The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #19 - The Thing from the Grave and Other Stories

(October 2017)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 3 pages (report information)

The Thing from the Grave & Other Stories (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Introductory pages with vignette images from stories in this book.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

table of contents / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Table of contents with images by Orlando on the edges of the pages.

Joe Orlando (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #12 (March-April 1952) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

EC Artist of the Month.

Orlando in Bloom (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Von Bernewitz (credited)

Pencils

Joe Orlando (credited)

Inks

Joe Orlando (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Analysis of the stories in this book, with art by Orlando.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Indexer Notes

Panel enlargement from interior story.

Forbidden Fruit (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

Two passengers from a downed plane wash up on an island where the only food appears to be fruit that grows on a tree enclosed behind a stockade. The previous occupant tells them from behind the wall that eating the fruit will make their skin rot off, but they don't believe he is sane and so come back to the enclosure later that night and partake of the fruit, but then they get a look at him...

Reprints

• from Haunt of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #9 (September-October 1951) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

Madame Bluebeard (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as J. Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as J. Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A woman raises her daughter to hate men and so for six years she murders a husband a year, making each appear an accidental death, as trophies for her departed mother. The seventh victim is not quite dead when he drags himself from the airplane wreck she caused, and thus she has to finish the job off herself with a large rock. When he is interred with the other six dead men that are ignorant they've been murdered "the wind...comes up...seems to sound like a whispher...telling the others..." When she is alone in the cemetery the corpses rise and drag her down into the earth with them.

Reprints

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #27 (December 1951 - January 1952) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

Ants in Her Trance! (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A hypnotist places his wife in a trance and commands her to stop her heart. He brings her out of it with the phrase 'snap out of it'. When he falls for another woman, they decide to murder the wife by using the words 'wake up' instead, which won't bring her out of the trance. After she has been dead and buried for a year he brings his lover to the gravesite for appearances sake. She becomes hysterically overcome with guilt and he uses the phrase 'snap out of it'. They head back toward the cemetery entrance, but the grave erupts open and the corpse of his former wife lurches towards them. She hypnotizes them both and inflicts the same heart failure on them.

Reprints

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #28 (February-March 1952) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

A Rottin' Trick! (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A man uses a girl then dumps her and makes the mistake of seeking the help of a boat pilot to leave the country who used to love her before she killed herself. The boat pilot drops him off at an island that serves as a leper colony.

Reprints

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #29 (April-May 1952) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

Impressed by a Nightmare! (Table of Contents: 11)

The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host); Fred & Emma Dworkin

Synopsis

As Fred poured himself a cup of coffee, Emma told him that she'd had a nightmare about cutting her finger, and she couldn't stand the sight of the blood. He told her to forget it, but, sure enough, after he left, she cut her finger....just like in the dream. That night, she dreamed her little girl tripped and fell....and she did the next day. The next night she dreamed their son had an auto accident and that happened as well. Fred said that it was all coincidence....but when she dreamed next that her husband fell into the rollers of the giant printing presses at work, she sprang out of bed to stop him from going to work, only to discover he was already gone. In a panic, she ran down to his work site and rushed into where the presses were, and saw Fred atop the gigantic machine. When he heard her, he turned, slipped and fell into the printing press rollers!

Reprints

• from Vault of Horror (EC, 1950 series) #24 (April-May 1952) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Till Death Do We Part! (Table of Contents: 12)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis

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

Reprints

• from Haunt of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #12 (March-April 1952) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

A Hollywood Ending! (Table of Contents: 13)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A movie producer, who flies out to an Eskimo settlement, is surprised to find a beautiful American girl living among them and quickly falls for her. He secretly sneaks her back to the States without her step-father's knowledge to marry her and put her in films. When her step-father cathes up to them, he reveals to the producer a rather horrifying aspect of the girl.

Reprints

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #30 (June-July 1952) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Swipe of Cornell Woolrich's "Jane Brown's Body"
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Who's Next? (Table of Contents: 14)

The Haunt of Fear / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Old Witch (host)

Reprints

• from Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #16 (April-May 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Midnight Mess! (Table of Contents: 15)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

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

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #35 (April-May 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

The Lake (Table of Contents: 16)

The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (plot); Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host); a little boy; Margaret (the grown-up little boy's wife); lifeguard; Tally (death, in flashback)

Synopsis

Years below, a little boy and his young girl friend, Tally played at the beach building sand castles together. One day, Tally swam out into the water and drowned, leaving the sand castle un-done, and no closure for the boy. Years later, the little boy, now grown, got married and returned to the beach with his wife, and met with the old lifeguard, who showed him Tally's body in a sack. Once more the young man returned to the beach, built an entire sand castle and walked back to his wife, Margaret, leaving the past behind.

