Tales from the Crypt #35

(April-May 1953)

By the Fright of the Silvery Moon! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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! Welcome back, fiends!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host); Alec Gedra (farmer, death); Peter Gedra (Alec's son); Sheriff Hudson; Herb (worker in Sheriff's office); Miss Purdley (librarian); Edward Gedra (villain, Alec's son, a werewolf, death)

Synopsis

After two men are found torn apart on the night of a full moon, the sheriff of a small American farm community seizes a man who has arrived from Hungary with his two sons and has him shot, believing him to be a werewolf. The sons know better and believe the Sheriff is the creature, so they make plans to trap and expose him for what he is.

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #6 [1988] (uke 35 1988)
which is reprinted
• in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Semic, 1996 series) #2 ([november] 1996)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gladstone, 1990 series) #2 (September 1990)
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#1 (gennaio 1991)
which is reprinted
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#10 ([ottobre] 1991)
• in Skræk (Semic Interpresse, 1994 series) #1 (3. februar 1994)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (March 1997)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #4 (agosto 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.]

Indexer Notes

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Midnight Mess! (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Heh, heh! Looks like supernatural is the order of the day, eh, fiends?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A man visits his sister in a small town where people get off the street and close up shop before sundown due to a recent spate of seventeen vampire killings, but scoffs at the idea as the work of a homicidal maniac as vampires don't exist. He is hungry since the restaurant he was in earlier closed down before he could order something to eat and so he goes for a walk after dinner. He comes upon the same restaurant that he was in earlier and it is open now. He enters the place to get something to eat, but ends up on the menu himself, for it serves as an after-hours eatery to the local vampires.

Reprints

• 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 Nacht der vampiers (Classics/Williams, 1973 series) (1973)
• in Den store skrækbog (Williams, 1974 series) ([1974])
• in Horreur - une anthologie en bandes dessinées (Williams France, 1974 series) (2e trimestre 1974)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Les Meilleures Histoires de... (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1983 series) #[1] - Terreur (1983)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #2 [1988] (uke 11 1988)
which is reprinted
• in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Semic, 1996 series) #1 ([april] 1996)
• in Iskalde Grøss - Klassikerserien (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2006 series) #[nn] ([mai] 2006)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gladstone, 1990 series) #2 (September 1990)
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#1 (gennaio 1991)
which is reprinted
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#10 ([ottobre] 1991)
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#1 (gennaio 1991)
which is reprinted
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#10 ([ottobre] 1991)
• in Skræk (Semic Interpresse, 1994 series) #1 (3. februar 1994)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (March 1997)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #4 (agosto 2003)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #19 - The Thing from the Grave and Other Stories (October 2017) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (Dark Horse, 2019 series) (2019)

Indexer Notes

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

The Rack (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jerry De Fuccio

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The gaping mouth of the castle stuck out its drawbridge like an impudent tongue.

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)

Indexer Notes

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Crypt-Keeper's Corner / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Paul Naylor, Jerry Smoller, Ralph Schurr, Stuart Glass, Nidred the Were-cat, Dick Mandel, Fred Barth, Howell Robertson, Bob Oravec.

Busted Marriage! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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

Here's a yarn that figures to end up pretty horrible...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A man has voodoo dolls made as wedding cake figures in order to get a wealthy woman to marry him. He meets a younger woman, and so to remarry, places his wife's doll under glass so that she suffocates from lack of air. He keeps both dolls until the second wedding as he plans to use them on the cake, but the wife figurine is rotting since it now resembles the woman lying in the grave. The man throws it away, and settles into bed with his new bride, but it gets out of the trash and hauls itself up to the shelf where his doll is kept to push it off, breaking it into a thousand piece, while in the bedroom the new bride screams in terror.

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gladstone, 1990 series) #2 (September 1990)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #2/1991 (uke 9 1991)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (March 1997)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #4 (agosto 2003)

Indexer Notes

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

This Wraps It Up! (Table of Contents: 6)

The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

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! So it's supernatural you want, eh?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Old Witch (host); Dr. Arnold Munson (archaeologist, death); Professor Thomas Steele (villain, archaeologist, death); Dr. Jerome Grabel (villain, archaeologist, death); mummy of Pharaoh Ikah-Mu-Kahma (villain)

Synopsis

Three archeologists, one with a bad heart (Munson), uncover the tomb of the 5th Pharaoh of Egypt with a large treasure. Two of them hatch a plot involving the Pharaoh's mummy in order to get the other's heart to give out, because they know that he will insist on turning over the treasure to the museum. The third man does indeed drop dead from fright from the Pharaoh's mummy, but the schemer pulls out a pistol and empties it into the mummy as he wishes to keep all the treasure for himself, but he can't understand why the mummy doesn't drop.

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gladstone, 1990 series) #2 (September 1990)
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#1 (gennaio 1991)
which is reprinted
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#10 ([ottobre] 1991)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #5/1993 (uke 43 1993)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #19 (March 1997)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #4 (agosto 2003)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #7 - Sucker Bait and Other Stories (February 2014) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Revised script credit by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.