The Unexpected #132

DC's Unexpected #132 (1972) leads with a masterfully unsettling cover by Nick Cardy: a blonde babysitter leans over a terrified, screaming child in bed, offering soothing reassurances — "It was only the wind!" — while a sinister shadowy figure looms outside the window, suggesting the child may know something the sitter doesn't. That tension between false comfort and genuine dread sets the perfect mood for the featured story, "The Edge of Madness," with interior work by writer George Kashdan and artist Jerry Grandenetti. At 52 big pages for a quarter, this is early-'70s DC horror anthology storytelling at its atmospheric best.