Tales from the Crypt #2 Values
Publisher: Russ Cochran,
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Inks: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Colors: Marie Severin
Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Carl; Al (death)
Synopsis: Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash. Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. A similar reaction comes from a hobo and a woman, whose car he takes to his home, which has been foreclosed upon. Then he walks to his friend's house, but sees Carl without eyes and blind. Al walks to a mirror and sees his rotten and decomposed face, then is awakened...it has been a dream. Then car lights appear and there is a crash....for real!
Pages: 8.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Al Feldstein
Inks: Al Feldstein
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Characters: The Old Witch (host); Anna Cooper (Anthony's girl, death); Mr. Cooper (Anna's Uncle), death); Anthony Colton (villain, Cooper's chauffeur, death)
Synopsis: Tony loves and secretly marries Anna, a wealthy, but underage girl. When her Uncle discovers this, he threatens to annul the marriage, which drives Anna to her sickbed. When she passes, Anthony murders her Uncle, then brings a carnival prize to her mausoleum. He accidently gets locked in and survives nearly a month by catching leaking rain water and devouring the corpse, eventually succumbing to formaldehyde poisoning.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Graham Ingels
Inks: Graham Ingels
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Characters: Constable Vajta (death); The Elders; a vampire (villain)
Synopsis: Constable Vajta had finally tracked down the murderous vampire and taken him to the Elders for dispensation. Wanting to get the situation over as quickly as possible, they ordered the vampire burned at the stake and body thrown into a grave. Vajta protested, saying this wasn't the way to kill a vampire, but they wouldn't listen. The deed done, Vajta threw the charred body into a grave and stood watch......the next morning, the Elders found the constable's body drained of blood and wondered: had Vajta been right?
Pages: 1.000
Letters: typeset
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Alan Bitsby (owner of Bitsby and Company); Martha Bitsby (Alan's wife, death); Walton Farnum (Bitsby and Company accountant); Agnes Farnum (Walton's wife); Mrs. Dober; Paul Dober (death); Doctor Podos (medium); Harvey Hatch
Synopsis: Alan Bitsby sets out to prove that a medium is faking by asking him to raise the spirit of his 'departed' wife. Unbeknownst to the medium at the time the seance begins, Bitsby's wife is very much alive. The medium goes into a trance, and, with a great deal of effort, does succeed in summoning up the spirit of Bitsby's wife, at which point Bitsby triumphantly accuses the bewildered medium of being a fake and leaves. Upon returning home, however, Mrs. Bitsby is found dead as a doornail.
Pages: 6.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Davis
Inks: Jack Davis
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host); Bill (tourist, death); Jay (villain, tourist, zombie, death)
Synopsis: Jay and Bill witness a forbidden voodoo ceremony. Jay is captured and later meets up with Bill and they leave Haiti. Bill finds a package at home and is startled to see it contains a voodoo doll with a large pin, which comes to life and attacks Bill. Throwing it into the fire, he rushes into the hall, gets Jay, and returns to see the doll is nowhere in sight. Jay reveals that he is a zombie sent with the doll to kill Bill. Enraged, Bill rips apart the doll and notes it has a human heart: Jay's! And both Jay and Bill fall dead.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)
Letters: Jim Wroten
Pages: 1.000
Script: Russ Cochran
Letters: typeset
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Joan Gordon (Harry's wife, death); John Bayne (actor); un-named doctor; Joan's lover (death); Harry Gordon (villain)
Synopsis: An actor loses his hearing, so he goes to visit an unorthodox individual that a friend tipped him off to. This person recommends transplanting the auditory senses of a bat, to which our luckless hero agrees. Not only does he receive super acute hearing, but he starts to gain other characteristics of a bat. Unfortunately, it is only later that he realizes it was actually a vampire bat...
Pages: 8.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)
Inks: Jack Davis (signed)
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
Characters: The Old Witch (host); Lester Jerome (psychosomatic doctor); Arnold Manning (surgeon); Laurie (death)
Synopsis: Two doctors are in love with the same woman, but when she develops a tumor on her heart, and Dr. Manning operates on her.....but she dies. Later, when Dr. Manning suffers from a brain tumor, Dr. Jerome successfully uses psychosomatic medicine on him to save his life. However, a car accident leaves him dead for nearly three months, but also prevents Dr. Manning from decaying by post hypnotic suggestion until he hears the key word 'Laurie'. When he hears this word, he instantly dissolves into a bag of putrescent slime.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Graham Ingels
Inks: Graham Ingels
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Swipe from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar". Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
Characters: a zombie; un-named jewel thief (villain, death, becomes a zombie)
Synopsis: A thief makes his way through the Haitian jungle to claim a hidden treasure of jewels with a voodoo curse attached to it.
