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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #46
Publication Date: February 1955
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Issues: #46 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
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)
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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
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 #30 published December 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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In Memoriam

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An editorial on how the horror and shock books are being cancelled due to the community and congressional backlash against these type of books. Also how EC Comics would continue with "New New Trend" titles (later renamed "New Direction" titles).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: It's also mentioned how this was supposed to be the first issue of the new horror title "Crypt of Terror" but was ultimately published as the final issue of "Tales From the Crypt".
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Upon Reflection

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); The Old Witch (cameo); The Vault-Keeper (cameo); Chester Wayne; Paul; Matt; Clara Hanson (the Mayor's wife, death); Mayor Elwood Hanson (villain, a werewolf)
First Line: Heh, heh! Welcome, you dear little morbid monsters...
Synopsis: The mayor of a small town vows revenge upon a werewolf that killed his wife. On the night of the next full moon, he and his posse encounter a woman they suspect may be the culprit, so he returns to his library to check on the signs of a werewolf in human form. When he enters the darkened room, he sees the werewolf's snarling face looming in front of him, and shoots several times. When the posse enters, they see the mayor (the werewolf) shooting at his own reflection in a mirror!
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In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4 [1988] published January 1988
as Ren refleksjon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Upon Reflection [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Blind Alleys

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed blind people; Gunner's unnamed lady friend; Brutus (Gunner's dog); Gunner Grunwald (villain, home's director, eventual death)
First Line: Heh, heh! And now that C.K. has curdled your anemic blood...
Synopsis: The blind victims of an unscrupulous and cruel director lock him and his dog up for several days without food and then release them into a maze with razor blades embedded into the walls. And then turn out the lights. The last thing the director sees is his now wild starving dog lunging at him.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #[nn] published December 1964
as Blind Alleys [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6 [1988] published January 1988
as Blindveier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Blind Alleys [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFoul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! #[nn] published January 2005
as Blind Alleys [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

The visage of the Vault-Keeper on page 1 is a photostat by Johnny Craig taken from the story "Werewolf Concerto".

This story was Evans's last horror story for EC.

In reprints it's the Crypt Keeper who introduces this story rather than the Vault Keeper.
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Gone To Seed

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: It was back-breaking work, but it had to be done.
Synopsis: A farmer kills his wife and attempts to bury her out in the field before any of the farmhands can see what he's doing. However he accidentally pushes the lever of his plow and it shreds him to pieces.
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Pages: 1
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Success Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Here's how one failure turned his miserable life into a horrible...
Synopsis: A woman and her parents move in with a man they nag constantly to get ahead in the world because he can't afford their demands for gadgets. Eventually the nagging pushes him over the edge and he returns from the kitchen brandishing a meat cleaver. He giggles to the arresting officers "I not only got ahead, I got three heads." as they look over the three severed heads on silver platters in the dining room.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Success Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Tatter Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Fanny Ogden (old maid, death); Ragman (creature made of rags); Tony Barrett (villain, death)
First Line: Hee, hee! And now it's wind-up spot in C.K.'s new creeps comic...
Synopsis: Tony Barrett marries a rich but decrepit old woman for her money. When he can't find her hidden fortune he murders her. Meanwhile the local ragman (who was smitten with her) murders Tony for revenge. You see this ragman was a supernatural being literally made up entirely of rags that she had constantly donated to him.
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In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #6 published January 1977
as Tatter Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Tatter Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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