THE UNEXPECTED #112

The cover shows notable wear consistent with a mid-grade Silver Age book: soft, rounded corners, several small spine ticks along the left edge, and visible edge wear/chipping along the top and bottom borders. There is a light diagonal crease running through the lower-center figure and some minor surface scuffing/gloss loss on the front. The book is currently housed in a protective sleeve, which limits full assessment; interior pages and back cover were not visible and were not assessed.

The Unexpected #112 arrived from DC Comics in the spring of 1969, part of the publisher's long-running suspense-anthology line that carried the company's horror and mystery output through the tail end of the Silver Age. Like most issues in the series, #112 offered a rotating cast of short, self-contained tales built around twist endings and macabre premises, a format DC leaned on heavily before the Comics Code loosened in the 1970s and allowed more explicit horror content. The issue carries no first appearance, origin story, or landmark creative credit that has drawn sustained attention from price guides or specialist collectors.

Market data for this issue reflects a common, low-demand anthology book. Certified sales cluster in the mid and lower grades, with fair market values rising only modestly from the $24 recorded at grade 5.0 to roughly $50 at grade 9.0, a shallow curve consistent with a book that sees occasional grading activity but little competitive bidding. The absence of any tracked sales or fair market data at 9.4, 9.6, or the unpopulated 9.8 tier underscores how little transactional interest exists once a copy clears the mid-grade range; census population at those grades exists, but the sales record does not.

This is a book bought primarily by Unexpected and DC-horror-anthology completists, dealers filling out Silver Age runs, and buyers assembling bronze-to-silver transition horror collections rather than character or key-issue investors. Low-grade raw copies trade as inexpensive filler, mid-grade raw copies move steadily but without urgency, and a top-census CGC 9.8 would likely command a real premium simply for being the finest known example rather than for any inherent story or cover significance.