Tales from the Crypt #28

(February-March 1952)

Joe Orlando (Table of Contents: 1)

The EC "Artist of the Issue" / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
• in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2

Indexer Notes

EC Artist of the Month

Bargain In Death! (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

Inks

Jack Davis

Colors

?

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Heh, heh! So you're back for more, eh?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mel (medical college student); Sid (medical college student); George's unnamed landlady; Clem (medical college handyman); Zeke (gravedigger); Hank (gravedigger); Fogerty (Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Company representative); Alex Lawrence (villain, death); George Arkman (villain, death)

Synopsis

Two medical students need to procure a corpse in order to get an anatomy credit to graduate and pay an imbecile five bucks to dig and grave rob a newly dug grave. The target of their efforts is a man convinced by his 'friend' to take a drug that will emulate the death-like appearance in order to collect a forty thousand dollar insurance policy, not knowing that his friend is going to betray him and abscond with the $40,000!

Reprints

• in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #4
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #8/1989 (uke 49 1989)
which is reprinted
• in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #5 ([mars] 1998)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (June 1995)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #4 - Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity and Other Stories (March 2013) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
• in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2, #2

Keywords

Loganwood Medical College

Indexer Notes

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

Ants in Her Trance! (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

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Heh, heh? Ever been hynotized?

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

• in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #4
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #4/1994 (uke 33 1994)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (June 1995)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
• in Nemi (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2003 series) #22 ([februar] 2005) [2. translation]
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #19 - The Thing from the Grave and Other Stories (October 2017) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
• in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2

Indexer Notes

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

Break Out! (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

A convict tries to escape from an island prison but is attacked by "a swarming mass of huge land crabs".

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
• in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2

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

The Crypt-Keeper's Corner / letters page / 0.6 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein

Inks

Al Feldstein

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Donald Pachuta, Rick Klewer.

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

statement of ownership / 0.4 page (report information)

Script

Frank Lee

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)

A-Corny Story (Table of Contents: 7)

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

?

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You'll shudder over thhis one even though you might call it...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis

An elderly man is fired due to age discrimination and returns to Haiti to work revenge upon his boss. He asks a voodoo practitioner for a tree that will grow in reverse while sympathetically affecting the same change in his former boss, and it works. The trees ends up as an acorn and the boss de-ages all the way past infancy to nothingness.

Reprints

• in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #4
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #1/1990 (uke 4 1990)
which is reprinted
• in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #6 ([september] 1998)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (June 1995)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #20 - Daddy Lost His Head and Other Stories (November 2017) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
• in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2

Indexer Notes

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

The Ventriloquist's Dummy! (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

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

Pencils

Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)

Inks

Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)

Colors

?

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hee, hee! Yep, it's me... the Old Witch...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis

A man with a homicidal head growing out of his wrist pursues the career path of a ventriloquist.

Reprints

• in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #4
• in EC Horror Library of the 1950's (Nostalgia Press, 1970 series) (1970)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #2/1991 (uke 9 1991)
• in Tales from the Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #12 (June 1995)
• in Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #2 (junio 2003)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #13 - Grave Business and Other Stories (June 2015) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Tales from the Crypt (Diábolo Ediciones, 2021 series) #2 (diciembre 2021)
• in The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #2

Indexer Notes

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