The Unexpected #219

Joe Kubert's cover for this February 1982 issue of DC's long-running anthology delivers an unsettling image that earns the series tagline "Fantasy Is Reality" — a giant wide-eyed blonde girl peers down at three armed astronaut-like figures scrambling across the foreground, one of them crying out "Hold it! I think we're being watched!" The scale reversal is quietly unnerving, blending science-fiction tension with something almost fairy-tale strange. Inside, George Kashdan, Trevor Von Eeden, and Ricardo Villamonte bring "Boxed In!" and more to a book that reliably delivers the weird and wonderful.