The Unexpected #138

Nick Cardy's cover for this 1972 DC anthology delivers an unsettling scene straight from the shadows of the supernatural — a figure manipulates a voodoo doll while, in the foreground, a man convulses helplessly, seemingly at the mercy of forces he once dismissed as "superstitious nonsense." The story featured inside, "Strange Secret of the Huan Shan Idol," promises more of the eerie thrills DC's horror anthologies did so well, with Carl Wessler writing and Wally Wood handling both art and inks. The Unexpected #138 is a fine example of early-seventies DC horror at its atmospheric, nerve-rattling best.