The Unexpected #125

DC's long-running horror anthology The Unexpected delivers a genuinely unsettling courtroom scenario on this 1971 issue, with Nick Cardy's cover depicting a towering, shadowy figure looming before a horrified jury and a defiant attorney who dares them to find the accused guilty. The sheer scale and dark, dripping presence of the silhouetted defendant sends the jurors recoiling in terror, making you wonder what exactly they're looking at. With interior work by Jerry Grandenetti and a story titled "Screech of Guilt!," this 15-cent issue promises the kind of eerie, twist-laden storytelling that made DC's mystery titles a staple of early '70s comics.