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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #42
Publication Date: June 1954
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Issues: #42 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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[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)
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #26 published December 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Concerto for Violin and Werewolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Sacha Barak (concert violinist, death); Marta (death); Rudolf; Vasile Iorga (villain, Sacha's violin teacher, a werewolf)
First Line: Greetings, boils and ghouls!
Synopsis: A violinist who has read "Midnight Mess" in Tales from the Crypt #35 suspects that the Transylvanian town he has come to visit his old teacher in has a werewolf infestation problem. However, his suspicions do not go deep enough, as he overlooks his teacher, who has replaced his sub-machine gun with a violin.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as Concerto for Violin and Werewolf [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1992 published January 1992
as Konsert for fiolin og varulv [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #26 published December 1998
as Concerto for Violin and Werewolf [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Writer credit of Carl Wessler per EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" (2013).
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By The Dawn's Early Light

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! And now it's my turn to freeze the watery blood in your distended veins, kiddies!
Synopsis: A man who has just flown in into New York from Illinois ties up a man he suspects of being a vampire just before dawn and makes him lie in a coffin. When he doesn't fall asleep at dawn, he unties him, and the vampire leaps for his throat reminding him that Illinois is an hour behind New York and he forgot to reset his watch.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as By the Dawn's Early Light [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #26 published December 1998
as By the Dawn's Early Light [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.

Cover story. Only it's one man trying to kill a vampire rather than a whole town.
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On Ice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Plimpton fingered the wad of bills...
Synopsis: An arsonist is hired to burn down a frozen food locker company for insurance. While he's setting up, a security guard enters and he hides from him in one of the freezers. The freezer door accidentally shuts, locking him in and causing him to freeze to death.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Compiles horror-based song title parodies.
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Pages: 1
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The Bath

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Senor Pedro Tobosa (silver mine owner); Juan Vendoza (Radul's brother, death); Radul's Parents (both die); Senor Pedro Tobosa (silver mine owner, death); Radul Vendoza (villain by revenge, Tabosa's servant)
First Line: This yarn is dripping with sweet and clean horror...
Synopsis: A servant of the owner of a silver mine gets revenge on his master by filling his bath with piranha. This after the mine owner unknowningly works the servant's younger brother to death and shoots his parents.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6 [1988] published January 1988
as Badet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as The Bath [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #26 published December 1998
as The Bath [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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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.

Feldstein script credit per Greg Sadowski in "Master Race and Other Stories" (2018).

Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Hoodwinked!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Chet Doyle (death); Leon Doyle (villain of sorts); Mrs. Doyle (Chet and Leon's mother, in flashback, death); Jerry Hudson; Claire (Leon's girl, death)
First Line: Hee, hee! Hobble into 'The Haunt of Fear,' hidiots...
Synopsis: A woman commits suicide when her fiancee's younger brother gets drunk and rapes her. The older brother cuts his head off and uses it as the car ornament that the younger brother had asked him for.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1991 published January 1991
as Den siste dråpen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as Hoodwinked! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #26 published December 1998
as Hoodwinked! [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.

Much of the story is told in flashback.

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