The Unexpected #133

Two boys creep through a moonlit graveyard, one crouching behind a headstone while the other stands alert, as shadowy figures loom in the eerie distance among bare, twisted trees — it's a genuinely unsettling scene that sets the tone perfectly for DC's long-running horror anthology. This March 1972 issue of The Unexpected packs 52 big pages of chills, with interior work by writer George Kashdan and artist Dick Dillin, while Jack Sparling's cover art poses the delicious dare: "Have you the nerve to face the Unexpected?" The featured tale, "School for Fear," promises the kind of eerie storytelling this title did so well, alongside the wonderfully titled "Agnes Doesn't Haunt Here Anymore!" — two reasons to dive in.