(August-September 1950)

EC, 1950 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1950-04-18
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); Al Feldstein (credited as Albert B. Feldstein) (associate editor)

Issue Notes

On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1950, page 37, registration number B240925.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
Inks
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Jason Morgan; Marie Morgan (as a zombie)
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Cover Thumbnail for The Crypt of Terror (EC, 1950 series) #19
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Look for this Seal... (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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

Ghost Ship! (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
Pencils
Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
Inks
Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Wroten
First Line of Dialogue or Text
So... we meet again, dear render!
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Don; Carol; Captain Henry Dragoon (flashback); Charles Grogins (flashaback); John Bates (flashaback)
Synopsis
A man and his wife are flying in a small plane when a thick fog arises and they are forced to put down at sea. Using a lifeboat for a couple of days they come across a rotted ship. Reading the ship's log they learn the mutinous crew died one by one after being cursed by the captain they forced to walk the plank. The man sees a ship heading towards them and are afraid they are going to be rammed, but the ship passes right through where they are standing! They get in their lifeboat and are rescued but the captain does not believe their strange tale of the ghost ship.
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The Hungry Grave (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Gardner Fox
Pencils
Graham Ingels
Inks
Graham Ingels
Colors
? (see notes)
Letters
Jim Wroten
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Quick, Jim! Get that body out of there!
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Ed Greene; Ida Greene (villain, Ed's wife, death); Jim Kelleber (villain, Ida's lover, death)
Synopsis
A woman hates her husband so she gives him small doses of arsenic trying to work up her nerve to finish him off, but all she succeeds in doing is allowing him to develop a tolerance to the stuff. When he overhears her plot to leave him in a sack for her lover to bury in a dug-up grave, he poisons her instead and puts her in the sack so that the lover buries her not quite dead. Then, he kills the lover with an ax.
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Indexer Notes

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

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.

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

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

Script
?
Pencils
Al Feldstein
Inks
Al Feldstein
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Greetings, once again, my very good fiends!
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Indexer Notes

Letters from Stanley Prenta, Beulah Dainels, and The Vault-Keeper.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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

Cave Man (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
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
We find Homer Perry in his private workshop in the Jonsonian Institute,...
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Homer Perry (assistant curator, death); Mr. Yardley (institute director); Professor Greer (anthropologist); the caveman
Synopsis
Homer is notified that a famed anthropologist has made the astounding discovery of a perfect specimen of a Neanderthal Man, and his boss wants Homer to stop work on his exhibit and create a special exhibit for the caveman immediately. However, Homer feels he will lose all fame and honor for what he had accomplished on his own exhibit, so he decides to get rid of the caveman by placing him in the sunlight in order for the specimen to begin to decompose. However, the caveman comes to life and goes crazy, killing Homer, then takes his place back in his own exhibit.
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Keywords
Jonsonian Institute

Indexer Notes

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

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Hungry Grave,” above).

Incident on the Cliff (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hammer crept along the incline on his hands and knees.
Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

NOT reprinted in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #3 (March 1993).

Zombie! (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])
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
When Daniel King arrived in Haiti,...
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Mr. King (plantation guest, photographer); Mr. Richards (plantation owner); Jason Morgan (former owner of Richard's plantation, death); Marie Morgan (Jason's wife, death, resurrected as a zombie, death)
Synopsis
A former plantation owner with a young wife hates the kindness she shows to the natives. He bursts into one of their voodoo dance rituals and shoots her dead for partaking. The natives turn her into a zombie and send her after him for revenge. Firing useless bullets, he flees into the jungle where he falls into a bog of quicksand and she joins him in eternity.
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Indexer Notes

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

Craig repeats several elements from his earlier tale, "Zombie Terror" from Moon Girl #5 (Fall 1948), in this story.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Hungry Grave,” above).

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Look for this Seal...
  3. 2. Ghost Ship!
    The Crypt of Terror
  4. 3. The Hungry Grave
  5. 4. ["Greetings, once again, my very good fiends!"]
    The Crypt-Keeper's Corner
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
  7. 6. Cave Man
  8. 7. Incident on the Cliff
  9. 8. Zombie!
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