(April-May 1951)
EC,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1951-01-03
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
EC An Entertaining Comic
- Editing
- Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (editor); Al Feldstein (credited as Albert B. Feldstein) (associate editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
[no title indexed]
Tales From the Crypt / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein (signed as
FELDSTEIN) - Inks
- Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)
- Reprints
-
in Tales from the Crypt (Superior, 1950 series) #23 ([circa May 1951]) -
in EC Horror Library of the 1950's (Nostalgia Press, 1970 series) (1970) -
in Der beste Horror aller Zeiten (BSV - Williams, 1973 series) (1973) -
in Horreur - une anthologie en bandes dessinées (Williams France, 1974 series) (2e trimestre 1974), (2e trimestre 1974) - in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
- in Les Meilleures Histoires de... (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1983 series) #[1] - Terreur (1983)
- in EC Classics (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #11 - Tales from the Crypt (1988)
-
in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#10 ([ottobre] 1991) - in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994)
-
in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003) - in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021), #2 (diciembre 2021)
- in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2
-
Reflection of Death!
The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein
- Inks
- Al Feldstein
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Welcome, dear fiends! Come in!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (host); Carl; Al (death)
- Synopsis
- Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash. Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. A similar reaction comes from a hobo and a woman, whose car he takes to his home, which has been foreclosed upon. Then he walks to his friend's house, but sees Carl without eyes and blind. Al walks to a mirror and sees his rotten and decomposed face, then is awakened...it has been a dream. Then car lights appear and there is a crash....for real!
- Reprints
- in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #3
- in Tales from the Crypt (Ballantine Books, 1964 series) (December 1964)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
- in EC Classics (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #11 - Tales from the Crypt (1988)
- in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#8 ([agosto 1991])
-
in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #6/1991 (uke 35 1991) - in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
- in Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! (HarperCollins, 2005 series) (2005)
- in Nemi (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2003 series) #33 ([januar] 2006) [2. translation]
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #28 - Terror Train and Other Stories (October 2020) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
- in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2
-
- Keywords
- Peoples Bank and Trust Company; Star Gazette
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Inspired by the story "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
_________
Reference:
Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
Last Respects!
The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Graham Ingels
- Inks
- Graham Ingels
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hee, hee! Yes! It's me again!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Old Witch (host); Anna Cooper (Anthony's girl, death); Mr. Cooper (Anna's Uncle), death); Anthony Colton (villain, Cooper's chauffeur, death)
- Synopsis
- Tony loves and secretly marries Anna, a wealthy, but underage girl. When her Uncle discovers this, he threatens to annul the marriage, which drives Anna to her sickbed. When she passes, Anthony murders her Uncle, then brings a carnival prize to her mausoleum. He accidently gets locked in and survives nearly a month by catching leaking rain water and devouring the corpse, eventually succumbing to formaldehyde poisoning.
- Reprints
- in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #3
- in The Vault of Horror (Ballantine Books, 1965 series) (August 1965)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
- in EC Classics (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #11 - Tales from the Crypt (1988)
- in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#7 (luglio 1991)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #7 (July 1992)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994)
- in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #5/1994 (uke 41 1994)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #23 - Doctor of Horror and Other Stories (December 2018) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
- in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2
-
Indexer Notes
Cover story. Although in the story the man is locked in a mausoleum with a female corpse.
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Reflection of Death!,” above).
Precautions
text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- After a month of incessant search through the mountains...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Constable Vajta (death); The Elders; a vampire (villain)
- Synopsis
- Constable Vajta had finally tracked down the murderous vampire and taken him to the Elders for dispensation. Wanting to get the situation over as quickly as possible, they ordered the vampire burned at the stake and body thrown into a grave. Vajta protested, saying this wasn't the way to kill a vampire, but they wouldn't listen. The deed done, Vajta threw the charred body into a grave and stood watch......the next morning, the Elders found the constable's body drained of blood and wondered: Had Vajta been right?
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
NOT reprinted in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994), but WAS reprinted in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #7 (July 1992).
Seance!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One is either a believer or an unbeliever!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (host); Alan Bitsby (owner of Bitsby and Company); Martha Bitsby (Alan's wife, death); Walton Farnum (Bitsby and Company accountant); Agnes Farnum (Walton's wife); Mrs. Dober; Paul Dober (death); Doctor Podos (medium); Harvey Hatch
- Synopsis
- Alan Bitsby sets out to prove that a medium is faking by asking him to raise the spirit of his 'departed' wife. Unbeknownst to the medium at the time the seance begins, Bitsby's wife is very much alive. The medium goes into a trance, and, with a great deal of effort, does succeed in summoning up the spirit of Bitsby's wife, at which point Bitsby triumphantly accuses the bewildered medium of being a fake and leaves. Upon returning home, however, Mrs. Bitsby is found dead as a doornail.
- Reprints
- in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #3
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
- in EC Classics (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #11 - Tales from the Crypt (1988)
- in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #1/1990 (uke 4 1990) which is reprinted
- in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #7 ([mars] 1999)
- in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#7 (luglio 1991)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #7 (July 1992)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #4 - Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity and Other Stories (March 2013) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
- in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2
-
- Keywords
- Bitsby & Company
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Reflection of Death!,” above).
Voodoo Death!
The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Johnny Craig (signed)
- Pencils
- Johnny Craig (signed)
- Inks
- Johnny Craig (signed)
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hee, hee! It's so nice to see your eager faces leering at me again, in expectation!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Vault-Keeper (host); Bill (tourist, death); Jay (villain, tourist, zombie, death)
- Synopsis
- Jay and Bill witness a forbidden voodoo ceremony. Jay is captured and later meets up with Bill and they leave Haiti. Bill finds a package at home and is startled to see it contains a voodoo doll with a large pin, which comes to life and attacks Bill. Throwing it into the fire, he rushes into the hall, gets Jay, and returns to see the doll is nowhere in sight. Jay reveals that he is a zombie sent with the doll to kill Bill. Enraged, Bill rips apart the doll and notes it has a human heart: Jay's! And both Jay and Bill fall dead.
- Reprints
- in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #3
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
- in EC Classics (Russ Cochran, 1985 series) #11 - Tales from the Crypt (1988)
- in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#8 ([agosto 1991])
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #7 (July 1992)
- in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #2/1993 (uke 15 1993)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #17 - Voodoo Vengeance and Other Stories (December 2016) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
- in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2, #2
-
- Keywords
- Haiti; voodoo
Indexer Notes
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Reflection of Death!,” above).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Tales From the Crypt -
1.
Reflection of Death!
The Crypt of Terror -
2.
Last Respects!
The Witch's Cauldron! -
3.
Precautions
-
4.
Seance!
-
5.
Voodoo Death!
The Vault of Horror!
This issue was modified by, among others
- David B
- Bill Borre
- Chris Boyko
- Craig Delich
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- R. S. Martin
- Mike Nielsen
- Jason Sacks
- Jim Stangas
- Tom Vincent
- Mike White
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