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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #36
Publication Date: June 1953
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Issues: #36 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: 8 (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)
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1994 published January 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #20 published June 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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George Evans

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Latest permanent addition to the E.C. family...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: EC Artist of the Month
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Fare Tonight, Followed By Increasing Clottyness...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); un-named newsstand operator; Dr. Eggbert Muller (mythologist, death); un-named taxi driver (villain, a vampire)
First Line: Heh, heh! Welcome, boils and ghouls...
Synopsis: A cab driver has a dream that he is pursued by a Dr. Mueller into a basement filled with vampire-occupied caskets. When he wakes, and Dr. Mueller actually shows up at his cab, he recognizes the dream as a subconscious warning the doctor may be dangerous to him so he takes the doctor to the basement he dreamed of and then drains his blood. Afterwards, the vampire cabbie returns to the earthen sod in his trunk to pass the coming day.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1991 published January 1991
as Nattskiftet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottyness... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #20 published June 1997
as Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottyness... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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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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Curiosity Killed...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Henrietta Clayton (Milton's wife, death); Emily Durand (Wallace's wife, death); George (elevator operator); Jed (desk clerk and switchboard operation (mention only); Wallace Durand (villain); Milton Clayton (villain, Emily's husband)
First Line: Heh, heh! Venture into the vault, vultures.
Synopsis: A woman is convinced that her friend down the hall has been murdered by her husband and that he is disposing of her remains bit by bit via carrier pigeon to a local kennel. It turns out that her husband is in on the deal too, and he comes for her sooner than he anticipated since she has found out.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Vault of Horror #[nn] published August 1965
as Curiosity Killed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as Curiosity Killed... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1994 published January 1994
as Dødsnysgjerrig! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #20 published June 1997
as Curiosity Killed... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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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.

The visage of the Vault-Keeper on Page 1 is a photostat by Johnny Craig.
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Tight Squeeze

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Not ten seconds after Kendall had seized the payroll bag...
Synopsis: A thief robs a factory and tries to escape from armed guards by hiding in a huge metal contraption. It turns out be a giant vise that crushes him.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as Tight Squeeze! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Silmy Syd, Edwin Zureich, Ralph Chapman, Dick Duggan, Maura (Mo) Miller, Dave Borden and Dick Merrit, Warren A. Freiberg, Ed Redling.
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How Green Was My Alley

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Here's a terror-tale of sporting life!
Synopsis: A bigamist is decapitated by his two athletic wives when they find they've been deceived. The golfer putts with his eyes and the bowler uses his severed head.
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In Content Item: FlagDe vloek van de volle maan #[nn] published January 1981
as Zo groen als de grasmat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1991 published January 1991
as Høyt spill! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as How Green Was My Alley [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #20 published June 1997
as How Green Was My Alley [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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 Handler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Mr. Rodgers (druggist); Mr. Stuyvesant (a contractor); Mr. Flinger (delicatessen man); various corpses [Mr. Smith; Mr. Andrews; Mrs. Walters; Miss Brown; Mrs. Shellmund; Mr. Wren (a racist); Edmund Worth; three unnamed gossips; unnamed lawyer; rest unnamed]; Merriwell Blythe (death); Mr. Benedict (villain, mortician, death)
First Line: Hee, hee! Yep, it's your dietician of disgusting drama, the Old Witch...
Synopsis: A mortician avenges himself against perceived slights upon the closed-casket victims of his parlor by violating their bodies until a corpse who isn't quite dead yet overhears his gruesome doings and begs the dead to rise from their graves and stop this horrid man. This they do, and bury parts of Mr. Benedict under a dozen gravestones.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Autumn People #[nn] published October 1965
as The Handler [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as The Handler [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1994 published January 1994
as Graveren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #20 published June 1997
as The Handler [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 latter part of Bradbury's name.

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Based on the Ray Bradbury short story that was first published in the January 1947 issue of Weird Tales.

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