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Issue: The Unexpected #218

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Publication Date: January 1982

Issue #218
- Tales of the Unexpected
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Issues: #218 of 118 Issues (156 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct Sales

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/06/1981

Volume: 27

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: £0.20 GBP
$0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age and Modern Age U. S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched (#1-156, #163-222); squarebound (#157-162)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

2 The Unexpected #218 [Direct Sales]

The Unexpected #218 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- Alligator Alley [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (8 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-743

The Cat Came Back or The Final Elbow!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Johnny Peril; Madame Xanadu; Cain; Mordred; Mildred; Cynthia

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: J-6513

The 17-Minute War

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Santa Anna; Sam Houston

Synopsis: General Houston tells a captured Santa Anna why he attacked when he did.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Job Number: J-7516

I'll Remember You Yesterday

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Joel; Professor; Rita; Fred

Synopsis: Joel travels to the future where he finds out all humans were killed a century earlier. Upon returning to his own time he finds a way to alter the future.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: J-6828

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: L-869

Notes: Includes a letter from Todd McFarlane.

Alligator Alley

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Tarka; Amanda; Jon

Synopsis: Amanda leads Tarka and his people through Alligator Alley.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Beast of Darkness #[nn] published January 1981
as Alligator Alley [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

The Mask of Medusa

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Mordred (host); Rona Douglas; Medusa; Athena; Perseus

Synopsis: Rona finds the fabled Mask of Medusa.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: J-7574

[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

First Line: Mee-owwww!

Synopsis: A cat thinks he is the new host of the Unexpected title.

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Pages: 1