The Unexpected #185 (1978) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Cry of the Death Bird	cover	1	pencils: Luis Dominguez; inks: Luis Dominguez
1	Monsters from a Thousand Fathoms	comic story	6	script: Carl Wessler; pencils: The Redondo Studio; inks: The Redondo Studio	Captain Ransom; Bruce Ransom
2	Welcome Home, Killer!	comic story	4	script: George Kashdan; pencils: Fred Carrillo; inks: Fred Carrillo	Roy; Dr. Smith; Bernie; Gena
4	The Strangest Showcase Story in Twenty-One Years!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Joe Staton; inks: Dick Giordano; letters: Gaspar Saladino
5	Can Four Super-Speed Super-Stars Defeat Gorilla Grodd?	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: José Luis García-López; inks: José Luis García-López; letters: Gaspar Saladino
6	Cry of the Death Bird	comic story	7	script: Bob Toomey; pencils: E. R. Cruz; inks: Noly Panaligan; letters: Erik Santos	Timothy Shannon; Katie
7	-	letters page	0.75	script: Murray Boltinoff
8	Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation	statement of ownership	0.25	letters: typeset
9	Volume 78 Issue 9 - Week of February 27, 1978	in-house column	1	script: Bob Rozakis, Anthony Tollin; pencils: Don Newton, Al Milgrom; inks: Dick Giordano, Al Milgrom; editing: Bob Rozakis

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

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.12 GBP

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