The Unexpected #198 is an issue of the series The Unexpected (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1980.
Synopsis for "Rage of the Phantom Brain!"
August Brueger has a brain with amazing intelligence. He worries that once his body dies,his genius will go to waste. He devises a plan whereby he dissects his brain from his body and hooks it up to a computer. His mind becomes the eighth wonder of the world solving complicated problems in record time. A lab assistant named Hugo Mauche decides to use Bruegers brain for personal gain. He uses the brain to plan bank heist and according to the brain, he would have a 98 percent chance of getting away with the crime without getting caught. During the heist, Mauche and his accomplices are immediately caught. Mauche makes a getaway and runs back to the lab to ask the brain what went wrong. Mauche finds that he was betrayed by the brain for attempting to use it for personal gain. He pleads with the brain that he doesn’t want to go to prison and the brain offers him a way out. The brain suggests that Mausche have an operation to hook himself up to the brain allowing it to control his hands and body. Mausche agrees and remains a slave to the brain forever.
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Synopsis for "Eye on Evil"
An old man Named Casey receives a pair of eyeglasses from his optometrist. He puts them on upon arriving at his home and he finds that they are not his glasses. The glasses he received allow him to see ghastly things that you normally wouldn’t see with the normal eye. He then finds a note stuck inside his eyeglass case about a midnight meeting on April 12 which turns out to be that same night. Casey arrives at the meeting site and witnesses a ceremony in progress. He recognizes some of the participants as being community leaders. He hears the group chanting that someone is coming. Casey dons the strange eyeglasses and witnesses the terrifying site of a large demon looming over the group. Casey surmises that the special eyeglasses allow the wearers to see their leader. He then decides to go back to his optometrist to report the incident. The optometrist turns out to be a member of the devil worshiping group and decides that Casey must be eliminated. Casey is about to be stabbed when the local Sheriff walks into the office. He thinks he is about to be saved but Casey then learns that the eyeglasses that were accidentally given to him actually belonged to the sheriff himself.
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Synopsis for "Never Hijack A Witch Craft!"
Three witches are traveling to England to attend a witches coven when their airplane is hijacked. As the hijackers threaten the passengers, two of them break out with a ghastly virus like condition. The hijackers yell for a doctor and Dr Amos Pribble steps forward. The doctor announces that the afflicted hijackers are in need of medical attention from a hospital. By coincidence they suddenly spot a hospital from the air. It is located on a desert island but the plane cannot land on an island. The hijackers strap parachutes to their afflicted hijackers and drop them down to the island. As the parachutes descend, the hospital disappears. The hijackers become convinced that they have been tricked by the witches onboard and their dark magic. As they go back to the cabin to confront the witches, they see that everyone aboard has contracted the skin virus. They panick and use parachutes to jump into the ocean to get away from the deadly disease. The passengers are then shown with a normal appearance. It is revealed that Dr Amos Pribble has a PhD in witchcraft and it is he who used his powers to make it seem like the passengers and hijackers had come down with a deadly virus. Dr Pribble is also the guest speaker at the witches coven in England.
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