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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #23
Publication Date: April 1951
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Issues: #23 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/03/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William M. Gaines (editor); Al Feldstein (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Notation
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Pencilling in masthead.
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Tales From the Crypt
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #23 published May 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published March 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Reflection of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
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; 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!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #U2106 published December 1964
as Reflection of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1991 published January 1991
as Løpet er kjørt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published March 1994
as Reflection of Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFoul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! #[nn] published January 2005
as Reflection of Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #33 published January 2006
as En skjebne verre enn døden [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Last Respects!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Anna Cooper (Anthony's girl, death); Mr. Cooper (Anna's Uncle), death); Anthony Colton (villain, Cooper's chauffeur, death)
Synopsis: Tony loves and secretly marries Anna, a wealthy, but underage girl. When her Uncle discovers this, he threatens to annul the marriage, which drives Anna to her sickbed. When she passes, Anthony murders her Uncle, then brings a carnival prize to her mausoleum. He accidently gets locked in and survives nearly a month by catching leaking rain water and devouring the corpse, eventually succumbing to formaldehyde poisoning.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published July 1992
In Content Item: FlagThe Vault of Horror #U2107 published August 1965
as Last Respects [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1994 published January 1994
as Den siste ære! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published March 1994
as Last Respects! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Precautions

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Constable Vajta (death); The Elders; a vampire (villain)
Synopsis: Constable Vajta had finally tracked down the murderous vampire and taken him to the Elders for dispensation. Wanting to get the situation over as quickly as possible, they ordered the vampire burned at the stake and body thrown into a grave. Vajta protested, saying this wasn't the way to kill a vampire, but they wouldn't listen. The deed done, Vajta threw the charred body into a grave and stood watch......the next morning, the Elders found the constable's body drained of blood and wondered: had Vajta been right?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: NOT reprinted in Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (March 1994), but WAS reprinted in Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #7 (July 1992).
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Seance!

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
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Alan Bitsby (owner of Bitsby and Company); Martha Bitsby (Alan's wife, death); Walton Farnum (Bitsby and Company accountant); Agnes Farnum (Walton's wife); Mrs. Dober; Paul Dober (death); Doctor Podos (medium); Harvey Hatch
Synopsis: Alan Bitsby sets out to prove that a medium is faking by asking him to raise the spirit of his 'departed' wife. Unbeknownst to the medium at the time the seance begins, Bitsby's wife is very much alive. The medium goes into a trance, and, with a great deal of effort, does succeed in summoning up the spirit of Bitsby's wife, at which point Bitsby triumphantly accuses the bewildered medium of being a fake and leaves. Upon returning home, however, Mrs. Bitsby is found dead as a doornail.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published July 1992
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1990 published January 1990
as En selsom seanse! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published March 1994
as Seance! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Voodoo Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
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); Bill (tourist, death); Jay (villain, tourist, zombie, death)
Synopsis: Jay and Bill witness a forbidden voodoo ceremony. Jay is captured and later meets up with Bill and they leave Haiti. Bill finds a package at home and is startled to see it contains a voodoo doll with a large pin, which comes to life and attacks Bill. Throwing it into the fire, he rushes into the hall, gets Jay, and returns to see the doll is nowhere in sight. Jay reveals that he is a zombie sent with the doll to kill Bill. Enraged, Bill rips apart the doll and notes it has a human heart: Jay's! And both Jay and Bill fall dead.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published July 1992
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1993 published January 1993
as Voodoo død! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #7 published March 1994
as Voodoo Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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