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 Les Meilleures Histoires de... (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1983 series) #[1] - Terreur (1983)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #1/1991 (uke 2 1991)
• in I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #v1#2 (febbraio 1991)
which is reprinted
• 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, 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); Henrietta Clayton (Milton's wife, death); Emily Durand (Wallace's wife, death); George (elevator operator); Jed (desk clerk and switchboard operation (mention only); Wallace Durand (villain); Milton Clayton (villain, Emily's husband)

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 Les Meilleures Histoires de... (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1983 series) #[1] - Terreur (1983)
• 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 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)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #30 - A Slight Case of Murder and Other Stories (2021)

Keywords

Royal Arms Apartments

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 visage of the Vault-Keeper on Page 1 is a photostat by Johnny Craig.

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 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 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 Monsieur Sourire (Albin Michel, 1985 series) (1985) [N&B [B&W]]
• 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.