Tales from the Crypt #21 Gaines File Pedigree 4/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $8,400.00

Sold: Apr 10, 2022

Tales from the Crypt #21 Values

Publisher: EC, 1950

About Tales from the Crypt #21

Al Feldstein cover and art. Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, and Graham Ingels art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (inset)

Pencils: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inks: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #1 (1979)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: A Shocking Way To Die

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A scientist revives a man sent to the electric chair who then pursues revenge against the jury and judge that convicted him.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Al Feldstein

Inks: Al Feldstein

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #1 (1979)

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Title: Terror Ride!

Characters: George; Ruth; amusement park owner (villain, death)

Synopsis: A lunatic owner of a 'tunnel of love' ride replaces the wax figures in his lurid displays of violence with the more realistic-looking bodies of his victims so his customers will no longer laugh at the exhibits of his genius.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Woody] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Woody] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #1 (1979)

Notes: Letter credit revised from ? Roberts to Wroten by Craig Delich.

Title: House of Horror

Synopsis: Three college freshmen disappear one night as part of a frat hazing at a local haunted house.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #1 (1979)

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Title: Death Suited Him

Characters: The Old Witch (host); John Baxter (death); Nancy Anderson (John's wife); Miss Glass (John's secretary); Lawrence Cabot (villain, death)

Synopsis: The rivalry between two college boys for the love a woman ends when the poorer of the two murders the other, making it look like an accident, to gain his wife and money. To top off his victory he decides to steal the tuxedo for the wedding that the victim was wearing when buried, because he is convinced if he were not too poor to afford a tuxedo in college, he could have been her first choice in marriage. She agrees to the wedding, but on the blessed day, he dies from embalming fluid poisoning contracted from the suit.

Pages: 7.000

Script: (Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Graham Ingels

Inks: Graham Ingels

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #1 (1979)

Notes: Additional co-plot, colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich. This was Ingel's first depiction of the Old Witch character. Much of the story is told in flashback. Gaines based the idea of the Old Witch on pulp writer Alonzo Deen Cole's "Witch's Tale" radio program of the 1930's.

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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	0	1	3	2	7	1	7	10	8	17	6	7	3	8	5	1	5	3	4	3	4	3	0	0	108
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	2	7	1	9	11	8	17	6	8	3	8	6	1	5	3	4	3	4	3	0	0	114

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