Tales from the Crypt #36 Values

Title: Fare Tonight, Followed By Increasing Clottyness...

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); un-named newsstand operator; Dr. Eggbert Muller (mythologist, death); un-named taxi driver (villain, a vampire)

Synopsis: A cab driver has a dream that he is pursued by a Dr. Mueller into a basement filled with vampire-occupied caskets. When he wakes, and Dr. Mueller actually shows up at his cab, he recognizes the dream as a subconscious warning the doctor may be dangerous to him so he takes the doctor to the basement he dreamed of and then drains his blood. Afterwards, the vampire cabbie returns to the earthen sod in his trunk to pass the coming day.

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) #4 (1979)

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

Title: Curiosity Killed...

Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A woman is convinced that her friend down the hall has been murdered by her husband and that he is disposing of her remains bit by bit via carrier pigeon to a local kennel. It turns out that her husband is in on the deal too, and he comes for her sooner than he anticipated since she has found out.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: George Evans

Inks: George Evans

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)

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

Title: Tight Squeeze

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)

Title: How Green Was My Alley

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A bigamist is decapitated by his two athletic wives when they find they've been deceived. The golfer putts with his eyes and the bowler uses his severed head.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)

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

Title: The Handler

Characters: The Old Witch (host); Mr. Rodgers (druggist); Mr. Stuyvesant (a contractor); Mr. Flinger (delicatessen man); various corpses [Mr. Smith; Mr. Andrews; Mrs. Walters; Miss Brown; Mrs. Shellmund; Mr. Wren (a racist); Edmund Worth; three unnamed gossips; unnamed lawyer; rest unnamed]; Merriwell Blythe (death); Mr. Benedict (villain, mortician, death)

Synopsis: A mortician avenges himself against perceived slights upon the closed-casket victims of his parlor by violating their bodies until a corpse who isn't quite dead yet overhears his gruesome doings and begs the dead to rise from their graves and stop this horrid man. This they do, and bury parts of Mr. Benedict under a dozen gravestones.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Ray Bradbury (original); Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inks: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich. The splash panel displays the latter part of Bradbury's name. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.