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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
Fred
Pencils:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Colors:
Marie Severin
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letters and colorist credits by Craig Delich.
STORY DETAILS
Title:
Stiff Punishment!
Characters:
Dean Martin (Fred's friend, cameo); Gibbs (a student); Jo Ann (Fred's wife, death); Fred (villain, medical college Professor)
Synopsis:
Jo Ann, fifteen years the junior of her husband, is sickened by his profession: a college professor in anatomy, and cannot stand his fascination with dissecting bodies and the like. After an argument, the two split up, but Fred decides on a fool-proof plan to kill his wife... or so he thinks!
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Pencils:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Title:
One Man's Poison!
Characters:
Dick Saxon (family friend); John (death); Mary (villain, John's wife, death)
Synopsis:
John and Mary fought tooth and nail all the time, until one evening, Mary decided to kill her husband. However, she had to make it look like an accident. Partially opening a can of beans, then letting it sit out for a week or so, she was sure the contents would provide the food poisoning to do the job. Every day, she would ingest a bean or two and get sick, then recover, figuring that if her husband ate a large portion of the contents one night, he would die. He did, but Mary celebrated the fact by having a glass of wine, not knowing it had been poisoned by her husband.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks:
Jack Kamen (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Synopsis:
Garrity was racing like a madman with his satchel of loot in hand while his partners were delaying the police. Heading toward the railroad platform, he discovered he did not have a dime to put in the turnstile, so he ducked under it, still running after the departing train. When the Police stopped him, they couldn't understand why in the world he was attempting to not pay the dime when he had half a million in his satchel.
Pages:
2.000
Script:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
? (masthead illustration)
Inks:
? (masthead illustration)
Letters:
typeset
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Al Feldstein
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Editorial; letters from Orner Shumate, James McCawley, Jr., Patricia Tribel, Bobby Nielsen.
Synopsis:
Carleton Ashley must raise $20,000 quickly or be forced to declare bankruptcy, meaning that he would lose everything he had worked for. The same day a Mr. Simms informed Ashley that he had a fool-proof way to double any investment almost immediately. So Ashley scrapes together $10,000, sees Simms and exchanges the $10,000 for $20,000 in what he believes to be fool-proof counterfeit currency. But Ashley soon becomes a victim of a scam perpetrated on him by his bookkeeper.
Pages:
4.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Quickie #1 of 2.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Title:
Four for One!
Characters:
Leslie M. Stevenson (city bank President); Donald Irwin (villain)
Synopsis:
Donald Irwin tells a bank President that he has exaggerated his wealth to a prospective client, and if that client accepts Irwin's offer, then Irwin must pay that client $10,000. What he needs the bank to do, to impress the client with Irwin's supposed wealthy status, is to open a checking account for Irwin, deposit the $10,000 that Irwin gives them, then gladly cash that check later for the client when he presents it. What the bank President doesn't realize is that five different people will appear to different tellers at the same time to cash a check.
Pages:
2.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Quickie #2 of 2.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Title:
A Fool and His Honey Are Soon Parted!
Characters:
The Old Witch (host); Armand Cartier (plantation owner); Nanette Cartier (Bovant's wife); Charles Bovant (plantation overseer); unnamed native Chief; unnamed Chief's daughter; Rudolph "Rudy" Marchand (home office representative, death)
Synopsis:
Armand and Bovant get together to discuss the soon to be unsettling visit of a man from the home office to inspect all plantations, and is well known as a gigolo (or love pirate). Armand warns Bovant that this man well go after Nanette as his next prize. He does and nearly succeeds when Armand informs Rudy of being invited to a native Chief's daughter's forthcoming marriage. When they arrive, Rudy falls for the Chief's daughter, the last woman he would try to win over.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inks:
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
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
2
0
1
1
2
9
7
14
12
7
15
7
4
12
5
6
7
2
1
0
6
4
0
0
124
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
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
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
Total
0
2
0
1
1
2
10
7
15
12
8
15
9
4
12
5
6
8
2
1
0
6
4
0
0
130
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