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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #31
Publication Date: August 1952
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Issues: #31 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
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
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (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
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images3
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #31 published September 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #6 published January 1977
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #15 published March 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Survival... or Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
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); Gregory Macy (death); Charles Warner (death); Captain Heston (commander of the Port-au-Prince, death)
Synopsis: Two men aboard a cargo ship are bored until they get the idea to build a rat trap and ask the Captain to have a barrel built with a platform in the middle of it and a run off down the center. They fill it with water and attach a teeter to the rim with some food attached to the end of it so that when a rat attempts to get it, it falls into the water and swims to the platform. When another rat approaches and falls into the drink, they bet on which rat will survive the bloody struggle for the platform. Later, when their ship sinks, two find out that humans are not much different from rats!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1990 published January 1990
as Som man reder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1991
as Survival... or Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #15 published March 1996
as Survival... or Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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The Thing In the 'Glades!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Inker(s): Al Williamson (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); Ezzard (father of deformed boy); Amy (mother of deformed boy, mention only, death); Sheriff Black; Deputy Clem; Jess Donnel (mention only); Pete (death); Lou (death); Hank Cridden (death); Amy and Ezzard's deformed boy (villain, death)
Synopsis: A man's wife dies in childbirth giving him a deformed retarded son with stunted legs, and he becomes a hermit in his cabin in the Glades. When four people are ripped apart, the sheriff confronts him, but backs off when the father brandishes a gun. Later, severely wounded, the man admits to the sheriff he was wrong and that his son is a killer.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1989 published January 1989
as Sumpvesenet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1991
as The Thing in the 'Glades! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #15 published March 1996
as The Thing in the 'Glades! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as The Thing in the 'Glades [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Soft!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Malcolm (farmer, Harry's boss, death); Harry (villain, death)
Synopsis: Harry has stolen money from the desk drawer of his boss, and he knows that his boss knows it. But Harry has a surprise waiting for his boss in the hay loft......but the real surprise strikes Harry!
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1991
as Soft! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Crypt-Keeper's Corner
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Jo Ann Baerd, David Briskin.
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Kamen's Kalamity!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed); Graham Ingels (draws himself); Johnny Craig (draws himself); Jack Davis (draws himself)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed); Graham Ingels (draws himself); Johnny Craig (draws himself); Jack Davis (draws himself)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Den of Iniquity!
Character(s): Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein; Jack Davis; Jack Kamen; Graham Ingels; Johnny Craig; Kamen's wife; Kamen's two un-named kids
Synopsis: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein tell this auto-biographical tale of hiring Jack Kamen to draw horror stories, first telling Kamen that his work is too sweet. They advise him to get into the swing of things like Ingels, Craig and Davis, who are all drawn by their respective artists shown torturing effigies of Bill Gaines. Jack resolves to become more horrible and doses off at the drawing board and dreams of committing murder under the full moon and returning menacingly to his wife and two small children. His wife wakes him up with a scream when she spies a mouse.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Kamen's Kalamity [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Kamens kalamiteter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1991
as Kamen's Kalamity! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #15 published March 1996
as Kamen's Kalamity! [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 Kamen's Kalamity! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Jack Kamen, William M. Gaines, Albert B. Feldstein, Graham Ingels, Johnny Craig, and Jack Davis all appear in story.

Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Buried Treasure!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al 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); Hans (young child, death); Emile; Johann; Heinrich (villain, Duke of Schlusstein, death)
Synopsis: In 1667 Germany a fat Duke lords it over his starving peasants, but when he imposes a tax on the peasants for "dirtying his carriage" with the blood of a young child he rode down in the street, Johann conceives the plot of stealing some of the Duke's jewels in order to pay the tax. When a friend, Emile, offers to go in his stead, because he has no family, the friend is caught, and the Duke orders the man's hands severed. Johann plans a sweet revenge on the Duke.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1990 published January 1990
as Dyr kost [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1991
as Buried Treasure! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #15 published March 1996
as Buried Treasure! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

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