Reprints

• from Vault of Horror (EC, 1950 series) #31 (June-July 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Story was adapted from Ray Bradbury's "The October Country," which appeared in May, 1944's "Weird Tales" and the anthology "Dark Carnival."

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Pleasant Screams! (Table of Contents: 17)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host); Felix Purdy (high school teacher); student of Mr. Purdy; a werewolf (villain); a vampire (villain); rotting corpse (villain); little monsters (villains)

Synopsis

A high school teacher narrates his experiences as the main character in the dream of a sadistic student. When he realizes the child is waking up, he is terrified at the true end of his existence.

Reprints

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #37 (August-September 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

The Craving Grave! (Table of Contents: 18)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Vault-Keeper (host); Cynthia (death)

Synopsis

This story is told by a grave. It speaks of spending lonely years of being laughed at by the other graves, because they have children (corpses) while the narrator remains barren. Finally a casket is brought to the craving grave, but the body of Cynthia does not rest in peace. Her no-good nephew, who once robbed her, returns with his wife and begs forgiveness. Cynthia takes the two of them in, only to be murdered for her money.

Reprints

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #39 (December 1953-January 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

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

The Monkey (Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Sue Minner (drug user); Mr. Clements (Eddie's boss); Eddie's unnamed father (death); Eddie's unnamed mother; unnamed narcotics officer; Sid Scanlon (villain, drug dealer); Eddie (villain, drug addict)

Synopsis

A drug addict murders his father in order to get his fix.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #12 (December 1953 - January 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Drug story.

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Sight Unseen (Table of Contents: 20)

Crime SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Reprints

• from Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #22 (April-May 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

The Thing From the Grave! (Table of Contents: 21)

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

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host); James Barry (death); Laura Mason (Jame's wife); William (Bill) Ferth (villain, death)

Synopsis

Bill and Jim are rivals for Laura's affection. After Jim proposes and Laura accepts, she worries about Bill's temper. Bill kills Jim and buries his body in the forest and disposes of his car in a sinkhole, then tries to convince Laura that Jim has deserted her, but she refuses to believe it. Bill gets frustrated, admits to murdering Jim and tells Laura that he'll have to kill her too, taking her to a cabin and setting it afire. She screams, awakens Bill's corpse, who then rises from his grave, saves Laura, and takes care of Bill.....once and for all!

Reprints

• from Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror (EC, 1954 series) #2 (Spring 1954) [Reprinted in two dimensions and black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Adapted from text story in The Haunt Of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #15 (May/June 1950).

Food for Thought (Table of Contents: 22)

Crime SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #24 (August-September 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

The Hazing (Table of Contents: 23)

Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler ?

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Letters

Jim Wroten

Synopsis

A college student wants to join a frat so he makes up a story about a professor they don't like being a communist in order to get him fired.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

The Operation (Table of Contents: 24)

Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Synopsis

A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth two hundred fifty thousand he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #17 (October-November 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Dead Center (Table of Contents: 25)

Crime SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Oleck ?

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

drama

Reprints

• from Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #26 (December 1954-January 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

An Harrow Escape! (Table of Contents: 26)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host); Captain Grady; Lt. Morton; Kip Fowler

Synopsis

Captain Grady's ship approached the seemingly derelict "Sea Witch", boarded her and found the entire group on board slaughtered....that is, except for one Kip Fowler, who was barely able to tell them the story of how the ship had been caught in a bad storm and forced ashore. They had spotted a castle where they were met by a strange man, who invited them in out of the rain. That night, Kip roamed the castle and found coffins! He hurried back to the room of a female passenger and saw a vampire bending over her, and he drove a wooden stake thru its heart as it jumped at him. The passengers then headed back to their boat and shoved off, but Kip discovered the woman had already been bitten and was a vampire herself. At that point, Fowler passed away, and the Captain & Lt. Morton noticed the female lying near, and the Captain raised a wooden stake and plunged it into her heart. Both went up on deck....then Morton remembered that she had bitten Fowler, and both whirled to see the vampire....Fowler, leaping at them!

