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Issue: Vault of Horror #16
Publication Date: December 1950
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Issues: #16 of 29 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/19/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Escape!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault-Keeper; The Old Witch
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper [inset]; The Old Witch [inset]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #16 published January 1951
as Escape! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #5 published October 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover title is taken from the 4th story in this issue, on which the cover is based.

Colors were previously recorded as the work of Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171). The source previously cited by GCD may have been intended to refer to new colors done for Russ Cochran’s 1982 slipcased reprint of the series.
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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Werewolf Concerto!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Hubert Antone (villain, a werewolf, hotel manager, death); Madamoiselle Michelin (villain, a vampire, concert pianist)
First Line: Ha! Ha! Ha!
Synopsis: Guests at a Hungarian hotel are murdered. Guests decide to leave and the owner is upset. In order to get business, he provides famous pianist Mademoiselle Micheline free accommodations. One night, after her arrival guest is horribly murdered, by a werewolf some say. Later that evening, the owner greets Miss Micheline, who heads up to her room. The owner then turns into a werewolf and follows her, but he can find no trace of her. He opens the lid of her piano and finds dirt. As he ponders this, Mademoiselle Michelin, revealed as a vampire, springs out of the darkness and attacks him!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #5 published October 1993
as Werewolf Concerto! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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Fitting Punishment!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, mystery
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper [cameo]; Stanley (Flint's nephew, death); Ezra Flint (villain, undertaker)
First Line: Here is a chilling tale concerning a miserly old undertaker and the horror of his...
Synopsis: On the death of his mother, young Stanley is placed in the care of his uncle, Ezra the town undertaker. Soon, Stanley discovers that his uncle takes jewelry and other valuables from the corpses before burial. Discovered, Ezra kills Stanley and puts him in an available coffin. However, Stanley is too long for it and Ezra shorten him. After the interment, Ezra hears a knock at the door and discovers only Stanley's bandaged foot on the step. Later, another knock leads to Stanley's other foot. A third and final knock brings Ezra face to face with Stanley -- on crutches!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #5 published October 1993
as Fitting Punishment [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This story is loosely based on H. P. Lovecraft's 1925 short story, "In the Vault."
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Business

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illo)
Inker(s): ? (spot illo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: A man stakes out the city subway platform for a week, hoping to see the man he is supposed to kill. One night he spots him, and the two have a furious struggle. Both go over the platform onto the tracks below, where the victim collapses on the third rail and is electrocuted. Unfortunately for his murderer, the victim's hand grasped the killer's ankle, and the volts paralyzed him as he watches a subway train bearing down on him!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This text story is found on the inside halves of each page. To the outside are house ads, one featuring a promo for Weird Fantasy #16 [with a cover by Al Feldstein], the other featuring ads, with covers, for Picture Stories From the Bible: the Complete Old and New Testaments, as well as Old Testament #1-2 and New Testament #1.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (cameo)
Synopsis: The VK discusses last issue's stories in popularity, as voted on by the readers, then informs the readers that the Old Witch will become a permanent feature in the Vault of Horror.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Grave Wager

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (cameo); Pirro, the Wax Man
First Line: Here is a ghastly yarn designed to terrorize you!
Synopsis: Paul and Clyde bet $50 that Roger won't spend the night with a corpse. The two secretly for Pirro, the Wax Man, from a local freak show to play the part of a corpse to better scare Roger. The "body" is delivered to Roger's apartment, and Roger kicks back thinking everything will go smoothly. Suddenly the sheet over the corpse moves and the body gets up and walks toward Roger. The next morning, Paul and Clyde make their way to Roger's apartment to have a laugh. They enter the room to find Roger a raving maniac and the REAL corpse of Pirro -- beaten to a pulp!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #5 published October 1993
as The Grave Wager [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Escape!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron
Character(s): The Old Witch (cameo); Pete Luger
Synopsis: Convict Pete Lugar he devises a scheme to somehow switches places with a corpse being taken out of the prison, in order to make good an escape. Following the next execution at the prison, Lugar switches places with the corpse, expecting a confederate to free him from the executed man's grave. However, inmates come into the morgue, nail the coffin shut, and take it to the prison's new crematorium!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Flukt! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #5 published October 1993
as Escape! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

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