Tales from the Crypt #36

(June-July 1953)

George Evans (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Al Feldstein

Letters:

typeset

Reprints:

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

Indexer Notes

EC Artist of the Month

Fare Tonight, Followed By Increasing Clottyness... (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Crypt-Keeper (host); un-named newsstand operator; Dr. Eggbert Muller (mythologist, death); un-named taxi driver (villain, a vampire)

Synopsis:

A cab driver has a dream that he is pursued by a Dr. Mueller into a basement filled with vampire-occupied caskets. When he wakes, and Dr. Mueller actually shows up at his cab, he recognizes the dream as a subconscious warning the doctor may be dangerous to him so he takes the doctor to the basement he dreamed of and then drains his blood. Afterwards, the vampire cabbie returns to the earthen sod in his trunk to pass the coming day.

Reprints:

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #1/1991 (uke 2 1991)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #6 (May 1992)
• in Skræk (Semic Interpresse, 1994 series) #4 (4. august 1994)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #20 (June 1997)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #[4] - Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity And Other Stories (March 2013)

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.

Curiosity Killed... (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script:

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

Pencils:

George Evans

Inks:

George Evans

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

Jim Wroten

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A woman is convinced that her friend down the hall has been murdered by her husband and that he is disposing of her remains bit by bit via carrier pigeon to a local kennel. It turns out that her husband is in on the deal too, and he comes for her sooner than he anticipated since she has found out.

Reprints:

• in The Vault of Horror (Ballantine Books, 1965 series) #U2107 (August 1965)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #6 (May 1992)
• in Skræk (Semic Interpresse, 1994 series) #3 (2. juni 1994)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #6/1994 (uke 50 1994)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #20 (June 1997)

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.

Tight Squeeze (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

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Letters:

typeset

Reprints:

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #6 (May 1992)

How Green Was My Alley (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

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

Pencils:

Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks:

Jack Kamen (signed)

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

Jim Wroten

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A bigamist is decapitated by his two athletic wives when they find they've been deceived. The golfer putts with his eyes and the bowler uses his severed head.

Reprints:

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in De vloek van de volle maan (Loeb, 1981 series) (1981)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #8/1991 (uke 49 1991)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #6 (May 1992)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #20 (June 1997)

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 Handler (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script:

Ray Bradbury (original); Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils:

Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inks:

Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

Jim Wroten

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Old Witch (host); Mr. Rodgers (druggist); Mr. Stuyvesant (a contractor); Mr. Flinger (delicatessen man); various corpses [Mr. Smith; Mr. Andrews; Mrs. Walters; Miss Brown; Mrs. Shellmund; Mr. Wren (a racist); Edmund Worth; three unnamed gossips; unnamed lawyer; rest unnamed]; Merriwell Blythe (death); Mr. Benedict (villain, mortician, death)

Synopsis:

A mortician avenges himself against perceived slights upon the closed-casket victims of his parlor by violating their bodies until a corpse who isn't quite dead yet overhears his gruesome doings and begs the dead to rise from their graves and stop this horrid man. This they do, and bury parts of Mr. Benedict under a dozen gravestones.

Reprints:

• in The Autumn People (Ballantine Books, 1965 series) #U2141 (October 1965)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #6 (May 1992)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #5/1994 (uke 41 1994)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #20 (June 1997)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #[7] - Sucker Bait and Other Stories (February 2014)

Keywords:

Daily Star (newspaper); Daily Star newspaper

Indexer Notes

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

The splash panel displays the latter part of Bradbury's name.

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