Title:
The E.C. Artist of the Issue - Al Feldstein
Characters:
Al Feldstein (photo)
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Al Feldstein ? (credited to Gaines in text)
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Found on the inside front cover.
Title:
Poetic Justice!
Characters:
The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis:
A wealthy man and his son want the property of the well-liked elderly town garbageman and so they instigate a smear campaign to drive him out. First they get a license ordinance passed, and since he can't afford to pay it, the stray dogs and cats he's picked up are carted off to the pound. Then they get the neighborhood's children to stop visiting the old man. St. Valentine's day arrives and the old man is at first delighted to find his mailbox stuffed with cards thinking that the children have not forgotten him after all. Then, sobbing, he reads the poisoned missives one after the other that the wealthy man and his son have distributed amongst the townsfolk. No one sees him for a week so they check his house and find that he has hanged himself. On the following St. Valentine's day his corpse rises from the grave and tears the heart from the son's chest and leaves it as a valentine for the father.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Notes:
Adapted in the 1972 "Tales From the Crypt" film.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Title:
...On a Dead Man's Chest!
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (host); Steven Anderson (wealthy steamship line owner, death); Helen Anderson (villain, Steven's wife); Larry Anderson (villain, Steven's brother, death)
Synopsis:
A man's younger brother begins an affair with his wife, and, after a night on the town, the elder brother gets a tattoo on his chest of himself, his brother, and his wife arm-in-arm. The younger brother and the married woman hatch a plot to murder the husband where it will look accidental, but what they don't realize is that the tattoo will reflect the murder scene to the authorities.
Notes:
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Title:
What's Cookin'?
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric Edwards; Herman Ditter (villain, restaurant co-owner, death); Charlie Marsin (villain, restaurant co-owner, death)
Synopsis:
Two restaurant owners take on a third partner with ideas to make their roadside diner a success. He convinces them to specialize in chicken and adds broiling and deep fried to their eatery renamed the 'Chicken Coop'. The owners get greedy and decide to murder the newcomer in order not to have to split the profits with him. They tie him up and set his house on fire, he escapes, but is severely burned and makes his way back to his former business partners where he broils one and deep fries the other.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
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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
2
0
0
0
0
8
4
6
6
5
7
7
15
12
10
8
9
5
2
7
2
7
3
0
0
125
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
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
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
4
Total
2
0
0
0
0
8
4
6
7
6
7
7
16
12
10
8
10
5
2
7
2
8
3
0
0
130
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