(February-March 1950)

EC, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1949-10-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
EC An Entertaining Comic
Editing
Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (editor)

Issue Notes

On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1949, page 181, registration number B213569.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Crypt of Terror / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
Inks
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime; horror-suspense
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The Corpse in the Crematorium (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Johnny Craig; Al Feldstein ?
Pencils
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
Inks
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
Colors
? (see notes)
Letters
Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A living man, being carried into the great coke furnace of a modern crematorium...
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Al Gregory (an artist); Jane Walton (Al's fiance)
Synopsis
A man subject to cataleptic fits is brought to a crematorium while his wife-to-be searches frantically for him. She fails to find him before he is scheduled for cremation, but what saves him is that the attendant notices beads of sweat forming on his brow before the gaping maw of the blast furnace.
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Indexer Notes

Story foreshadows a 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV episode titled "Breakdown", wherein Joseph Cotten plays a paralyzed man lying on a morgue slab mistaken for a dead body (episode directed by Hitchcock).

Thommy Burns, in Fantagraphics' October 2019 volume, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", reports that the script is by Craig, not Feldstein. Placed a ? by Feldstein's name and Craig's name added.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Trapped in the Tomb (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Al Feldstein
Pencils
George Roussos
Inks
George Roussos
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Alone in an airless tomb that had lain buried for forty centuries...
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
An explorer plots to kill another explorer by sealing him in an Egyptian tomb. His love interest foils the plot by fighting and scratching the bad guy for a note written in the missing man's handwriting. A third explorer realizes the fink is up to no good when he notices the facial scratches but the would-be murderer denies having seen the girl. The third explorer follows the evildoer and overpowers him when he attempts to toss the subdued girl over a cliff and then they rescue the man trapped in the tomb, who it turns out, is still just barely alive.
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A Bottle of Murder! (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The story can be told, now.
Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Graveyard Feet (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Al Feldstein
Pencils
John Alton
Inks
John Alton
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The feet came from the grave...
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A mad doctor cuts off the body parts of his victims in order to experiment with transplants. One of the recipients turns out to be a reporter who finds that the feet have a will of their own and know how to kickbox. Eventually, they lead him back to the doctor and once the cell doors of his intended victims are opened, they beat the doctor to death. The reporter's feet go back to being well-behaved now that their previous owner has been avenged.
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Voodoo Vendetta (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
They tell strange tales in the hills of Haiti...
Genre
horror-suspense
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The Spectre in the Castle (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script
Al Feldstein
Pencils
Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
Inks
Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Welcome, dear reader!
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Crypt Keeper (host)
Synopsis
A man inherits an estate on the condition that he survive a few nights in it since it is supposedly haunted by a ghost that has been known to kill a relative at times. He accepts the risk, and after he arrives odd things begin to happen, but it turns out not to have anything to do with the supernatural, but a greedy probate lawyer attempting to do away with him to gain control of the estate.
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Crypt of Terror
  2. 1. The Corpse in the Crematorium
  3. 2. Trapped in the Tomb
  4. 3. A Bottle of Murder!
  5. 4. The Graveyard Feet
  6. 5. Voodoo Vendetta
  7. 6. The Spectre in the Castle
    The Crypt of Terror!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David B
  • Bill Borre
  • Craig Delich
  • Bill Devine
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Jason Sacks
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Stangas