Haunt of Fear #12

(March-April 1952)

The E.C. Artist of the Issue - Al Feldstein (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein ? (credited to Gaines in text)

Letters:

Typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Photo and biography.

Poetic Justice! (Table of Contents)

The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Graham Ingels

Inks:

Graham Ingels

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

A wealthy man and his son want the property of the well-liked elderly town garbageman and so they instigate a smear campaign to drive him out. First they get a license ordinance passed, and since he can't afford to pay it, the stray dogs and cats he's picked up are carted off to the pound. Then they get the neighborhood's children to stop visiting the old man. St. Valentine's day arrives and the old man is at first delighted to find his mailbox stuffed with cards thinking that the children have not forgotten him after all. Then, sobbing, he reads the poisoned missives one after the other that the wealthy man and his son have distributed amongst the townsfolk. No one sees him for a week so they check his house and find that he has hanged himself. On the following St. Valentine's day his corpse rises from the grave and tears the heart from the son's chest and leaves it as a valentine for the father.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Tales from the Crypt (Ballantine Books, 1964 series) #U2106 (December 1964)
• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (August 1995)

Indexer Notes

Adapted in the 1972 "Tales From the Crypt" film.

...On a Dead Man's Chest! (Table of Contents)

The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein ?

Pencils:

Johnny Craig

Inks:

Johnny Craig

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A man's younger brother begins an affair with his wife. After the three of them go out for a night on the town, the elder brother gets a tattoo on his chest of himself, his brother, and his wife arm-in-arm. The younger brother and the married woman hatch a plot to murder the husband where it will look like an accidental slip and fall in the bathroom. The younger brother pins his brother's arms and the wife clouts him in the head with a club. After he's dead, she glances at his chest and screams in horror. She pulls a gun and shoots dead the younger brother. When the police respond to the shot, they find her madly scrubbing her dead husband's chest, unsuccessfully attempting to remove the tattoo depicting the man with his arms pinned by his brother while his wife raises the club over his head.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (August 1995)

Brat (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

Typeset

[Letters page] (Table of Contents)

The Old Witch's Niche / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

Typeset

Till Death Do We Part! (Table of Contents)

Haunt of Fear / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Joe Orlando

Inks:

Joe Orlando

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

"The Sixth Sense" with a burglar instead of a psychologist.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (August 1995)

What's Cookin'? (Table of Contents)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

Two restaurant owners take on a third partner with ideas to make their roadside diner a success. He convinces them to specialize in chicken and adds broiling and deep fried to their eatery renamed the 'Chicken Coop'. The owners get greedy and decide to murder the newcomer in order not to have to split the profits with him. They tie him up and set his house on fire, he escapes, but is severely burned and makes his way back to his former business partners where he broils one and deep fries the other.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Haunt of Fear (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (August 1995)