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51July 1960
$0.10

Tales of the Unexpected #51

DC · July 1960 · on sale 1960-05-12

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Series
Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series)
Issue
#51
Publication date
July 1960
Key date
1960-07-00
On-sale date
1960-05-12
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Space Ranger's Super-Enemy!cover1pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily; letters: Ira SchnappCryll, Myra Mason, Space Ranger, Rick Starr
1Buzzy Says: "Free Speech-- Free for All!"public service announcement1script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
2Planet Earth for Salecomic story7.67script: Arnold Drake; pencils: George Roussos; inks: George Roussos
3Your Passport to Amazing Adventures!promo (ad from the publisher)0.33
5Armadilloactivity0.5script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel
6Strange Adventures in Mathematics!cartoon1script: Mort Drucker; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker; letters: Mort Drucker
7This Is It!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Gil Kane; inks: Joe Giella; letters: Ira SchnappGreen Lantern, Hal Jordan
8Interplanetary Game-Keepercomic story7.67pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Howard PurcellJonathan Moor; Welsh; the Birch Brothers
9-promo (ad from the publisher)0.33
10How to Repel a Space Invasiontext story1letters: typeset
11-comic story2script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry BoltinoffDr. Floogle
12Space Ranger's Super-Enemycomic story8.67script: Arnold Drake; pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob BrownCryll, Myra Mason, Space Ranger, Rick Starr

Plus 3.83 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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