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Issue: Vault of Horror #30
Publication Date: April 1953
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Issues: #30 of 29 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: L. L. 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: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The cover title was taken from the third story, on which the cover was based.
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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
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Practical Choke

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #30 published May 1953
as Practical Choke [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #19 published April 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover title was taken from the 3rd story, from which the cover was based.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mad
Synopsis: House ad for MAD #4 [with a cover by Harvey Kurtzman] surrounded by the Severin art.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Split Personality!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); The Blair sisters [Amy; Susan] (villains); Ed King (villain, racketeer, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Hello, again!
Synopsis: Ed King was a racketeer trying to find a way to bilk the Blair sisters out of their millions. When he saved their cat, he was invited into their home, and since both ladies liked him, he decided to pretend to be twins and marry both of them, using excuses to be away a week at a time in order to be with his other wife. Ed made a huge mistake while tanning one day, and the sisters soon discovered what was going on, and decided to deal with this bigamist. They took an axe and split him right down the middle, so that they each would have "half a husband"!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Personlighetsspaltning [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #19 published April 1997
as Split Personality! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Who Doughnut?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Danny Hughes (reporter, death); Pat (Danny's secretary, death); various Policemen; an octopus (villain)
First Line: Heh, heh! And now, it's my turn to curdle your blood.
Synopsis: Seven women had been murdered and the Police were baffled by the doughnut-shaped wounds all over their bodies, blood drained and traces of sea brine on their skin and clothing. Danny Hughes, crime reporter, was on the scene and mocked the Police for not having a suspect. The next day, Danny's secretary was murdered in the same way, and was suspected until another killing occured. Danny remembered seeing a strange figure near Pat's home, and when he saw it again, he followed it to an aquarium, and came face to face with a blood-sucking octopus!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #19 published April 1997
as Who Doughnut? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Reference is made to H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Refuge

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illo)
Inker(s): ? (spot illo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: He could hear the footsteps more distinctly now...
Synopsis: He could hear the Police chasing him as he ran inside the building, clutching the gems in his hand and looking for a hiding place. He entered a large circular room with glass enclosures all around him....then he spotted something moving behind one of the glass walls. He saw fish....so he decided to hop into the water and go under to elude the Police. It worked....until he felt a horrible pain in one leg, and looked up to see the sign hanging above the tank: PIRANHA! Quickly he was surrounded, as he felt himself being torn to shreads!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The text story is found on the inner halves of the two pages, and EC houses ads are found to either side. One promotes Weird Fantasy #18 [], while the other side promotes, with covers, the Complete Old and New Testaments from the Picture Stories From the Bible series, Picture Stories From Science #2 and Picture Stories From World History #2.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: VK starts off his column by complaining that dealers are shipping unopened cartons of EC mags to the distributor, so he asks readers to ask their dealers for EC mags. Letters are printed from Audrey Abernathy, Hazel Wilson, George Salaita, Gary Schooley, Paul George, Michael Pecker, Frank Ray Stansbury, Carol Plumb andBill Lean. Then he lists more additions to the "Horror Hit Parade" tune list, pushes the EC Tales of Terror #3 mag and subscriptions.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Practical Choke!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein; three pre-med students (all die); various Police officers
First Line: Here's a gay tale of tingling terror.
Synopsis: Three medical students play a series of practical jokes using actual human body parts and watching the reactions of various people. The med students roared with laughter, but then seriously wondered what would happen when it was discovered parts of a cadaver was missing, so they went to get the remaining body parts and dispose of them, not noticing a pile of coiled-up intestines that were moving toward them. The next day the Police found the body parts and the students: in a refrigerated unit with the intestines coiled around their necks.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Med hodet under armen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #19 published April 1997
as Practical Choke! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: In this story are cariactures of Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein in the first panel on page 2 and in many other panels throughout the story.

Script revision (from Feldstein) and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Cover story.
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Notes to You!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Judson Slack; Eleanor Slack (Judson's wife, death); Horton Cox; Simon Pitter (Cox's employee, death); Averill Minton (bank President, death); Bert Fields (bank employee); Mr. Popkin (candy store owner); Ambrose Baldwin (death)
First Line: Hee, hee! Well, salt my slop-stew and sling me a slug...
Synopsis: Four different people receive to what amounts to anonymous poison-pen letters, each resulting in horrendous events surrounding their families or businesses. Three of the surviving four men meet together and begin to realize that all these recent events were connected by these anonymous letters, and Poppin knew the answer, for he had given the suspect, Ambrose Baldwin, a bottle of disappearing ink, and his letter had now become blank. The men then visited Baldwin...with their own poison pens!
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1993 published January 1993
as Et brev betyr så mye [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #19 published April 1997
as Notes To You! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Al Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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