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Issue: Vault of Horror #37
Publication Date: June 1954
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Issues: #37 of 29 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Johnny Craig; Bill Gaines (managing editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover title is taken from the 3rd story in the issue, after which the cover was based.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Elder (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Elder (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Panic
Synopsis: B/W EC house ad for Panic.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Surprise Party!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Craig
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (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); Drusilla (cameo); Jerry Adams
Synopsis: Jerry Adams arrived in a small town on a rainy night, checked into a motel and headed out to see a movie. He hits a detour and turns off on a dirt road [which isn't on any map] and gets lost, gets out and walks a it until he spots a house. As he approaches it, he sees that a party is in progress, and is invited to join in. He thoroughly enjoys himself, dancing the hours away w/his beautiful hostess. Then it dawns on him that the band plays only one tune the entire night, and his hostess tells him that it was the tune being played on the night of the fire. When he tells the crowd his name, they suddenly turn on him.....the flesh falling from their faces, as they explain that, back in 1884, his hostess was celebrating her engagement to Roger Wertham, but a rival suitor, named Adams, set fire to the house, killing everyone in it. Since then, on the same night, all the people "return" to re-enact that night until their deaths could be avenged. Now, that Jerry Adams has shown up, they now avenge themselves on him, his ancestor!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1991 published January 1991
as Selsomt selskap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Surprise Party! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Chop Talk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Emil Voight; Anna; Heinrich
Synopsis: Emil and Anna said their last goodbyes to each other in the park.....their affair was to be over. But Emil decided to end it permamently: he killed her, and her husband came along, witnessed the act, stuck Emil and carried his dead wife away. But he returned and grabbed Emil and turned him into the Police....a trial was held and Emil was sentenced to have his head chopped off. Little did he know his executioner was Heinrich, the husband of the dead woman, and he proceeded to tell Emil how a person dies at the block. Emil lost consciousness and dreamed of that gory moment....then suddenly awoke. For days he agonized, until the day he decided to accept his fate and went to the block cheerfully. When Heinrich saw this, he lost his temper....killed Voight, then swallowed poison to be with his Anna. Suddenly, a voice called out to Emil Voight in a strange afterlife.....the voice of Heinrich, who proceeded to kill Emil again and again and again.....for all eternity!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4 [1988] published January 1988
as Hals over hode [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Chop Talk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Sharp

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illo)
Inker(s): ? (spot illo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Milton Canasta; Aunt Bridger
Synopsis: As long as he could remember, Milton had hated his Aunt Bridger, who spent her days squandering the Canasta fortune, while Milton scrapped just to get by. To make matters worse, she was squandering it away on antique jewelry....jewelry she couldn't even see because she was blind! So he decided to credep into the house....right past her and grab handfuls to sell. Then, as he placed an odd snake ring on to his finger, Aunt Bridger walked into the room, catching him in the act, and he said he was on his way out. As per her usual custom, she required a firm handshake before his departure, and they shook hands.....but Milton felt the sensation of a pin prick. And as he walked out of the house and down the street, he noted the finger the ring was on was now a purplish-red....pain screamed through his body, which began to suffer from convulsions. As he lay dying, he now realized the ring was loaded w/poison.....and soon....very soon....his eyes saw nothing!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Sharp [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Do People Laugh At You for Reading Comics Books?

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mad comics
Synopsis: EC house ad for MAD Comics.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Vault-Keeper's Corner
Synopsis: VK presents a pieces of perverted poetry from John Wykoff and G.R.D., then some Pulsating Pograms from Larry Hauck and Also Betro, then some Morbid Movies from Bob Burg, then some Lurid Lyrics from Pete Oliphant, and finally new lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by E. Nelson Bridwell. Finally, VK prints letters from L.P. and Ritchie Brocket, then pushes the EC 3-D mags and subscriptions to the Vault of Horror.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
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Pages: 1
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Take Care

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Oleck ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Inker(s): Angelo Torres (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); Jefferson Bates (trustee of estate, death); Albrecht Dench (caretaker of estate, death); Avery Ballusk (former owner of estate, death); Rudolph Dregg (Ballusk's butler)
Synopsis: The former butler to Avery Ballusk waited on the owner hand and foot, but seemed only interested in inheriting his money after Ballusk's death, which soon came, at the end of a rope. The butler disappeared soon after, and a trial could provide no evidence that the "butler did it"! It is to this house that appointed trustee and his caretaker companion venture into the home for the first time to look it over.......but they never walk out......alive!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1994 published January 1994
as Vær på vakt! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Take Care [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Take Care [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Inker credit changed. Previously credited to Williamson as pencil/ink because he signed the story. However thanks to some sharp eyes at the GAC, Torres has signed a picture in the next to last panel.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Oh! Henry!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
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); Lieutenant Lionel "Hard Hart" Hart (detective, death); unnamed shopkeeper; Henry (old lady's husband, death); unnamed old lady (villain)
Synopsis: Lionel Hart, plainclothes detective, had made many arrests, not listening to phony stories from the guilty. One day he caught an old lady for shoplifting, and she pleaded for him to understand that the food she took was for her sick, paralyzed husband, Henry. But Hart wouldn't listen and he took her in, got a conviction and had her thrown into jail. A month later he decided to check the woman's story out, and went over to her home and found her husband dead in his wheelchair! Blaming himself, he had the woman released, and went to make amends. But was he in for a surprise!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1990 published January 1990
as Nødrett! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Oh! Henry! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

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