Crime Patrol #16 Gaines File pedigree (EC, 1950) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. The Crypt Keeper makes his second app...

Auction amount: $9,665.75

Sold: Jan 21, 2006

Crime Patrol #16 Values

Publisher: EC, 1950

About Crime Patrol #16

Last issue before the title changed to Crypt of Terror. Second appearance of the Crypt Keeper. Johnny Craig cover. Al Feldstein and George Roussos art.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Corpse in the Crematorium

Characters: Al Gregory (an artist); Jane Walton (Al's fiance)

Synopsis: A man subject to cataleptic fits is brought to a crematorium while his wife-to-be searches frantically for him. She fails to find him before he is scheduled for cremation, but what saves him is that the attendant notices beads of sweat forming on his brow before the gaping maw of the blast furnace.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Johnny Craig; Al Feldstein ?

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #2 (December 1950-January 1951)

Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich. Story foreshadows a 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV episode titled "Breakdown", wherein Joseph Cotton plays a paralyzed man lying on a morgue slab mistaken for a dead body (episode directed by Hitchcock). Thommy Burns, in Fantagraphics' October 2019 volume, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", reports that the script is by Craig, not Feldstein. Placed a ? by Feldstein's name and Craig's name added.

Title: Trapped in the Tomb

Synopsis: An explorer plots to kill another explorer by sealing him in an Egyptian tomb. His love interest foils the plot by fighting and scratching the bad guy for a note written in the missing man's handwriting. A third explorer realizes the fink is up to no good when he notices the facial scratches but the would-be murderer denies having seen the girl. The third explorer follows the evil doer and overpowers him when he attempts to toss the subdued girl over a cliff and then they rescue the man trapped in the tomb, who it turns out, is still just barely alive.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: George Roussos

Inks: George Roussos

Title: The Graveyard Feet

Synopsis: A mad doctor cuts off the body parts of his victims in order to experiment with transplants. One of the recipients turns out to be a reporter who finds that the feet have a will of their own and know how to kick box. Eventually, they lead him back to the doctor and once the cell doors of his intended victims are opened, they beat the doctor to death. The reporter's feet go back to being well-behaved now that their previous owner has been avenged.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: John Alton

Inks: John Alton

Title: The Spectre in the Castle

Characters: The Crypt Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A man inherits an estate on the condition that he survive a few nights in it since it is supposedly haunted by a ghost that has been known to kill a relative at times. He accepts the risk, and after he arrives odd things begin to happen, but it turns out not to have anything to do with the supernatural, but a greedy probate lawyer attempting to do away with him to gain control of the estate.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Al Feldstein

Inks: Al Feldstein

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	2	5	1	4	4	3	4	2	5	3	1	0	1	2	0	2	2	6	0	0	53
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	2	6	1	4	4	4	4	3	5	3	2	0	1	2	0	2	2	6	0	0	58

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