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Issue: The Unexpected #222

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Publication Date: May 1982

Issue #222
- Tales of the Unexpected
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Issues: #222 of 118 Issues (156 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/25/1982

Volume: 27

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893070505

Price: $0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Dave Manak (editor); Dick Giordano (managing editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #199.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US, standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

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

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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The Unexpected #222 [Direct Sales]

The Unexpected #222 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (7 total)

No Penny-- No Paradise!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

First Line: This is it! The last mind-tingling issue of the...

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-858

Lilacs in February

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bill Crescent; Laura Crescent; Miracle Crescent

First Line: His wife died, but his baby lived!

Synopsis: A bald little girl, whose mother died at her birth, is blamed for the death by her father, until aliens come to retrieve her and replace the mother with a clone.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: J-7658

An Observation:

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): The Observers

First Line: Just as the human body or a piece of machinery needs a periodic checkup, so it is for cultures and civilizations.

Synopsis: The Observers check up on Earth.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: J-7658

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Ah. So good of you to return.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.75

Job Number: L-982

Notes: Comments from Laura Sammons, David Young, Paul Stachgowower, Bruce Lanthorn, Regina Holliday, William Howes, Aprille Curtis, Charles David Haskell, James Timlick, William Shirley, Jay Gilston, George McRobb, Boris Novak, and Mario Caya.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: Average circulation of 82,800 over the previous year; latest issue is 75,700.

Act of Contrition

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Tom; Brian; Mancuso

First Line: Dear Lord, help me-- The night is here again!

Synopsis: A police Lieutenant finds out his brother is a vampire.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

Job Number: J-7589

No Penny-- No Paradise

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Alexander the Great; Clitus; Philo; Charon

First Line: In the spring of 334 B.C. he led his army across the Hellespont.

Synopsis: Alexander the Great has no penny to pay for passage to the underworld.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7747