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Issue: Vault of Horror #32
Publication Date: August 1953
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Issues: #32 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: 07/02/1953
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: On sale date from date stamp on cover.
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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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Out of His Head

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Vault of Horror #6 published June 1991
as Out of His Head! [Illustration on Cover, Front]uncensored
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #21 published October 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover title from 2nd story, from which the cover is based. This cover was censored as being much too gory for readers, as it featured a meat cleaver stuck in the ghoul's head. The Gladstone and Gemstone reprintings display the actual cover.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mad
Synopsis: EC House ad for Mad Comics.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Whirlpool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed woman; three asylum employees
First Line: Well, well!
Synopsis: Her mind was whirling as three horrid creatures hovered over her, asking her her name, and she ran to escape. A series of events: thrown into boiling water, plunged into ice, poked with a hypodermic, strapped into an electric chair, and put into a small room that kept shrinking. She thought she was going insane, but the men told her everything had been in her mind and that she was an inmate in an insane asylum. She began to quiver and as they began to ask her her name, she suddenly remembered that THEY were the ones trying to persecute her!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #[nn] published December 1964
as Whirlpool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Whirlpool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Hvirvelstrømmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6 [1988] published January 1988
as Malstrøm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #21 published October 1997
as Whirlpool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #3 published April 2003
as Malstrøm [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Out of His Head!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Stanley (Alex's law partner, death); unnamed doctor; Alex Melton (villain, lawyer, death)
First Line: Greetings, ghouls! Let's drink blood pools!
Synopsis: Alex had murdered Stanley with an axe to his head, trying to blame the death on a maniac. It seemed, however, that the dead man kept haunting him day and night, and everywhere Alex looked, his former law partner was still there. Unable to stand it any longer, he blinded himself with an icepick. He was taken to the hospital and operated on, and when the bandages were removed, he saw someone. He figured it was Stanley again and ran to the window and jumped out to his death. The doctor looked out the window and all he could say was that the man must be mad!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1990 published January 1990
as Blodig blikkfang! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #21 published October 1997
as Out of His Head! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Cover story.
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Crash Landing!

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
Character(s): Brewster; Crawford
Synopsis: With the plane in the air, Brewster emerged from hiding in the back of the plane, wrench in hand, and crept to the cockpit, where he hit Crawford over the head. As the plane spiraled out of control, Brewster ran to the emergency door and jumped out, waiting to pull the ripcord of his parachute until the last second possible so that no one would see him. As he came down, he watched the plane crash into a grove of trees, splintering the ends, and burn. But a sudden shift in the wind brought Brewster closer and closer to the splintered branch limbs until he jammed into them which stopped his descent. In agony, he noted that the limbs had torn open his stomach, and as he lay dying, his body writhing on the end of a branch, he felt like some insect squirming on a needle in a science lab!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This text story is found on the inner part of the two pages, with EC house ads to either side. One was for Weird Fantasy #20 [with an Al Feldstein cover], and the other side featured, with covers, the Complete Old & New Testament editions 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: In this issue's letter column, VK prints letters from Mrs. Monroe ASdams, Terry Black, Ronnie Audet, PFC Hank Wawrzyniak, Ray Parrinello, Dennis Taplin, Robert Travieso, Martin Fishman, David McGill and Richard L. Bruch before pushing readers to buy subsciptions to EC mags.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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An Ample Sample

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Hannah (Irwin's wife, death); Bert; Irwin (villain)
First Line: Here's a sweet terror-tale with an appetizing wind-up!
Synopsis: Irwin was telling his neighbor Bert of how he and his wife Hannah fell in love and how Hannah loved expensive chocolates so much. She got fatter as he had to do without vital necessities, and he just couldn't take it anymore. Irwin admitted to killing her and asked Bert to come over to his house. As they walked in, Bert gasped in horror as he spotted a giant, hand-made chocolate box, marked with different types of candy, and pieces of Hannah in each part!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #21 published October 1997
as An Ample Sample [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

The visages of the Vault-Keeper on pages 1 and 6 are a photostat by Johnny Craig, taken from his story, "Werewolf Concerto".

Evans drew himself in as neighbor Bert throughout the story.
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Funereal Disease!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Jasper Milliken (gardener, death); Niles Fairchild (villain, Jasper's employer, death); Tom Kelton (villain, Jasper's accountant)
First Line: Hee, hee! So it's wind-up time in V.K.'s mag again...
Synopsis: Jasper went to his cottage on the Fairchild Estate and counted up the $4,970 he had been saving and knew as soon as Mr. Fairchild paid him the last $30 he owed him, he'd be set: set to have the funeral that was denied to his parents. Unfortunately, Niles Fairchild was bankrupt, and desperately needed $5,000 to get him out of the trouble he was in. When Jasper refused to lend him the money, Fairchild and his accountant murdered Jasper and took the money. Jasper's corpse killed Fairchild, removed him from the man's coffin and took his place, and got the funeral he wanted.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #4 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1993 published January 1993
as Lik over lik! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #21 published October 1997
as Funereal Disease! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Title correction, script and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

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