Reprints

• from Vault of Horror (EC, 1950 series) #40 (December 1954-January 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Success Story (Table of Contents: 27)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A woman and her parents move in with a man they nag constantly to get ahead in the world because he can't afford their demands for gadgets. Eventually the nagging pushes him over the edge and returns from the kitchen brandishing the meat cleaver. He giggles to the arresting officers "I not only got ahead, I got three heads." as they look over the three severed heads on silver platters in the dining room.

Reprints

• from Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #46 (February-March 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Paid In Full (Table of Contents: 28)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein ?

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as J. Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as J. Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

drama

Reprints

• from Impact (EC, 1955 series) #2 (May-June 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

The Travelers (Table of Contents: 29)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

drama

Reprints

• from Impact (EC, 1955 series) #5 (November-December 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

This Is Your Strife (Table of Contents: 30)

Sloppy Sentimentalism Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #1 (February-March 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Parody of TV show "This is Your Life."

Breakfast with the Fershlugginers (Table of Contents: 31)

Early Morning Radio Programs Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #2 (April-May 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Parody of popular "breakfast with..." radio morning shows.

Mother Goon's Nertzery Rhymes (Table of Contents: 32)

Ludicrous Literature Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [ R in O ])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #3 (June-July 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Mother Goose parodies.

Just Plain Bull (Table of Contents: 33)

Smash That Kitchen Radio Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [cursive])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [cursive])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

Parody of radio soap operas.

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #4 (August-September 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Spots Before Your Eyes! (Table of Contents: 34)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [cursive])

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando [cursive])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #5 (October-November 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

TV commercials parody. 2 page sequences titled "The Late Evening Sportcaster", "The Weatherman", and "The Home Gardener".

[Comic Strip Advertising Dept.] (Table of Contents: 35)

Panic / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #6 (December 1954-January 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Parodies of various comic-strip-style advertisements. Idea from Nick Meglin.

Travel Posters (Table of Contents: 36)

The Urge to See the World Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Mendelsohn

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #7 (February-March 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Parody of typical travel posters.

Carmen (Table of Contents: 37)

High Class Culture Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Mendelsohn

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Opera parody.

Zoo Charade (Table of Contents: 38)

Wild Life on T.V. Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Mendelsohn

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

• from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #9 (June-July 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Parody of TV show "Zoo Parade".

Out of the Grave (Table of Contents: 39)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Marie; The Thing [Jim] (the walking dead); un-named man (villain, death)

Synopsis

Having already killed her friend Jim and buried him, the un-named man tied Marie to the chair and set the cabin on fire, all to get her inheritance. But Jim was not content to allow the girl he once cared for and promised to protect die in the fire, so he rose from the grave to exact his revenge on her tormentor!

Reprints

• from Haunt of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #15 [1] (May-June 1950)

Indexer Notes

Reprinted in black and white.

[Self Portrait] (Table of Contents: 40)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Joe Orlando (credited)

Inks

Joe Orlando (credited)

Indexer Notes

Devilish self-portrait of Orlando as requested by Marie Severin.

Joe Orlando (Table of Contents: 41)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Steve Ringgenberg (credited as S. C. Ringgenberg)

Pencils

Joe Orlando (credited)

Inks

Joe Orlando (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Biography of Orlando accompanied by art by him.

Good lord! (Table of Contents: 42)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Indexer Notes

Panel enlargement from interior story.

Behind the Panels (Table of Contents: 43)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Janice Lee (credited); Arthur Lortie (credited); Bill Mason (credited); Tom Spurgeon (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Biographies of Ray Douglas Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein; Gardner Fox; William Maxwell Gaines; Nick Meglin; Jack Mendelsohn; Jack Oleck; Carl Wessler.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 44)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Indexer Notes

Panel enlargement from interior story.

Crime, Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics (Table of Contents: 45)

text article / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Ted White (credited)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #1 - Corpse on the Imjin and Other Stories (August 2012)

The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Table of Contents: 46)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 47)

blank page(s) / 3 pages (report information)

Classic Crime, Shock, Horror - and Outrageous Satire! (Table of Contents: 48)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover contains blurb about the book; UPC; logos; price; and an image of a hand rising from a grave.