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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)

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Haunt of Fear #21 published October 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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EC Portfolio #2 published January 1972
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Iskalde Grøss #3/1993 published January 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Haunt of Fear #21 published November 1997
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Pages: 1

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Melvin? You say you can't find Mad anywhere?

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Pages: 1

An Off-Color Heir

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Laura [Harber] Rais; Gilbert Rais (Laura's husband, in flashback); unnamed priest; Baron Gilles de Rais [Bluebeard] (image only); Gilbert Rais [aka the new Bluebeard] (villain, Laura's husband, also in flashback)

First Line: Hee, hee! So you got your paws on a grimy dime...

Synopsis: Laura dreamed of being a famous painter, and years back her husband-to-be came by her studio to have his portrait painted. They fell in love, married, and moved to his planation home in Louisiana. In that home hung a portrait of her husband's French Baron relation, which haunted her, as did a room in the home that wouldn't open. Now, years later, she discovered a bottle of black ink in the bathroom for her husband's new beard, and when she was able to get the mystery door opened she found seven dead women lying there, and her husband, now with a blue beard and a razor in his hand.......

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Iskalde Grøss #3/1994 published January 1994
as Nyanser i hvitt [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Haunt of Fear #21 published November 1997
as An Off-Color Heir [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 8

Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Much of the story is told in flashback.

A modern adaptation of the "Bluebeard" folktale.

Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror

Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Ulric, the undying (death); Dr. Emil Manfred (death); Saxton

First Line: Heh, heh! Now that the old hag has bored you with her sissy-scream-scoopings...

Synopsis: A doctor transplants a cat's nine lives gland into a derelict in order to make money in death-defying stunts. The derelict betrays the doctor in order to keep more of the money, but the doctor has the last laugh by realizing the derelict is miscounting the lives he has left to lose since the dead cat had already used one making eight, not nine left.

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Iskalde Grøss #8/1989 published January 1989
as Ni liv! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Haunt of Fear #21 published November 1997
as Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Out of Sight!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: horror

First Line: Ransom crouched in the weeds bordering the lake...

Synopsis: A jewel thief tries to escape by hiding in the outskirts of a lake and is attacked and killed by angry geese.

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Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: No letters; proposal and structure of The E.C. Fan-Addict Club

Corker!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Haunt of Fear

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); unnamed woman (death); a psychologist (villain)

First Line: Here's a horror yarn that's a corker!

Synopsis: A woman with suicidal tendencies and the skeptical psychologist who loves her visit a swami who diagnoses her problem as stemming from her having witnessed the hanging of an obese man whose head popped right off the body releasing a 'decapitation Lamia' that has possessed her and, sadly, can only be removed by decapitation. She flees from the swami in terror, rushing down into the subway, where she finds herself thrown under the train wheels and decapitated. The pursuing psychologist bursts into maniacal laughter as the Lamia now possesses him.

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Iskalde Grøss #6/1989 published January 1989
as Korka! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Haunt of Fear #21 published November 1997
as Corker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

The High Cost of Dying!

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Henri Courbet; Suzette Courbet (Henri's wife, death); Courbet children [Marie; Pierre]; unnamed Commissioner of Health (death); M'sieu Le Ducart (doctor); M'sieu Greviard (undertaker); unnamed Police Officer

First Line: Heh, heh! It's so nice to see your putrid pusses again, creeps, peering into the Vault.

Synopsis: A man in nineteenth century Paris is faced with the choice of paying a licensed undertaker money he does not have to bury his wife or turning her corpse over to medical students for dissection practice because of a new ordinance passed by the Commissioner of Health. He drops a body off in the evening at the medical college, and the following day uses the money he's received to buy food and clothes for his starving children and to bury his wife. The medical students realize that the body they've received is that of the Commissioner of Health.

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Tales from the Crypt #[nn] published December 1964
as The High Cost of Dying [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Iskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Høye døde-kostnader [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Haunt of Fear #21 published November 1997
as The High Cost of Dying! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! #[nn] published January 2005
as The High Cost of Dying! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script revisions and letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Cover story.