Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror #2 Gaines File Pedigree (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $6,000.00

Sold: Feb 23, 2019

Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror #2 Values

Publisher: EC, 1954

About Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror #2

Stories from Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror redrawn to the 3-D format by Jack Davis, Will Elder, Johnny Craig, and Joe Orlando. The only issue of the title. Skull cover by Al Feldstein. Overstreet lists the issue as "rare in high grade".

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper

Pencils: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inks: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Notes: Added by Craig Delich 2013-4-17.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Directions for Assembling Your Two Versatile E.C. 3-D Viewers

Pages: 1.000

Title: The Trophy!

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Clyde Franklin (big game hunter, death, lives on as a head kept alive); Jeeves (Franklin's butler); un-named newspaper reporter; a ghoul (villain)

Synopsis: A noted big game hunter, who merely hunts for the sport, has the tables turned on him when a weird ghoul causes the hunter's car to suffer double blow-outs. When he regains consciousness, Clyde Franklin witnesses the handiwork of the ghoul and discovers what his fate will be!

Pages: 8.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Notes: Writer, page count and synopsis added by Craig Delich 2013-4-17. The original version of this story appeared in Tales From the Crypt #25 (August-September, 1951). This version, re-written by Feldstein, was re-drawn by Davis on multiple layers to achieve the 3-D effect for this issue. Fantagraphics restored Davis' artwork from the printed 3-D comic and "translated" it into 2-D, and also meticulously re-created the lettering, all for Volume 4 of the EC Artists' Library "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" published in March of 2013.

Title: The Strange Couple!

Characters: The Crypt Keeper (host); male traveler; Hepsibah (old woman); Fedor (Hepsibah's husband);

Synopsis: Stopped by the Police because the bridge was washed out on the main road, a man insists on taking a side road, but gets stuck in the mud. Spotting an isolated farmhouse, the man approaches, but is warned by an old woman inside that it was dangerous to stay there, and that her husband was a vampire. However, when the man tells him that his wife was a ghoul, he decides it's time for bed, but is warned to keep the room's closet locked. Soon he learns to regret his decision to remain.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Bill Elder (signed)

Inks: Bill Elder (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Story added by Craig Delich. Story may be out of proper sequence in the book.

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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	6	3	3	7	5	11	1	3	3	4	1	3	2	1	5	3	4	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	76
Qualified	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	5	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
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
Restored	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Total	7	3	4	8	5	12	3	3	9	9	2	6	3	1	5	3	5	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	99

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