:Ghosts attack a tour group in a ghost town.


Story Title: Something's Alive in Volcano 13! - comic story
Pages:7.67
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Professor Eric Fielding; Joe Hiller; Dr. Susan Acres; Professor J. A. Pringle
Synopsis:A reporter and two scientists use a digging machine to search for a scientist who went missing while exploring a volcano.


Story Title: The Man Who Cheated Death - comic story
Pages:7.67
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Bill Lorman; "Big Benny" Doyle; Murdoch
Synopsis:"Lucky" Bill Lorman has a magic painting that protects him from death.


Story Title: The Mystery of the Sorcerer's Squad - comic story
Pages:7.67
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Lt. Jed Conway; Staley; Dick Larsen; Al Francis
Synopsis:A detective tries to catch a gang of crooks by tricking them into believing that three magic wands can help them in their crimes, but then it turns out that the wands really do work.


Story Title: Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation - statement of ownership
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Phantom Duel - comic story
Pages:5.67
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Pierre Monsard; Raoul D'Arles
Synopsis:Pierre Monsard's ghost returns from the dead to finish his duel with Raoul.


Story Title: Beware, I Can Read Your Mind - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Tello the Great [Johnny Carter]; Doctor Benson
Synopsis:As a child Johnny Carter is exposed to a strange radiation that gives him the ability to read minds.


Story Title: I Battled the Abominable Snowman - comic story
Pages:8
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Kurdu; Frank Martin; Jess Lewis; Mr. Tyndall; Floyd Jameson
Synopsis:Frank Martin braves the highest Himalayan mountains to capture a wild goat, but he must first discover if the legend of the Abominable Snowman protecting the wildlife on the mountain is true.


Story Title: Born Loser! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Lou Lowry; Mr. Bromley
Synopsis:Lou Lowry wants to go to jail so he'll get a decent meal and a place to sleep, but everything he tries to do to get arrested leads him to be a hero.


Story Title: The Dagger's Deed - comic story
Pages:1
Pencils:? (Phillipine studio)
Inks:? (Phillipine studio)
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A fortune teller warns a criminal that he will die by a dagger if he commits an evil act.


Story Title: The Mystery of the Teen-Age Swami - comic story
Pages:5.67
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Ray Weede
Synopsis:Ray Weede, a safecracker, discovers that a child has a device that predicts the future. He tries to use it to become rich and gets caught in the process.


Story Title: Body Snatcher! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Roy Cabal; Fern; Felix Pilcher
Synopsis:Roy Cabal begins stealing bodies from the morgue he works at which leads to him killing a co-worker when he is caught.


Story Title: Who Will Kill Gigantus? - comic story
Pages:8
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Mr. Calvert; Boehme
Synopsis:Calvert discovers a dinosaur in the wilds of Africa.


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Pages:2
Letters:typeset


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