Pages: 1.000
Pencils: ? (spot illustration)
Inks: ? (spot illustration)
Letters: typeset
Notes: This text story has a title header image of two palm trees/jungle and starts "He patted the gun-holster at his side. It is NOT the same as the text story with the same title "Curse!" in Tales From the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #32.
Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host); Duncan Reynolds; un-named restaurant cook
Synopsis: Duncan Reynolds is reading horror stories when he gets hungry, and suddenly finds himself in front of a restuarant that is serving up foul-smelling food. He leaves and then finds himself in a cemetery, where he digs up and corpse, wanting to eat it. He passes out, then wakes up with the partially devoured corpse, hears someone coming and runs off with the body. He again finds himself at home, believing all to be a dream.....until he gets hungry and opens his refrigerator!
Pages: 6.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Johnny Craig
Inks: Johnny Craig
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Frank; Alex Weatherby (Cora's uncle, death); Cora Weatherby Kearns (villain, Ralph's wife); Ralph Kearns (villain, death)
Synopsis: A man weds a woman to secure her uncle's fortune when he dies, but gets tired of waiting so convinces his wife to be an accomplice to her uncle's murder. The guilt eats away at her and he quickly tires of her moroseness, so he hatches another scheme to do away with her and keep the money for himself. But Uncle Alex has other ideas!
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); The Vault-Keeper (image); The Old Witch (image); The Editor (image); The Associate Editor (image); Clyde Franklin (big game hunter, death of sorts); un-named Morning Globe newspaper reporter; Jeeves (Franklin's servant); un-named lunatic (villain)
Synopsis: A sportsman who is only interested in game for the trophy ends up the victim of a lunatic who thinks the same way about humans.
Pages: 8.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Davis
Inks: Jack Davis
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host); Donald Abelson; Judy Abelson (Donald's wife); George; an old crone (villain, death)
Synopsis: An old crone utters a magical spell that causes her to switch bodies with a man's young wife. He tricks her into switching back by convincing her that the body she has usurped is terminal with cancer, then shoots the crone, and buries her in the cellar.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Wally Wood
Inks: Wally Wood
Letters: Jim Wroten
Pages: 1.000
Letters: typeset
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A rejected young man buys a love potion that works a bit too well.
Pages: 6.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Kamen
Inks: Jack Kamen
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Old Witch (host); Marie (Henri's husband); Henri (villain, wax museum owner, death)
Synopsis: Henri and Marie are the owners of a wax museum, and Marie claims that the wax figures in the chamber of horrors tell her that they are being tortured, so she averts their eyes from their victims and lowers their weapons. This infuriates Henri who threatens his wife with death should she touch the statutes again. When he discovers Marie has altered the chamber of horrors to a scene more resembling a joyful party, he strangles Marie. The wax figures get revenge and turn Henri into a large candle for Marie's funeral display.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Graham Ingels
Inks: Graham Ingels
Letters: Jim Wroten
Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Max Moor (artist, death); Bob Dickson; Harry Halley (Moor's ex-landlord); Fenton Breedly (art critic); Mrs. Breedly; Arthur Green (art dealer)
Synopsis: An artist in Haiti realizes that he has been cheated by several people in the art industry and so seeks out native voodoo practitioners for vengeance. They grant him the ability to paint pictures with the property of voodoo dolls, so that what happens to the painting happens to its subject. Unfortunately he realizes that he has painted a self-portrait and so he must take care to keep it safe while he exacts revenge on those who cheated him.
Pages: 8.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)
Inks: Jack Davis (signed)
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A woman and her lover plot to murder the wife's husband. The lover's intention to ambush him in an alleyway goes awry when the husband runs across the street after being attacked and the lover runs after him only to suffer terminal injuries from being struck by a car. While he is being taken to the hospital, the husband returns to confront the wife, having realized she set him up. At first she is shocked her husband hasn't been killed, but then rallies, determined to finish the job herself. At the exact moment she strikes her husband with the poker she seized, her lover dies in the hospital room. But instead of remaining dead, the soul of her husband finds itself transplanted into the lover's body and he leaves the hospital in order in confront his wife once again.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Howard Larsen
Inks: Howard Larsen
Letters: Jim Wroten
Pages: 1.000
Letters: typeset
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: Roy Madison buys a farm from Hiram Becker with the intent of leveling it and turning the property into a flight school, however there is an Indian burial mound located on the property which Hiram warns Roy not to bulldoze. Roy scoffs at such superstition and proceeds to drive the bulldozer into the mound. After unearthing some skulls, the bulldozer conks out and it begins to rain. Later that evening, after hearing some weird sounding drums, Roy goes to open his door and screams in terror. The following morning Hiram finds Roy's lifeless body, scalped.
