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Issue: The Unexpected #221

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Publication Date: April 1982

Issue #221
- Tales of the Unexpected
- #211
- #212
- #213
- #214
- #215
- #216
- #217
- #218
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Issues: #221 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: 01/05/1982

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: 6 (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 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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Variants2

The Unexpected #221 [Direct Sales]

The Unexpected #221 [Newsstand]

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

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

The Trouble With Air

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-853

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction, war

Character(s): Robert; Jeff; Al; Richard; David; Karen; Abby

First Line: My God! Welcome to hell, gang!

Synopsis: Six astronaut scientists return home to "The Day After Doomsday" and decide to repopulate the planet. Their experiments create evolved adult children in less than a year. The evolved men and women abandon their cold-hearted parents, leaving them to their own devices.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Showcase Presents: The Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights #[nn] published August 2014
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: J-7550

Notes: The astronauts consist of three men and three woman. However, five male names are given over the course of the story (Robert, Jeff, Al, Richard, and David). Two of the three women are named Karen and Abby.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: L-943

Notes: Snyder credit per Gary Usher's Robin Snyder Comic Book List. Letters section includes a personal reply by Robin Snyder to a fan (Scott Hughes) over a letter he wrote. Comments from Jim Valencia, Jim Plank, Michael Iacca, Sue Randall, Charles David Haskell and Scott Hughes.

EM the Energy Monster!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Dr. Bazom; General Kibor

Synopsis: An alien energy monster crash lands and tries to find the right material to defend himself against the locals.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

Job Number: J-5608

Good Deed

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charlie

Synopsis: Charlie stops a mugging by accidentally killing a man, but stops the wrong mugger.

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Pages: 1

Trouble with Air!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Lamount; Curly

Synopsis: An astronaut is saved by aliens on Pluto.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7069