Tales from the Crypt #42 Gaines File Pedigree 8/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $6,000.00

Sold: Apr 10, 2022

Tales from the Crypt #42 Values

Publisher: EC, 1954

About Tales from the Crypt #42

Vampire cover by Jack Davis. Story art by Davis, Jack Kamen, Bernie Krigstein, and Graham Ingels.

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COVER DETAILS

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

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Concerto for Violin and Werewolf

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Sacha Barak (concert violinist, death); Marta (death); Rudolf; Vasile Iorga (villain, Sacha's violin teacher, a werewolf)

Synopsis: A violinist who has read "Midnight Mess" in Tales from the Crypt #35 suspects that the Transylvanian town he has come to visit his old teacher in has a werewolf infestation problem. However, his suspicions do not go deep enough, as he overlooks his teacher, who has replaced his sub-machine gun with a violin.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

Notes: Writer revision from Al Feldstein to Carl Wessler by Craig Delich 2013-4-17 per EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" (2013).

Title: By The Dawn's Early Light

Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A man who has just flown in into New York from Illinois ties up a man he suspects of being a vampire just before dawn and makes him lie in a coffin. When he doesn't fall asleep at dawn, he unties him, and the vampire leaps for his throat reminding him that Illinois is an hour behind New York and he forgot to reset his watch.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Jack Kamen [as J. Kamen] (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen [as J. Kamen] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

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

Title: The Bath

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Senor Pedro Tobosa (silver mine owner); Juan Vendoza (Radul's brother, death); Radul's Parents (both die); Senor Pedro Tobosa (silver mine owner, death); Radul Vendoza (villain by revenge, Tabosa's servant)

Synopsis: A servant of the owner of a silver mine fills his bath with piranha after the mine owner unknowningly works the servant's younger brother to death and shoots his parents who were attempting to extract revenge. But his servant has an ideal revenge planned for his master.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Al Feldstein; Jack Oleck ?

Pencils: Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)

Inks: Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Feldstein script credit per Greg Sadowski in "Master Race and Other Stories" (2018). Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

Title: Hoodwinked!

Characters: The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: A woman commits suicide when her fiancee's younger brother gets drunk and rapes her. The older brother cuts his head off and uses it as the car ornament that the younger brother had asked him for.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inks: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

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

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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	2	6	6	6	11	11	12	13	15	11	13	9	7	10	6	3	2	2	1	6	0	0	0	0	154
Qualified	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
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12
Total	2	3	6	7	6	11	11	14	15	17	12	14	9	8	11	7	3	2	3	1	6	0	0	0	0	168

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