(February-March 1953)
EC,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
EC An Entertaining Comic
- Editing
- Al Feldstein (credited as Albert B. Feldstein) (editor); Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (managing editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); Jack the Ripper
- Reprints
-
in Tales from the Crypt (Superior, 1950 series) #34 ([circa March 1953]) -
in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #3 (1979) - in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #2 (October 1991)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)
-
in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #3 (julio 2003) - in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #3 (julio 2022)
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Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall!
The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Heh, heh! Back again, I see!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (host); un-named scientist (death); Nancy Stone (Arthur's wife, death); Arthur Stone (villain, death, re-incarnated into a creature, 2nd death)
- Synopsis
- A first person narrative where a man fashions a monster together out of artificial parts ala Frankenstein and transfers your brain into it. You stumble into a carnival's hall of mirrors and are killed by the sight of your own multiple ghastly images.
- Reprints
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #3 (1979)
-
in Les Meilleures Histoires de... (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1983 series) #[1] - Terreur (1983) -
in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #8/1989 (uke 49 1989) which is reprinted - in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #5 ([mars] 1998)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #2 (October 1991)
-
in Skræk (Semic Interpresse, 1994 series) #6 (1. december 1994) - in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #3 (julio 2003)
- in Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (October 2012)
- 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) #3 (julio 2022)
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- Keywords
- Maro's Wax Museum
Indexer Notes
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Story inspired by "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft.
Cover story.
Oil's Well That Ends Well!
The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed); Roy Krenkel ? (portions of pages 2 and 3)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Heh, heh! Now that the Crypt Keeper has finished dishing out his own oil...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed hotel clerk; Jess (hotel guest); Mr. Fagin; Mayor Jordon; Philip Garson (villain, con artist, death); Sam Simpson (villain, con artist, death)
- Synopsis
- Two swindlers run a racket where they visit a small town and convince them there is oil present and get them to issue stock in order to come up with the check to begin drilling. One of them fakes his death and is buried in order to hide the money and default. Unfortunately for him, the other is a smoker and when he digs up his casket, it turns out there really is oil in the cemetery dirt. This oil has collected in the casket, and when the startled smoker lifts the casket lid he drops the cigarette into it which causes an explosion.
- Reprints
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #3 (1979)
-
in De vloek van de volle maan (Loeb, 1981 series) (1981) - in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #8/1990 (uke 48 1990)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #2 (October 1991)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #3 (julio 2003)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #30 - A Slight Case of Murder and Other Stories (April 2021) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #3 (julio 2022)
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Indexer Notes
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Evans draws himself into the story on page 3, panel 7, and page 4, panel 1.
Evans verified that he did not do portions of the inks on pages 2 and 3. Although he cannot remember who did them, he suspects Roy Krenkel.
Visage of the Vault-Keeper on page 1 is a photostat of Johnny Craig's.
Love Story
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Jerry De Fuccio
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I met Negra in my last year at medical school.
- Synopsis
- A Hematologist is captivated by a pale beautiful woman from Europe that studies with him. He finds out she is a vampire and puts her out of her misery.
- Reprints
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #3 (1979)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #2 (October 1991)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #3 (julio 2022)
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Indexer Notes
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Attacks of Horror!
The Crypt-Keeper's Grim Fairy Tale! / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once upon a time... long, long ago...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Crypt-Keeper (host)
- Synopsis
- This grim fairy tale tells the story of king Moneymad's tax scheme. He taxes the people for everything he can think of, until they have no money left to pay their 'thumb' tax, and he begins having their thumbs cut off. The peasants revolt and cut out his stomach.
- Reprints
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #3 (1979)
- in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #1/1989 (uke 3 1989) which is reprinted
- in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Semic, 1996 series) #3 ([mars] 1997)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #2 (October 1991)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #3 (julio 2003)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #3 (julio 2022)
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Indexer Notes
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
There Was an Old Woman!
The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ray Bradbury (original); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)
- Inks
- Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hee, hee! Yep, kiddies, it's your hostess in The Haunt of Fear...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Old Witch (host); Emily (Tildy's housekeeper); Aunt Tildy (death); a group of morticians [Mr. Carrington (Mortuary President); others unnamed]
- Synopsis
- The employees of a mortuary are haunted by the spirit of an old woman who refuses to leave until they return her body to her.
- Reprints
- in The Autumn People (Ballantine Books, 1965 series) (October 1965)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #3 (1979)
- in Monsieur Sourire (Albin Michel, 1985 series) (1985) [N&B [B&W]]
- in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #2 (October 1991)
- in Skræk (Semic Interpresse, 1994 series) #3 (2. juni 1994)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)
- in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #3 (julio 2003)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #7 - Sucker Bait and Other Stories (February 2014) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (Dark Horse, 2019 series) (2019)
- in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #3 (julio 2022)
- in Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) (January 2023)
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Indexer Notes
Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
The splash panel displays the last part of Bradbury's name.
Based on the 1944 Ray Bradbury story.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall!
The Crypt of Terror -
2.
Oil's Well That Ends Well!
The Vault of Horror! -
3.
Love Story
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4.
Attacks of Horror!
The Crypt-Keeper's Grim Fairy Tale! -
5.
There Was an Old Woman!
The Witch's Cauldron!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Chris Boyko
- Craig Delich
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Jason Sacks
- Jim Stangas
- Tom Vincent
- Mike White
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