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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #28
Publication Date: October 2002
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Issues: #28 of 30 Issues
Title: Terror Train and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 28
Pages: 302
ISBN: 9781683963295
UPC/EAN: 978168396329553500
Price: $35.00 USD
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Content Items: 49 (35 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gary Groth (publisher and executive editor); J. Michael Catron (senior editor)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Black and White with some Color
Dimensions: 7.25" x 10.25" (18.4 cm x 26 cm)
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Terror Train and Other Stories

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Terror Train and Other Stories

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Table of Contents

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The Golden Age of Al Feldstein

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The Treasure of Timberline Top

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The Case of the Savage Strongboy

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Double-crossed

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The Machine-Gun Mad Mobsters

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Dance-Hall Racket

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The Law's Revenge

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Victor Wolf & Sam Bart Kidnappers

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Money-Hungry

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Nell Baker

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Your Newsdealer -- He Is Your Friend

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The Craig Gang

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The Last Round

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The Case of the Floating Corpse!

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The Fatal Turn

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Our Families Clashed!

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Case Number 318: Murder--The Swindle by Flame

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Return from the Grave

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Buried Alive

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I Was A 'B' Girl!

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The Spectre in the Castle!

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
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The Mummy's Curse

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Death Must Come

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Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A transferred gland preserves youth.
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Terror Train

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Vault of Horror
Character(s): Gloria; Ralph
Synopsis: Gloria was in a cab, running away from her husband Ralph...heading toward the train station and the train that would take her away from this man whom she thought was trying to poison her. Seated on the train, she kept imagining him at every turn and remembering the $25,000 insurance policies Ralph had taken out on them both...then she remembered that poison bottle he had brought home. Asleep in her berth, Gloria suddenly awakens at what she thinks is a scream, and goes to wake the conductor...but he is dead in his berth. In fact, everyone is dead in their berths!
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The Thing in the Swamp!

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Feature(s): A Scientific SuspenStory
Character(s): Sam (death?); unnamed partner of Sam (death?); Robert Colby (Marie's fiancee); Professor Carl Ward (scientist, death); Marie Ward (Ward's daughter, death)
Synopsis: Two men are making their way through the Okefenokee Swamp when an old man warns them not to continue on. When questioned, the man recounts the story of three people, two of them scientists, who came to the swamp to conduct an experiment, which they felt failed. When the mixture they made was thrown into the swamp, a strange blob-like creature was born, which killed the scientist and his daughter. The old man warns them of extreme danger if they continue, and the fact that the old man was the fiancee of the scientist's daughter doesn't sway them one bit!
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The Maestro's Hand!

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Synopsis: Dr. Hellman arrives at a cabin in the woods to forget the suicide of his ex-fiancee after he unnecessarily removed the injured piano hand of her lover and he killed himself. When he opens the package he finds upon his doorstep, the detached hand lunges for his throat. When police arrive later, they find the doctor dead from self-strangulation.
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The Dead Will Return!

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
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Synopsis: Florence and Bert had just finshed dumping her husband's body in the ocean and made their way back to the lighthouse on the beach. She knew that her husband had a large sum of money somewhere around the house or on the property, and while she was searching outside for it, Bert heard a scream. Rushing to the beach, he saw that the body of Flo's husband has just washed ashore, so he took it and dumped it off the highest cliff in the area.....only to wash ashore again a few days later. Bert decided to take the body this time far up the coast, dump it and return.
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Ghost Ship!

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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 Strange Couple!

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper [cameo]
Synopsis: A man is driving on a stormy night along a road when he is stopped by a state trooper, who tells him that the bridge ahead is washed out and he needs to take a side road instead to his destination, He does, but the car's engine stalls....but then he sees lights coming from a house and goes to it to phone for help. A weird couple inhabit the place....the man tells him that his wife is a crazy ghoul and she tells him that her husband is a vampire! The husband sends his wife to her room and he explains that she killed their dog and partially ate the body...
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The Love Story To End All Love Stories!

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Horror Beneath the Streets!

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein; The Vault-Keeper; The Crypt-Keeper
Synopsis: The three GhouLunatics accost Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein as they are finishing up an issue of Modern Love and closing shop for the night. The Old Witch chases them into the sewer where the Crypt Keeper forces Bill Gaines to sign a contract, the Vault Keeper forces Al Feldstein to sign one and the Old Witch gets her comic book deal in exchange for agreeing to let Al and Bill out of the sewer.
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The Thing from the Sea

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Synopsis: During a sea voyage a passenger discovers that stateroom 13 has the reputation of being haunted. He discovers that it is indeed haunted by the corpse of someone the captain murdered and it drops into sea after taking revenge upon the captain.
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Hong Kong Intrigue!

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Character(s): Gregg King; Carol Stanton; Carol's father (death); Chinese killers (villains)
Synopsis: Gregg saves Carol from a Chinese thug, then she informs him that her father was kidnapped because he could prove that the northern rebels of East Asia were taking orders from a foreign power. The evidence, however, remains in a hidden place, known only to her father. So the pair begin the arduous task of tracking him down and then recovering the evidence.
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A Shocking Way To Die

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Synopsis: A scientist revives a man sent to the electric chair who then pursues revenge against the jury and judge that convicted him.
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Escape!

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron
Character(s): The Old Witch (cameo); Pete Luger
Synopsis: Convict Pete Lugar he devises a scheme to somehow switches places with a corpse being taken out of the prison, in order to make good an escape. Following the next execution at the prison, Lugar switches places with the corpse, expecting a confederate to free him from the executed man's grave. However, inmates come into the morgue, nail the coffin shut, and take it to the prison's new crematorium!
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The Thing from the Grave!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): 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!
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Disclose Notes: Adapted from text story in The Haunt Of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #15 (May/June 1950).

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Reflection of Death!

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Carl; Al (death)
Synopsis: Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash. Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. A similar reaction comes from a hobo and a woman, whose car he takes to his home, which has been foreclosed upon. Then he walks to his friend's house, but sees Carl without eyes and blind. Al walks to a mirror and sees his rotten and decomposed face, then is awakened...it has been a dream. Then car lights appear and there is a crash....for real!
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First Line: Wiggling her way thru the test tubes...
Synopsis: Self-portrait of Feldstein
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Al Feldstein

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First Line: We all took to each other
Synopsis: Article about Feldstein including art by him.
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Behind the Panels

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Writer(s): Bill Mason; Janice Lee; Arthur Lortie
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Synopsis: Profiles of John Alton; Gardner F. Fox; William Maxwell Gaines; Ivan Klapper.
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Crime. Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction, Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics

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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library

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Mobsters, Murders, Mayhem - and Mummies, Too!

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