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186July-August 1978
$0.35

The Unexpected #186

DC · July-August 1978 · on sale April 25, 1978

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Identification plate

Series: The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series)
Issue: #186
Publication date: July-August 1978
Key date: July 1978
On-sale date: April 25, 1978
Indicia publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Price: $0.35
Pages: 36
Barcode: 0709893070508
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Death Is a Grave Matter	cover	1	pencils: Luis Dominguez; inks: Luis Dominguez; letters: Joe Letterese
1	To Catch a Corpse	comic story	8	script: George Kashdan; pencils: Fred Carrillo; inks: Fred Carrillo; colors: Mario Sen; letters: E. S. Jordan	Phil Tracy; Mrs. Morse; Wilton Morse; Arnie Kelso
3	The Demon Fireball!	comic story	3	script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Sonny Trinidad; inks: Sonny Trinidad; colors: Mario Sen
4	-	letters page	1	script: Murray Boltinoff
5	Death Is a Grave Matter	comic story	6	script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Noly Panaligan; inks: Noly Panaligan; colors: Mario Sen; letters: Esphid Mahilum	Professor Clive Hawkins; George Walsh; Herb Mosely; the Fen Man
6	Outstripping Ourselves	in-house column	1	script: Jenette Kahn

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.12 GBP

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Series context

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Sources

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