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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)
STORY DETAILS
Title:
Operation Friendship
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Philip (engineer, lives on as a brain only); Jondra (Philip's fiance); Joan; Dr. Andrew Hobart (villain)
Synopsis:
A mad surgeon cuts out 75% of his married friend's brain so that he can maintain it in a vat and enjoy the mental stimulation of his company while his dumb wife gets the remaining 25% of his brain and his body and never notices the difference.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Otto Binder
Pencils:
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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).
Title:
Come Back, Little Linda
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (host); Dr. Morgan Ullman; Eric Hagen
Synopsis:
In order to save money, the management of an insane asylum moves the patients into dungeon cells that the hospital was built on. When an inspection notice from the state board arrives, the doctor panics and orders that all the patients return to their wards. Their scheme is undone when one old crazy man refuses to be bullied into silence, crying out to the inspectors that they've taken his beloved 'Linda' away from him. When they follow his headlong dash downstairs, they find that 'Linda' is a rather large dungeon rat.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
George Evans
Inks:
George Evans
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Title:
Air-Tight
Pages:
1.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Current Attraction
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis:
A circus father attempts to get the knife thrower out of his daughter's life by placing a bar magnet behind the board the knife thrower's wife stands in front of while he does his act, but the daughter convinces the wife to leave him and she takes her place in the act.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
Jack Kamen
Inks:
Jack Kamen
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Title:
Mess Call
Characters:
The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis:
A German soldier addled by his experiences in the trenches of WWI is recruited by a butcher in the following war to dispose of patrons in the cellar so that he has plenty of meat to sell.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
Graham Ingels
Inks:
Graham Ingels
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Title:
Notes
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Russ Cochran
Letters:
typeset
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
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:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
Jack Kamen
Inks:
Jack Kamen
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Title:
On Ice!
Pages:
1.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
The Bath
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
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.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
Bernie Krigstein
Inks:
Bernie Krigstein
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
Graham Ingels
Inks:
Graham Ingels
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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
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).
Letterer credit 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
Notes:
Letterer credit 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
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:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
George Evans (signed)
Inks:
George Evans (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
Graham Ingels
Inks:
Graham Ingels
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich, letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
Title:
Forever Ambergris
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eileen Harper (Ben's wife); Ben Harper (Sultana's 1st Mate, death); Captain Matt Starke (villain, Sultana skipper)
Synopsis:
A sea captain murders a man for his wife by having him row out to a plague island where he contracts the disease. When he is rotting away they toss him overboard, but a whale swallows him and then vomits him up. The captain knows the spew is valuable for perfume so he collects it and presents it to the murdered man's wife where she dons it in the bathroom and opens the door to reveal her instantaneously rotting flesh.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Title:
Burial At Sea
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis:
A man kills an old man for 30 thirty gold coins and thinks that there must be more to the treasure when he finds a treasure map locating a spot just offshore under water. The old man claimed he had been 'prepared' for him and when he visits the location marked underwater he realizes the old man was right as it is a grave marker with his name on it that falls over on his diving suit keeping him pinned until he drowns.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Reed Crandall
Inks:
Reed Crandall
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Title:
Gunman
Pages:
1.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
The Proposal
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis:
A woman who uses men to stay surrounded by the finer things in life finally hears what she wants to hear "I want you for my wife." In this case, her intended sucker literally wants her for a meal to his undead blood-sucker wife.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Jack Kamen
Inks:
Jack Kamen
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Title:
The Sliceman Cometh
Characters:
The Old Witch (host); corpse; executioner (villain, death)
Synopsis:
An executioner during the Terror, who takes money from a relative in order to guillotine his brother, finds he has a difficult time in getting rid of the head. Eventually he becomes frustrated with his efforts to dispose of the ever-returning head and picks up a cleaver and minces it. That evening, he receives a visit from the corpse who wants its head back, and finding that not possible, rips the head from the executioner's shoulders to use in its place.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Graham Ingels
Inks:
Graham Ingels
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Title:
Telescope
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric Walford (seaman on the Bramwell, death)
Synopsis:
A man and a rat from a ship wreck wash up on an island and eye each other warily as the only food source available.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Title:
The Substitute
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis:
A man assumes that the body of the governor of the penal colony he is a prisoner in will be sent back to Paris, so he kills him with a poisoned dart from a blowgun and makes plans to switch places with his body in the casket. They nail him in and bury him at sea.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Jack Kamen
Inks:
Jack Kamen
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Title:
This Is An Appeal For Action!
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Squeeze Play
Pages:
1.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Murder Dream
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis:
A maniac ax-murderer assumes his victim's identity in his dreams until he is compelled to return to the scene of the crime to murder the victim's wife as well.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Bernie Krigstein
Inks:
Bernie Krigstein
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Title:
The Switch
Characters:
The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis:
An old millionaire falls in love with a young woman but he doesn't want her to marry him for his money so he tells her he's poor. She puts him off telling him his face is too old-looking and he still has an old-man's body so he gets a doctor to do an expensive face and torso transplant, but she still isn't satisfied because of his legs. He spends the last of his fortune to swap out his legs and she marries the man he has swapped body parts with because she only wanted to marry a millionaire.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Carl Wessler
Pencils:
Graham Ingels
Inks:
Graham Ingels
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Title:
In Memoriam
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Al Feldstein ?
Letters:
typeset
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
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:
Al Feldstein
Pencils:
George Evans
Inks:
George Evans
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Title:
Gone To Seed
Pages:
1.000
Letters:
typeset
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
Inks:
Joe Orlando
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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
Inks:
Graham Ingels
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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.
Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
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