The Unexpected 1968 #157 - 8.5 - $25.00

The Grue family were executioners throughout the ages and their ghosts continue to haunt the family home.

Ghosts attack a tour group in a ghost town.

A reporter and two scientists use a digging machine to search for a scientist who went missing while exploring a volcano.

"Lucky" Bill Lorman has a magic painting that protects him from death.

A detective tries to catch a gang of crooks by tricking them into believing that three magic wands can help them in their crimes, but then it turns out that the wands really do work.

Pierre Monsard's ghost returns from the dead to finish his duel with Raoul.

As a child Johnny Carter is exposed to a strange radiation that gives him the ability to read minds.

Frank Martin braves the highest Himalayan mountains to capture a wild goat, but he must first discover if the legend of the Abominable Snowman protecting the wildlife on the mountain is true.

Lou Lowry wants to go to jail so he'll get a decent meal and a place to sleep, but everything he tries to do to get arrested leads him to be a hero.

A fortune teller warns a criminal that he will die by a dagger if he commits an evil act.

Ray Weede, a safecracker, discovers that a child has a device that predicts the future. He tries to use it to become rich and gets caught in the process.

Roy Cabal begins stealing bodies from the morgue he works at which leads to him killing a co-worker when he is caught.

Calvert discovers a dinosaur in the wilds of Africa.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #103.

• Table of Contents - Table of Contents page with image from the cover of The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #144.
• I Battled the Abominable Snowman - Art credits from index of original printing; art credited here to John Prentice.
• The Mystery of the Teen-Age Swami - Art credits from index of the original printing; art credited here to Mort Meskin.
• - Includes brief factual anecdotes.