Tales from the Crypt #46 Values

Title: Upon Reflection

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); The Old Witch (cameo); The Vault-Keeper (cameo); Chester Wayne; Paul; Matt; Clara Hanson (the Mayor's wife, death); Mayor Elwood Hanson (villain, a werewolf)

Synopsis: The mayor of a small town vows revenge upon a werewolf that kills his wife. On the night of the next full moon, he and his posse encounter a woman they suspect may be the culprit, so he returns to his library to check on the signs of a werewolf in human form. When he enters the darkened room, he sees the werewolf's snarling face looming in front of him, and shoots several times. When the posse enters, are they in for a surprise!

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), | EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #1 (1973)

Notes: Script credit from "Mark" via the GCD Error Tracker (Error 3675, 13 April 2010), citing an article in Squa Tront #9; the original indexer credited Al Feldstein. The EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" (2013) also credits Wessler with the story. Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Title: Blind Alleys

Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: The blind victims of an unscrupulous and cruel director lock him and his dog up for several days without food and then release them into a maze with razor blades embedded into the walls. And then turn out the lights.

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) #5 (1979), | EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #1 (1973)

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: Gone To Seed

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset

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

Title: Success Story

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A woman and her parents move in with a man they nag constantly to get ahead in the world because he can't afford their demands for gadgets. Eventually the nagging pushes him over the edge and returns from the kitchen brandishing the meat cleaver. He giggles to the arresting officers "I not only got ahead, I got three heads." as they look over the three severed heads on silver platters in the dining room.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks: Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979), | EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #1 (1973)

Notes: Script credit from "Mark" via the GCD Error Tracker (Error 3675, 13 April 2010), citing an article in Squa Tront #9; the original indexer credited Al Feldstein.

Title: Tatter Up!

Characters: The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: A man is murdered by a creature made out of old rags in retaliation for killing the woman who was kind to the rag creature.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inks: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Portfolio (Russ Cochran, 1971 series) #6 (1977), | Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979), | EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #1 (1973)

Notes: Script credit from "Mark" via the GCD Error Tracker (Error 3675, 13 April 2010), citing an article in Squa Tront #9 and confirmed in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 2013. The original indexer credited Al Feldstein. Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.