The Crypt of Terror #18

(June-July 1950)

The Maestro's Hand (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Feldstein

Pencils:

Al Feldstein

Inks:

Al Feldstein

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Crypt Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

Dr. Hellman arrives at a cabin in the woods to forget the suicide of his ex-fiancee after he unnecessarily removed the injured piano hand of her lover and he killed himself. When he opens the package he finds upon his doorstep, the detached hand lunges for his throat. When police arrive later, they find the doctor dead from self-strangulation.

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• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

The Living Corpse (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Feldstein

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Synopsis:

A magician strikes his assistant while wearing a snake ring and then attempts to locate where her body was taken by playing dead himself as to remove the snake imprint evidence. He assaults the morgue attendant but is locked into the freezer while the attendant suffers a heart attack and is thus doomed to freeze to death.

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• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

Portrait of Life...and Death (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

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• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

Madness At Manderville (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ivan Klapper ?

Pencils:

Harvey Kurtzman

Inks:

Harvey Kurtzman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

When Tom Mander and his wife lose their son Billy, Tom worries the strain may be driving her insane when she tells him that she sees and hears things he cannot. When they find a butcher knife soaked with blood in the kitchen and the dog in the cellar with its throat slashed Tom takes his wife in to see a doctor who has Tom committed to an insane asylum when his discussion reveals to the doctor that Tom cannot perceive sights and sounds that actually do occur.

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• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

Indexer Notes

Script credit based on interview with William Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman in Squa Tront #9, 1983.

Mute Witness To Murder! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Johnny Craig

Pencils:

Johnny Craig

Inks:

Johnny Craig

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A woman sees her neighbor doctor murder his wife and is struck dumb from the shock. Her husband summons the very same doctor and he realizes what she must have witnessed and has her committed to an asylum. He realizes that her voice may return at any time so he schedules her for a brain operation in which he plans to 'accidentally' kill her. Her voice does return and when his heart gives out without his medicine during their struggle, she chooses to let him die rather than summon aid in time.

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• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.