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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #37
Publication Date: August 1953
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Issues: #37 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Tales From the Crypt
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1989 published January 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #21 published September 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Dead Right!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Carl (heart specialist, death); Ben Norton (funeral parlor undertaker); Dr. Joseph Fairbanks (villain, surgeon)
Synopsis: A doctor rigs up an elaborate hoax to convince his heart specialist friend that his theory of awareness immediately after death could be true by pretending to poison him but really only administering an anesthetic. When the heart specialist fails to come out from it, they realize he truly is dead, and since the story is told in first person, it confirms the doctor's theory of awareness beyond death since the end of the story reveals that the heart specialist died of a heart attack upon ingesting the supposed poisoned brandy and subsequently relates everything he perceives.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #U2106 published December 1964
as Dead Right [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1989 published January 1989
as Dødssikker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #21 published September 1997
as Dead Right! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Pleasant Screams!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1990 published January 1990
as Døden skal du lide! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #21 published September 1997
as Pleasant Screams! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
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Strop! You're Killing Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Bill Elder (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Elder (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mayor Witter; Dan Harper; Clem Dunlop (old Fire Chief, mention only); Frank Miller (villain, Fire Chief, death)
Synopsis: When Clem retires as Fire Chief, that leaves old Dan Harper on the job, until the Mayor appoints a younger man as Chief and since then, Dan and Chief Miller never see eye-to-eye about anything. One night, a fire breaks out at Dan's home, and the new Chief purposely delays his response to that call, hoping that Dan will die in it, which he does. Soon after, Chief Miller gets a ghostly call that his own house is on fire, and he rushes to the descent pole, which somehow has been replaced with a steel strip, sharpened to a keen razor-edge!
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In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Strop! You're Killing Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDe vloek van de volle maan #[nn] published January 1981
as Ik help je niet uit de brand! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7 [1988] published January 1988
as Det gamle brannvesenet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #21 published September 1997
as Strop! You're Killing Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Rover Boys!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); State Medical Board [Dr. Hale; Dr. Simpson; other three unnamed] (all die); Captain John Smythe; unnamed theatrical agent; unnamed milkman; Dr. Sheldon Remsen [aka Sheldon] (villain, death)
Synopsis: A doctor gets his revenge on the five members of the medical board who revoked his license to practice medicine by transferring their brains into the bodies of dogs, and using their reasoning abilities to make money as a novelty act. However, they get their revenge upon him by transferring his brain into the body of a horse and chasing him around the town streets.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1992 published January 1992
as Man skal ikke skue hunden på hårene [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #21 published September 1997
as The Rover Boys! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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