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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
Title:
Are You a Red Dupe?
Characters:
Melvin Blizunken
Synopsis:
This editorial illustrated page purports that the Communists are the ones trying to destroy the comic magazine industry, citing the Soviet "Daily Worker" newspaper and Dr. Frederick Wertham.
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Lyle Stuart; Bill Gaines
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Notes:
Inside front cover.
Tongue in cheek editorial parody in an attempt to link efforts to destroy comics to Communists.
Writer credits from Lyle Stuart himself, during an interview by Bill Spicer in Squa Tront (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) #12 (2007); and from Grant Geissman's book, Tales of Terror!: The EC Companion (Fantagraphics, 2000 series), who lists the writer as Bill Gaines; as well as Frank Jacobs' The MAD World of William M. Gaines (Carol Publishing Group, 1973 series) notes that Gaines worked with Stuart on the piece.
Title:
Four-Way Split
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Buck Gordon (pilot in WW2, death); Roy Dixon (villain, bombardier in WW2, death)
Synopsis:
An air freight business partner who used to man a bombsite during the war kills his partner by dropping him out of the plane directly where four states meet, knowing he will go free as they squabble over the jurisdiction of the crime. The corpse comes back and gives him a taste of four different execution methods with the last one being final.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Otto Binder
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Reprints:
Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)
Notes:
Writer revision from Al Feldstein to Otto Binder by Craig Delich 2013-4-17, per EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" (2013).
Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
Title:
Cold War
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (host); Norman King (Maria's lover, death); Maria Holt [Maria Harmon] (Paul's wife); Mr. Harmon (Maria's father); Mrs. Harmon (Maria's mother); Paul Holt (villain, Maria's husband, a zombie)
Synopsis:
Norman King meets and begins wooing a beautiful married girl named Maria. But that doesn't phase Norman one bit, so, when he decides to kill her husband and marry her anyway, the husband tells Norman a strange but true story about Maria and why he shouldn't be involved with her.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inks:
Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Reprints:
Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)
Notes:
Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
Title:
Inside Story
Characters:
two un-named Policemen; Fitch (villain, death)
Synopsis:
Fitch, a purse thief, is on the run from several Policemen after muffing a job, and chances upon some kids playing around and taking turns shutting up people in an old ice box. He figures this is the way to avoid capture, so he makes a deal with one of the kids to pay him $5 for hiding him briefly in the ice box. He tears the bill in half.....gives the kid one half and promises him the rest when he re-opens the door for him. Unfortunately for Fitch, the Police scare the kids off, and..........!
Pages:
1.000
Pencils:
? (spot illustration)
Inks:
? (spot illustration)
Letters:
typeset
Reprints:
Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)
Title:
Clots My Line
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Pierce Draynor (guest, death); Anton Chatfield (villain, master of ceremonies, a vampire); Ralph Peters (villain, night watchman, a vampire); Celia Pronick (villain, movie cashier, a vampire); Paul Dunkel (villain, maintenance man, a vampire)
Synopsis:
A television show about guessing the guest's occupation brings on a manufacturer of red ink. As the panel asks more questions of the guest, they begin to grow annoyed with the host, as the answers seem to dance around the idea that the guest may be a vampire. The host assures the panel that the man has a legitimate occupation, but they feel the host has double-crossed them. The host is delighted he has stumped the panel and reveals to the guest what he's won, a coffin, which surprises the guest. The panel descend upon him and drain his blood, relieved that he's not one of them.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Otto Binder
Pencils:
George Evans (signed)
Inks:
George Evans (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Reprints:
Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)
Notes:
Colorist and letterer credits 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:
Accidents and Old Lace
Characters:
The Old Witch (host); Mrs. Janet Carter (rooming house matron); Grace Salsbury (villain, roomer); Emma Lou Salsbury (villain, roomer); Charlotte Salsbury (villain, roomer); Eric Holbien (villain, art dealer, death)
Synopsis:
An art dealer murders a man in order to inspire three old sisters who create beautiful tapestries upon witnessing violent deaths of people. When he finds them not working, as they claim to be uninspired, he becomes frustrated with them and admits that he murdered the man before he sent his car smashing into the wall. Angry with him for tricking them, saying murder isn't fair......it has to be an accident, like when they pushed father under the train, and the next man into the path of a car, they dismember the art dealer and weave his body parts into a tapestry.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inks:
Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Reprints:
EC Lives! (Ron Barlow, 1972 series) #[nn] (1972), | Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)
Notes:
Colorist and letterer credits 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
4
0
0
3
3
6
10
12
16
13
19
20
19
10
11
8
11
3
7
2
4
0
0
0
0
181
Qualified
0
0
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
1
Signature Series
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
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
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
Total
0
0
0
4
0
0
4
4
6
11
13
17
13
19
22
19
10
12
8
11
3
8
2
4
0
0
0
0
190
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