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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #34
Publication Date: February 1953
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Issues: #34 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
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); Jack the Ripper
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #34 published March 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #18 published December 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); un-named scientist (death); Nancy Stone (Arthur's wife, death); Arthur Stone (villain, death, re-incarnated into a creature, 2nd death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Back again, I see!
Synopsis: A first person narrative where a man fashions a monster together out of artificial parts ala Frankenstein and transfers your brain into it. You stumble into a carnival's hall of mirrors and are killed by the sight of your own multiple ghastly images.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1989 published January 1989
as Lille speil på veggen der [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #18 published December 1996
as Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Story inspired by "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft.
Cover story.
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Oil's Well That Ends Well!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed hotel clerk; Jess (hotel guest); Mr. Fagin; Mayor Jordon; Philip Garson (villain, con artist, death); Sam Simpson (villain, con artist, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Now that the Crypt Keeper has finished dishing out his own oil...
Synopsis: Two swindlers run a racket where they visit a small town and convince them there is oil present and get them to issue stock in order to come up with the check to begin drilling. One of them fakes his death and is buried in order to hide the money and default. Unfortunately for him, the other is a smoker and when he digs up his casket, it turns out there really is oil in the cemetery dirt. This oil has collected in the casket, and when the startled smoker lifts the casket lid he drops the cigarette into it which causes an explosion.
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In Content Item: FlagDe vloek van de volle maan #[nn] published January 1981
as Eind goed, olie goed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1990 published January 1990
as Bondefangerne [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Oil's Well That Ends Well! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #18 published December 1996
as Oil's Well That Ends Well! [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.

Evans draws himself into the story on page 3, panel 7, and page 4, panel 1.

Evans verified that he did not do portions of the inks on pages 2 and 3. Although he cannot remember who did them, he suspects Roy Krenkel.

Visage of the Vault-Keeper on page 1 is a photostat of Johnny Craig's.
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Love Story

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: I met Negra in my last year at medical school.
Synopsis: A Hematologist is captivated by a pale beautiful woman from Europe that studies with him. He finds out she is a vampire and puts her out of her misery.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Love Story [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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Attacks of Horror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt-Keeper's Grim Fairy Tale!
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Once upon a time... long, long ago...
Synopsis: This grim fairy tale tells the story of king Moneymad's tax scheme. He taxes the people for everything he can think of, until they have no money left to pay their 'thumb' tax, and he begins having their thumbs cut off. The peasants revolt and cut out his stomach.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1989 published January 1989
as Med skatt skal landet bygges [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Attacks of Horror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #18 published December 1996
as Attacks of Horror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
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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There Was an Old Woman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Emily (Tildy's housekeeper); Aunt Tildy (death); a group of morticians [Mr. Carrington (Mortuary President); others unnamed]
First Line: Hee, hee! Yep, kiddies, it's your hostess in The Haunt of Fear...
Synopsis: The employees of a mortuary are haunted by the spirit of an old woman who refuses to leave until they return her body to her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Autumn People #[nn] published October 1965
as There Was An Old Woman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as There Was an Old Woman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #18 published December 1996
as There Was an Old Woman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

The splash panel displays the last part of Bradbury's name.

Based on the Ray Bradbury story first published in the July 1944 issue of Weird Tales.

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