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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #35
Publication Date: April 1953
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Issues: #35 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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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)
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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 Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #35 published May 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #3 published January 1973
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published September 1990
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1991 published January 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #19 published March 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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By the Fright of the Silvery Moon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Alec Gedra (farmer, death); Peter Gedra (Alec's son); Sheriff Hudson; Herb (worker in Sheriff's office); Miss Purdley (librarian); Edward Gedra (villain, Alec's son, a werewolf, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Welcome back, fiends!
Synopsis: After two men are found torn apart on the night of a full moon, the sheriff of a small American farm community seizes a man who has arrived from Hungary with his two sons and has him shot, believing him to be a werewolf. The sons know better and believe the Sheriff is the creature, so they make plans to trap and expose him for what he is. However it turns out that the werewolf was actually one of the sons.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6 [1988] published January 1988
as Månelyst! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published September 1990
as By the Fright of the Silvery Moon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #19 published March 1997
as By the Fright of the Silvery Moon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Cover story.
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Midnight Mess!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
First Line: Heh, heh! Looks like supernatural is the order of the day, eh, fiends?
Synopsis: A man visits his sister in a small town where people get off the street and close up shop before sundown due to a recent spate of seventeen vampire killings, but scoffs at the idea as the work of a homicidal maniac as vampires don't exist. He is hungry since the restaurant he was in earlier closed down before he could order something to eat and so he goes for a walk after dinner. He comes upon the same restaurant that he was in earlier and it is open now. He enters the place to get something to eat, but ends up on the menu himself, for it serves as an after-hours eatery to the local vampires.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Midnight Mess [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNacht der vampiers #[nn] published January 1973
as Nacht van de vampiers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Midnat-messen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2 [1988] published January 1988
as Nattmat! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published September 1990
as Midnight Mess! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #19 published March 1997
as Midnight Mess! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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The Rack

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The gaping mouth of the castle stuck out its drawbridge like an impudent tongue.
Synopsis: In medieval Italy ruthless Count Mordo tortures the brother of his enemy, Umberto the Lion, to death on the Rack. Later Umberto gets revenge by chaining Mordo to his drawbridge so when the drawbridge is lifted, he'll be torn to bits.
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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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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Paul Naylor, Jerry Smoller, Ralph Schurr, Stuart Glass, Nidred the Were-cat, Dick Mandel, Fred Barth, Howell Robertson, Bob Oravec.
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Busted Marriage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Here's a yarn that figures to end up pretty horrible...
Synopsis: A man has voodoo dolls made as wedding cake figures in order to get a wealthy woman to marry him. He meets a younger woman, and so to remarry, places his wife's doll under glass so that she suffocates from lack of air. He keeps both dolls until the second wedding as he plans to use them on the cake, but the wife figurine is rotting since it now resembles the woman lying in the grave. The man throws it away, and settles into bed with his new bride, but it gets out of the trash and hauls itself up to the shelf where his doll is kept to push it off, breaking it into a thousand piece, while in the bedroom the new bride screams in terror.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published September 1990
as Busted Marriage! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1991 published January 1991
as Ødelagt ekteskap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #19 published March 1997
as Busted Marriage! [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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This Wraps It Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Dr. Arnold Munson (archaeologist, death); Professor Thomas Steele (villain, archaeologist, death); Dr. Jerome Grabel (villain, archaeologist, death); mummy of Pharaoh Ikah-Mu-Kahma (villain)
First Line: Hee, hee! So it's supernatural you want, eh?
Synopsis: Three archeologists, one with a bad heart (Munson), uncover the tomb of the 5th Pharaoh of Egypt with a large treasure. The two hatch a plot involving the Pharaoh's mummy in order to get Munson's heart to give out, because they know that he will insist on turning over the treasure to the museum. Munson does indeed drop dead from fright from the Pharaoh's mummy, but the schemer pulls out a pistol and shoots the mummy as he wishes to keep all the treasure for himself, but he can't understand why the mummy doesn't drop. It's because the Pharaoh has come back to life to kill the interlopers.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published September 1990
as This Wraps It Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1993 published January 1993
as Godt innpakket! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #19 published March 1997
as This Wraps It Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Revised script credit by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

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