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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #40
Publication Date: February 1954
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Issues: #40 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: 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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Cover, Front
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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 Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss album #2 published May 1990
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #24 published June 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Food for Thought

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric (Marta's lover, animal trainer, death); Marta (Carl's wife, circus mind reader); Carl (villain, Marta's husband, thought projector, death); a ghoul (villain)
First Line: Heh, heh! I see you're hungry for horror again.
Synopsis: A woman plots to run away with the circus animal trainer because her husband, even though he can project his thoughts to her which they use as their act, does not love her. The husband tumbles to the plot and forces the animal trainer at gunpoint into the lion's cage where he is torn apart. The wife suspects him but has no proof and so when the husband is accidentally paralyzed when a beam lands upon him while the circus packs up, she ignores his thoughts for help and coldly advises them not to embalm him so that he is buried alive.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2 [1988] published January 1988
as Det er servert! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #24 published June 1998
as Food for Thought [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.
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Pearly to Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Phil Cannon (death); Gladys (Phil's girl); unnamed college swimming coach; Larry Miles (villain, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Salutations, slime savorers!!
Synopsis: Two navy divers discover a pearl bed while placing demo charges and make plans to go back for them after the war ends. One gets greedy and murders the other one whose corpse then surprises him while he is attempting to acquire the pearls.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1992 published January 1992
as Perlevenner! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #24 published June 1998
as Pearly to Dead [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 drew himself in as the pilot at the top of page 7.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Cover story.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Rundown of song titles of the day retitled with humorous horror names.
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Choice!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The ground was soft and clinging as Farraday slipped out...
Synopsis: A convict escapes a jungle prison and hides from the guards by burying himself in the jungle. One of the reasons he couldn't stand the prison anymore is because it was infested by mosquitoes, spiders and other vermin. However by hiding in this hole, he is being eaten alive by vicious maggots. Does he wait it out in this hole and endure these bugs or surrender and go back to the prison to endure those bugs?
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Pages: 1
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Prairie Schooner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mildred Jackson [aka Milly] (death); Mr. Gunner (shop owner, cameo); unnamed plumber; unnamed carpenter; Captain Ezra Jackson (villain, sailor, death)
First Line: Here's a bubbly little tale of titanic terror!
Synopsis: Old seaman Ezra is abruptly retired from his duties at sea and shows up at the home of his old time friend, Milly. Stranded in this Kansas home, away from all he ever knew at sea, the sailor goes mad and converts Milly's house into a ship in the middle of a prairie and she is made the one-man crew of the ship, until she drops dead.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss album #1 published November 1989
as Prærieskonnert [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #24 published June 1998
as Prairie Schooner [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.

Oddity: The Crypt-Keeper is clearly the host of this story. However, the final panel, featuring the Crypt-Keeper, has him stating that he is turning readers over TO the Crypt-Keeper for the final story in the issue.
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Half-Baked!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Calvin Dugan; John (restaurant's chef)
First Line: Hee, hee! And now it's morbid-meal-time.
Synopsis: A man who enjoys tormenting lobster ends up in a car crash where the steering column disembowels him and the flames that erupt broil him alive.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1991 published January 1991
as Hummer og harakiri! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #24 published June 1998
as Half-Baked! [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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