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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #39
Publication Date: December 1953
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Issues: #39 of 27 Issues
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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 Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDe vloek van de volle maan #[nn] published January 1981
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1989 published January 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #23 published March 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Undertaking Palor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Chubby; Pete; Billy; Percy Vandam, Jr.; Percy Vandam, Sr. (Percy's father, death); Averill Esprock (villain, undertaker, death); Mort Grudny (villain, druggist, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! So you're back for more gore, eh, fiends?
Synopsis: Some boys peeping through an undertaker's basement window overhear a plot between the town druggist and undertaker to poison citizens to profit from their funeral costs. When Percy's father becomes a victim, they resolve to take matters into their own hands!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagDe vloek van de volle maan #[nn] published January 1981
as Begrafenis apotheker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1992 published January 1992
as Den som graver en grav [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #23 published March 1998
as Undertaking Palor [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.

Cover story.
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The Craving Grave!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Cynthia (death)
First Line: Heh, heh. And now, vultures, if you venture into the Vault of Horror...
Synopsis: This story is told by a grave. It speaks of spending lonely years of being laughed at by the other graves, because they have children (corpses) while the narrator remains barren. Finally a casket is brought to the craving grave, but the body of Cynthia does not rest in peace. Her no-good nephew, who once robbed her, returns with his wife and begs forgiveness. Cynthia takes the two of them in, only to be murdered for her money. Her rotted corpse then rises from the grave and buries her nephew and his wife alive in her spot thus giving the grave two "children" instead.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Vault of Horror #[nn] published August 1965
as The Craving Grave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as The Craving Grave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1992 published January 1992
as Den sultne graven! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #23 published March 1998
as The Craving Grave! [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.
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Fire!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: In a ditch by the side of a railroad track during an intense thunderstorm, a man fights off a powerful attacker killing the assailant with a metal bar. As he contemplates setting the corpse on fire to get rid of it, a lightning bolt strikes the metal bar killing him in a blaze of fire.
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Pages: 1
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The Sleeping Beauty!

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: Because I have received a flood of requests (One... the editor's mother-in-law..)...
Synopsis: In this grim fairy tale, the REAL reason sleeping beauty spends all that time sleeping during the daytime hours is because she turns out to be a vampire.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6 [1988] published January 1988
as Tornerose [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #23 published March 1998
as The Sleeping Beauty! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #19 published November 2004
as Tornerose [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
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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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Shadow of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Ezra Morton (crippled news dealer); unnamed news dealer (death)
First Line: Hee, hee! And now it's wind-up time in C.K.'s muck-mag...
Synopsis: The shadow of a corner newspaper dealer detaches itself from his body one evening and seizes the shadow of an axe in order to assault an unscrupulous competitor who is attempting to ruin him. When they find the corpse of his victim, they are astounded that the corpse casts no shadow.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1991 published January 1991
as Dødsskyggen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #23 published March 1998
as Shadow of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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