The Unexpected #135

DC's long-running horror anthology The Unexpected delivers a genuinely unsettling cover with issue #135, illustrated by Nick Cardy: a young blond boy climbs a rope toward his tree house, thinking he's found a safe hiding spot from his mother — unaware that a massive, monstrous clawed hand reaches down from above, waiting to snatch him. The story teased on the cover, "This Tree Bears Deadly Fruit," promises the kind of ironic, twist-laden horror the series did so well in 1972. At 52 big pages for just 25 cents, this issue offers plenty of dark fun for fans of early-'70s DC suspense comics.