The Unexpected #156

DC's long-running anthology of chills delivers a genuinely unsettling image on this 1974 issue: a skeleton — pointing an accusatory bony finger and declaring "I accuse YOU of my murder!" — confronts a horrified man in a tuxedo on what appears to be a stage, with a stunned audience silhouetted in the foreground. Nick Cardy's cover art sells the ghoulish theatricality perfectly, teasing the featured story "Death Is a Dummy in Disguise" with just the right mix of dread and dark carnival atmosphere. Inside, writer Carl Wessler and the multitalented Alfredo Alcala — handling art, inks, and letters — bring their own tale of terror to this twenty-cent package of the macabre.