Pages: 6.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: George Roussos
Inks: George Roussos
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: A political rival for the office of mayor poisons the current mayor and leaves a suicide note confessing graft and corruption on the table in order to smear the mayor's past reputation and cement his victory in the election. However, a stray wind blows the note off the table underneath a bookcase. When the current mayor is found dead, an autopsy is performed and the whole town knows the mayor had been poisoned, but at the lavish funeral he wonders why no one found the note. Eventually the note does turn up after he wins the election, and he whips up so much ill will toward the previous mayor that they exhume his body from the graveyard and dump it out at sea. One day, while the mayor is out at sea fishing in a rowboat, a storm blows up suddenly. He attempts to bring up anchor, but it appears to be stuck on something. He peers over the side of the rowboat, and the hand of his victim's corpse thrusts out and pulls him into the depths.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Graham Ingels
Inks: Graham Ingels
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); M'sieu Matier (theatre owner, death, comes back from the dead); Pierre Matier (Matier's father, mention only, death); Charles; Arthur Mack (villain, movie producer, death); Miles Andish (villain, movie producer, death)
Synopsis: Two American producers want to bring Parisian-style, Grand Guignol, gory plays to a Broadway theater, but the owner refuses to do business with them. They shoot him and take the man's gory makeup secrets manuscript, but he returns from the dead and gets his revenge by swapping out the stage prop acid and red-hot stove with the real things.
Pages: 8.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)
Inks: Jack Davis (signed)
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A woman raises her daughter to hate men and so for six years she murders a husband a year, making each appear an accidental death, as trophies for her departed mother. The seventh victim is not quite dead when he drags himself from the airplane wreck she caused, and thus she has to finish the job off herself with a large rock. When he is interred with the other six dead men that are ignorant they've been murdered "the wind...comes up...seems to sound like a whispher...telling the others..." When she is alone in the cemetery the corpses rise and drag her down into the earth with them.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Joe Orlando
Inks: Joe Orlando
Letters: Jim Wroten
Pages: 1.000
Letters: Typeset
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A woman ends up getting pregnant by her husband's ghost!
Pages: 6.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Kamen
Inks: Jack Kamen
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: A member of the French nobility during the Terror betrays his fellow's confidence in order to curry favor with the revolutionary government. The servant of his latest duped victim demonstrates to him in the market how chickens can live with their heads cut off for quite some time and suggests that perhaps the same may be true of humans. He laughs this off as the servant merely attempting to frighten him, but later that evening, the servant does indeed guide the headless body of his former master to acquire vengeance.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Graham Ingels
Inks: Graham Ingels
Letters: Jim Wroten
Pages: 1.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: ? (photograph)
Inks: ? (photograph)
Letters: typeset
Notes: EC Artist of the Month
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mel (medical college student); Sid (medical college student); George's un-named landlady; Clem (medical college handyman); Zeke (grave digger); Hank (grave-digger); Fogerty (Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Company representative); Alex Lawrence (villain, death); George Arkman (villain, death)
Synopsis: Two medical students need to procure a corpse in order to get an anatomy credit to graduate and pay an imbecile five bucks to dig and grave rob a newly dug grave. The target of their efforts is a man convinced by his 'friend' to take a drug that will emulate the death-like appearance in order to collect a forty thousand dollar insurance policy, not knowing that his friend is going to betray him and abscond with the $40,000!
Pages: 8.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Davis
Inks: Jack Davis
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A hypnotist places his wife in a trance and commands her to stop her heart. He brings her out of it with the phrase 'snap out of it'. When he falls for another woman, they decide to murder the wife by using the words 'wake up' instead, which won't bring her out of the trance. After she has been dead and buried for a year he brings his lover to the gravesite for appearances sake. She becomes hysterically overcome with guilt and he uses the phrase 'snap out of it'. They head back toward the cemetery entrance, but the grave erupts open and the corpse of his former wife lurches towards them. She hypnotizes them both and inflicts the same heart failure on them.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Joe Orlando
Inks: Joe Orlando
Letters: Jim Wroten
Pages: 1.000
Letters: typeset
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Al Feldstein
Inks: Al Feldstein
Letters: typeset
Notes: Letters from Donald Pachuta, Rick Klewer.
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: An elderly man is fired due to age discrimination and returns to Haiti to work revenge upon his boss. He asks a voodoo practitioner for a tree that will grow in reverse while sympathetically affecting the same change in his former boss, and it works. The trees ends up as an acorn and the boss de-ages all the way past infancy to ?
Pages: 6.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Jack Kamen
Inks: Jack Kamen
Letters: Jim Wroten
Characters: The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: A man with a homicidal head growing out of his wrist pursues the career path of a ventriloquist.
Pages: 7.000
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Graham Ingels
Inks: Graham Ingels
Letters: Jim Wroten
Pages: 1.000
Pencils: Al Feldstein
Inks: Al Feldstein
Notes: On back cover.
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