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COVER DETAILS
Title:
A Bloody Undertaking
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Pencils:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Colors:
Marie Severin
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
The cover title was taken from the first story in this issue, from which the cover was based.
Script, colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
STORY DETAILS
Title:
Johnny Craig
Characters:
Johnny Craig
Synopsis:
Biography of artist Johnny Craig with a B/W photo of him.
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (host); Gilbert Podges (undertaker, death); Charlie Drayne (Gilbert's assistant, death); Wilma Podges (villain, Podge's wife, a vampire)
Synopsis:
Mortician Gilbert Podges gives a young girl a ride from the train station and ends up marrying her. His mortuary business, however, takes precedence over a honeymoon. After he hires a new assistant, Gilbert notes the blood drained from the bodies is disappearing, and stories of a vampire on the loose worry him. The townspeople, however, believe Gilbert's new assistant to be the vampire, and so they track him down and kill him. Gilbert relaxes.....but not for long.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Pencils:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:
Johnny Craig (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Title:
...With All the Trappings!
Characters:
The Old Witch (host); Pierre; Maria
Synopsis:
People were starting to leave the town cemetery after the burial of Emile, and Pierre swore to Maria that he'd never be buried like that....his body being left to the worms and crawling things. With winter coming on and in need of money, Pierre set out more trap lines than ever before, a concern to Maria. Before he left to cover them, Pierre looked over the materials he'd just received on metal vaults. Three days later, after returning home, he found Maria dead on the floor, and went into town to check out those metal vaults, and discovered they cost $300......a year's worth of trapping for Pierre! Sitting at home dejected, with Maria's body near him, Pierre decides to put her in the ice house for preservation until he can raise the needed funds. Trapping that winter proved financially sound and Pierre went to town and ordered the vault and a funeral service for Maria, then happily headed home. As he entered the ice house to get her body, he froze in horror as he saw a lynx, which had stripped Maria's body of its flesh!
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Al Feldstein (co-plot, script); Bill Gaines (co-plot)
Notes:
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Title:
Prescription
Characters:
Manley
Synopsis:
At the local drug store, Manley had just discovered that he had mislaid the ten Chloralex tablets ordered by the Animal Research Center.....pills that could instantly kill a human being.....were missing! Then he thought of the messenger he had just dispatched to Mrs. Lester's with a prescription.....could he have sent the Chloralex tablets to her in error? He had to get that box back, so he called Mrs. Lester on the phone....but three times it came back busy. He darted out the door, heading for her house, and when he rang her bell, she answered. He asked her if her prescription had arrived, and she said it had. Manley told her that box had been delivered in error and it must have it back immediately for another patient who's need was more urgent, and he assured her that her prescription would arrive within 30 minutes. Taking the box from her, he left quite relieved, to his drug store. All this had been too much and he reached into his vest and took out an aspirin from the case and popped it into his mouth....and felt it dissolve on his tongue. The next instant, he leaped to his feet with a severe burning sensation in his throat and he then a strangling sensation....and sprawled across the prescription table....dead. Just within reach of his hand was the box he had taken the pill from.....clearly marked "Hold for Animal Research Center!"
Pages:
2.000
Script:
William M. Gaines
Pencils:
? (spot illo)
Inks:
? (spot illo)
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
This text story was printed on the inner halves of the two pages, with EC house ads to either side. One promoted Shock SuspenStoriess #2 [with a Wally Wood cover], while the other promoted the Complete Old & New Testament books from the Picture Stories From the Bible series, Picture Stories From World History #2 and Picture Stories From Science #2 [all with covers].
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (cameo)
Synopsis:
VK first relates reader voting on last issue's stories, then mentions that Wally Wood will be the next featured EC Artist of the Issue in Two-Fisted Tales #27. Then letters from 10 soldiers stationed in Korea, Ted Dahlman, Jack Hargett, William Richard, Jack Maxfield and Virginia Noulin were printed. Finally, there was the usual plug for the photos of the three GhouLunatics for 25 cents.
Pages:
1.000
Pencils:
Johnny Craig (spot illo)
Inks:
Johnny Craig (spot illo)
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Impressed by a Nightmare!
Characters:
The Vault-Keeper (host); Fred & Emma Dworkin
Synopsis:
As Fred poured himself a cup of coffee, Emma told him that she'd had a nightmare about cutting her finger, and she couldn't stand the sight of the blood. He told her to forget it, but, sure enough, after he left, she cut her finger....just like in the dream. That night, she dreamed her little girl tripped and fell....and she did the next day. The next night she dreamed their son had an auto accident and that happened as well. Fred said that it was all coincidence....but when she dreamed next that her husband fell into the rollers of the giant printing presses at work, she sprang out of bed to stop him from going to work, only to discover he was already gone. In a panic, she ran down to his work site and rushed into where the presses were, and saw Fred atop the gigantic machine. When he heard her, he turned, slipped and fell into the printing press rollers!
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Al Feldstein (co-plot, script); Bill Gaines (co-plot)
Pencils:
Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks:
Joe Orlando (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Title:
The Death Wagon!
Characters:
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Police Inspector; Herman Kitch (villain, death); Amos Sink (villain, death)
Synopsis:
Sink and Kitch, unscrupulous used car dealers, made a business of buying clunkers for a cut-rate price, then making them seem presentable and sold them to unsuspecting buyers. When all the cars were involved in accidents, resulting in deaths, a Police inspector threatened to get a warrant to examine all of the cars on their lot. To avert this, the pair spent nights fixing up every car on the lot....unaware that the dead, rotting corpses of their "victims" were moving in on them. The next morning the inspector returned with his warrant to find a single car....adorned with the duo's body parts.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Letters:
Jim Wroten
Notes:
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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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
0
0
1
2
2
3
6
5
2
10
12
7
3
7
6
5
6
4
2
2
2
3
1
0
0
91
Qualified
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
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
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
Total
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
2
3
6
6
3
11
13
7
4
7
7
5
6
5
2
2
2
3
1
0
0
98
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