Tales of the Unexpected #19 (1957) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Menace of the Fireball!	cover	1	pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown
1	Teddy Roosevelt Guardian of Nature	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben Moreira; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	The Man from Two Worlds	comic story	6	pencils: Nick Cardy; inks: Nick Cardy
3	Tomahawk; Superman	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
4	-	comic story	1	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
5	D-Day on Planet Vulcan	comic story	6	pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Johnny Knowland; General Thacker P. Kincade; Professor Kent
6	-	comic story	2	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff
7	The Human Lie Detector	comic story	6	pencils: Bill Ely; inks: Bill Ely
8	Men Who "Make" Ghosts	text story	2	letters: typeset
9	Measuring Rods	cartoon	0.5
11	The Menace of the Fireball	comic story	6	pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown	Dunstan Waverly Jr.; Dunstan Waverly Sr.

Plus 3.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
The Doom Patrol #117	1968	On eBay ›
The Unexpected #158	1974	On eBay ›

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