This listing is for Unexpected #128, published by DC Comics in October 1971.
The comic is graded CGC 6.5 and features cover artwork by acclaimed DC artist Nick Cardy.
This 52-page Bronze Age horror issue also includes interior artwork by Bernie Wrightson, along with stories illustrated by Bob Brown, Frank Giacoia, Sid Greene, Nick Cardy, and Doug Wildey.
Unexpected #128 offers a strong combination of classic DC horror storytelling and artwork from several notable Bronze Age creators.
Unexpected #128
CGC 6.5
Nick Cardy Cover
Bernie Wrightson Interior Art
52-Page Issue
DC Comics
October 1971
CGC 6.5
Bronze Age DC Horror
52-Page Issue
Cover Art by Nick Cardy
Interior Art by Bernie Wrightson
Interior Art by Nick Cardy
Art by Bob Brown
Inks by Frank Giacoia
Art by Sid Greene
Art by Doug Wildey
DC Comics
October 1971
Original Cover Price: $0.25
Unexpected #128 features cover artwork by Nick Cardy, one of the artists closely associated with DC Comics during the Silver and Bronze Age periods.
Cardy’s dramatic horror imagery gives the issue the distinctive visual style associated with DC’s early 1970s mystery and supernatural titles.
Cardy also contributes interior artwork to the issue with “The Prisoner of a Dead World.”
The issue includes “There’s More Than One Way to Get Framed,” written by Jack Miller with artwork by Bernie Wrightson.
Wrightson became one of the defining artists of Bronze Age horror comics, with work appearing across DC’s mystery and supernatural titles before becoming particularly well known for his association with Swamp Thing and his highly detailed horror illustration work.
His contribution gives Unexpected #128 additional appeal for collectors of classic Bronze Age horror artwork.
Unexpected #128 is a 52-page anthology featuring multiple supernatural and horror stories.
The issue includes:
“Where Only the Dead Are Free!”
Written by George Kashdan
Pencils by Bob Brown
Inks by Frank Giacoia
“The Vengeful Ghost of Glenville Gap!”
Written by Carl Wessler
Art by Sid Greene
“The Prisoner of a Dead World”
Art by Nick Cardy
“The Haunted Violin”
Art by Doug Wildey
“There’s More Than One Way to Get Framed”
Written by Jack Miller
Art by Bernie Wrightson
Together, the stories showcase the supernatural anthology format that defined Unexpected and many of DC’s horror and mystery comics during the early Bronze Age.
Unexpected was one of DC Comics’ long-running mystery and supernatural anthology titles.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the series became part of DC’s growing line of horror and mystery comics, featuring ghosts, supernatural encounters, curses, monsters, and other unusual tales.
Issues from this period frequently featured work by notable DC artists and writers, making the series particularly interesting to collectors of Bronze Age horror.
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