The Unexpected #207

A cursed star charm takes center stage in this 1981 DC anthology chiller, as a grotesquely melting face dominates the cover — its flesh dripping and distorted — while Johnny Peril stands urgently in the background, warning of the charm's deadly power. The rotting figure's defiant retort ("It is you who are about to die!") makes the confrontation crackle with dread. Rich Buckler's pencils and Steve Mitchell's inks deliver a genuinely unsettling image that captures the horror-anthology atmosphere The Unexpected did so well.