Tales from the Crypt #24 Gaines File Pedigree 11/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $8,400.00

Sold: Apr 10, 2022

Tales from the Crypt #24 Values

Publisher: EC, 1951

About Tales from the Crypt #24

Al Feldstein cover. Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, and Johnny Craig art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)

Pencils: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inks: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin

Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

Reprints: EC Portfolio (Russ Cochran, 1971 series) #1 (), | Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979), | Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Bats In My Belfry!

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

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: The Living Death!

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: Edgar Allan Poe (story); Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script adaptation)

Pencils: Graham Ingels

Inks: Graham Ingels

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)

Notes: Swipe from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar". Colorist and letterer credits added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: Curse!

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

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)

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. Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

Title: Midnight Snack!

Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host); Duncan Reynolds; unnamed 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: Johnny Craig

Pencils: Johnny Craig

Inks: Johnny Craig

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: Scared To Death!

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

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits added by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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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	1	2	0	2	4	7	14	4	9	9	3	5	6	2	5	3	2	1	2	2	3	4	1	0	0	91
Qualified	0	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	1
Signature Series	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	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	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Total	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	5	10	14	5	10	11	3	5	6	2	5	3	2	1	2	2	3	4	1	0	0	99

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