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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #45
Publication Date: December 1954
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Issues: #45 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
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
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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
Format Notes:  
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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 album #1 published November 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #29 published September 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #5 published July 2003
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Telescope

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric Walford (seaman on the Bramwell, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Menace, anyone?
Synopsis: A man and a rat from a shipwreck wash up on an island and eye each other warily as the only food source available. The starving rat ultimately eats a bird who was eating a fish, while the starving man eats the rat but gets eaten by a shark.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1989 published January 1989
as Teleskop [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1991
as Telescope [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #29 published September 1999
as Telescope [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #5 published July 2003
as Teleskop [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
Reprint Notes:  
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.

Cover story.
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The Substitute

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
First Line: Here's a delightful sample of escape literature called...
Synopsis: A man assumes that the body of the governor of the penal colony he is a prisoner in will be sent back to Paris, so he kills him with a poisoned dart from a blowgun and makes plans to switch places with his body in the casket. They nail him in and bury him at sea.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1989 published January 1989
as Bank i bordet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1991
as The Substitute [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #29 published September 1999
as The Substitute [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #35 published March 2006
as Stedfortrederen [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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This Is An Appeal For Action!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A Special Editorial
First Line: THE PROBLEM: Comics are under fire... horror and crime comics in particular.
Synopsis: A letter pleading with readers to fight back against the growing hysteria over how horror comics are responsible for juvenile delinquency.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #29 published September 1999
as This Is An Appeal For Action! [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This was a failed plea, as ultimately the subsequent imposition of the highly restrictive Comics Code killed the horror titles and ultimately EC Comics.
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Squeeze Play

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: From the place where he crouched on the metal ladder...
Synopsis: An assassin hides in a sewer and shoots his target, a steam roller driver. When he tries to escape, he gets stuck in the wet asphalt and the now out of control steamroller crushes him.
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Pages: 1
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Murder Dream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Tales From the Crypt
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Howard Leighton (death) [as Claude Grymes in dream sequences]; Cathy Leighton (Howard's wife, death); Claude Grymes (villain, house caretaker)
First Line: Here's a crazy, mixed-up frightmare I call...
Synopsis: A maniac axe murderer assumes his victim's identity in his dreams until he is compelled to return to the scene of the crime to murder the victim's wife as well.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7 [1988] published January 1988
as Morderdrøm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1991
as Murder Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #29 published September 1999
as Murder Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagB. Krigstein Comics #[nn] published July 2004
as Murder Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as Murder Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Layout, Jack Davis, letterer and colorist credits by Craig Delich.

Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Much of story told in dream sequences.
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The Switch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Carlton Webster; Fulton (Webster's butler); Linda Stewart Booth (Carleton's love interest); Dr. Hurley (Carleton's physician); Dr. Faulkner (surgeon); George Booth (man who swapped body parts with Carleton)
First Line: Hee, hee! Hi, horror hooligans!
Synopsis: An old millionaire falls in love with a young woman but he doesn't want her to marry him for his money so he tells her he's poor. She rejects him because his face and body are too old looking. He gets a doctor to do a expensive face and torso transplant with a large sum of the money going to the young George Booth who is the body donor. She still isn't satisfied because he still has old legs. He spends the last of his fortune to swap out his legs. Now young looking but poor, he finds out she married the now old George Booth because she only wanted to marry a millionaire and George is rich now.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDe vloek van de volle maan #[nn] published January 1981
as De transplantatie [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1989 published January 1989
as Det gamle skinnet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1991
as The Switch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #29 published September 1999
as The Switch [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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