The Unexpected #182

DC's long-running horror anthology The Unexpected delivers a genuinely unsettling tableau on this December 1977 entry, with cover art by Luis Dominguez showing a doctor and nurse examining a glowing X-ray of a skull — its brain eerily illuminated — while a monstrous clawed hand looms in the foreground and speech bubbles warn that their new patient "is a potential killer." The surrounding shelves of skulls and scattered surgical instruments set an atmosphere that's equal parts mad-science laboratory and chamber of horrors. Inside, Carl Wessler scripts the story "Sorry, This Coffin Is Occupied," with art from Ernie Chua — exactly the kind of macabre short fiction that made this era of DC mystery titles so compulsively readable.