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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #33
Publication Date: December 1952
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Issues: #33 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)
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); Myrna; Enoch
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #33 published January 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as Lower Berth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1992 published January 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #17 published September 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #2 published February 2003
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Lower Berth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Ernest Feeley (carnival owner); Myrna [aka Myranah] (Crypt-Keeper's mother, death); Zachary Cling (Myrna's owner); un-named Egyptian Pharaoh; un-named wife of Pharaoh; Enoch (Crypt-Keeper's father, death); Dr. Jebson Sickles (Enoch's owner); un-named Justice of the Peace
First Line: Heh heh! Got a collector's item for you fiends!
Synopsis: The Crypt Keeper relates his origin story of the meeting between his parents, a 4000 year old female Egyptian mummy and a two-headed corpse.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1990 published January 1990
as En sjelden mann! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as Lower Berth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #17 published September 1996
as Lower Berth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #2 published February 2003
as En sjelden mann! [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Cover story.
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This Trick'll Kill You!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed Indian girl (death); Herbert Markini (villain, magician, death); Inez Markini (villain, Herbert's wife, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Now it's time for a jaunt into the vault of horror, creeps!
Synopsis: A magician and his wife are visiting India looking for new acts to perform when he spies a girl with a trick rope that rises into the air when she plays a pipe and can be climbed upon. He offers to buy the rope from her but she refuses. His wife invites her back to the hotel room where the two plot to kill her and steal the rope. They kill her, but the rope suddenly has a mind of its own, much to the couple's horror.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1990 published January 1990
as Det indiske rep-trikset [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as This Trick'll Kill You! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #17 published September 1996
as This Trick'll Kill You! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

This story was adapted quite faithfully for the 1973 Amicus Productions "Vault of Horror" feature film.
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Castaway

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A murderer is exiled by his crew on an uninhabited island. To survive, he goes hunting and kills a large pregnant sea turtle for food. He is later killed by the turtle's mate.
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Pages: 1
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The Funeral

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt-Keeper's Grim Fairy Tale!
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Heh, heh! Why not tell a Grimm fairy tale?
Synopsis: In this grim fairy tale, a young prince grows fond of his nanny until one day she appears dead. The king attempts to console his heart-broken son by offering him candy, cake and a pony at the funeral for his nanny. The boy peeks in on her as she is lying in state and sees her move. It turns out she suffers from cataleptic fits and reassures the prince that she will never leave him. The boy thinks of all the nice things that he won't be getting due to the cancellation of the funeral and so brings a candlestick down upon her head.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1989 published January 1989
as Begravelsen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as The Funeral [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #17 published September 1996
as The Funeral [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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None But the Lonely Heart!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Matilda Filby (in flashback, death); Ephie (in flashback, death); Luella (in flashback, death); Veronica (in flashback, death); apartment manager (in flashback); Mr. Bibbs; Janet (a corpse); King (Howard's dog); Howard [aka Mr. Prince; aka Mr. Royal; aka Mr. Throne] (villain)
First Line: Well... hee, hee... It's me... your hostess in the Haunt of Fear, the Old Witch...
Synopsis: A man who marries homely wealthy women and murders them for their money receives a lonely-hearts letter from a woman who tells him that she lives in a large stone house and enclosures a photograph of a lovely woman whom she admits the picture displays two years ago, not having a more recent snapshot. Since she is so beautiful, he decides that it's time to wind up his racket and settle down. She accepts his proposal and he dashes out to meet her.....with stunning results.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as None But the Lonely Heart! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1991 published January 1991
as Hjerteknuseren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #17 published September 1996
as None But the Lonely Heart! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Al Feldstein.

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

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