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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #44
Publication Date: October 1954
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Issues: #44 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: 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 Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1989 published January 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #28 published June 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Forever Ambergris

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eileen Harper (Ben's wife); Ben Harper (Sultana's first mate, death); Captain Matt Starke (villain, Sultana’s skipper)
First Line: Heh, heh! Slide into the sloppy slimy Crypt of Terror, fiend-fans.
Synopsis: A sea captain murders a man for his wife by having him row out to a plague island where he contracts the disease. When he is rotting away they toss him overboard, but a whale swallows him and then vomits him up. The captain knows the spew is valuable for perfume so he collects it and presents it to the murdered man's wife where she dons it in the bathroom and opens the door to reveal her instantaneously rotting flesh.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1990 published January 1990
as Ambra kadavra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #28 published June 1999
as Forever Ambergris [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Burial at Sea

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! Seasick, eh?
Synopsis: A man kills an old man for thirty gold coins and thinks that there must be more to the treasure when he finds a treasure map locating a spot just offshore underwater. The old man claimed he had been 'prepared' for him and when he visits the location marked underwater he realizes the old man was right as it is a grave marker with his name on it that falls over on his diving suit keeping him pinned until he drowns.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #28 published June 1999
as Burial at Sea [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Gunman

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: With the cardboard carton propped against the wall...
Synopsis: A burglar breaks into a house and threatens the occupants; a wife and her young son. The wife is married to a lab assistant at a chemical plant. Her son shoots the burglar in the face with his water pistol. The burglar begins screaming as his face melts away. You see the son filled his water pistol with some of daddy's sulphuric acid. Something his mother had told him not to do many times!
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #28 published June 1999
as Gunman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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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: A rundown of song lyrics of the day with horror lyrics substituted.
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The Proposal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Here s a terror-tale of a chick who finally wormed the proposal
Synopsis: A woman who uses men to stay surrounded by the finer things in life finally hears what she wants to hear: "I want you for my wife." In this case, her intended sucker literally wants her for a meal to his undead bloodsucker wife.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1992 published January 1992
as Frieriet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #28 published June 1999
as The Proposal [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Sliceman Cometh

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Jean Courbeau; Claude Courbeau (corpse, rises from the grave); Marat (government judge); Robespierre (Master of France, cameo); Edouard (fisherman); Henri (fisherman); Bodin; Madam Barette (Andre's landlady); Monsieur Etienne (Madame Barette's boarder); Andre Vache (villain, executioner, death)
First Line: Hee, hee! Come in, creeps.
Synopsis: An executioner during the Terror, who takes money from a relative in order to guillotine his brother, finds he has a difficult time in getting rid of the head. Eventually he becomes frustrated with his efforts to dispose of the ever-returning head and picks up a cleaver and minces it. That evening, he receives a visit from the corpse who wants its head back, and finding that not possible, rips the head from the executioner's shoulders to use in its place.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1991 published January 1991
as En vanskelig kunde! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #28 published June 1999
as The Sliceman Cometh [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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