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Issue: Vault of Horror #37
Publication Date: June 1954
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Issues: #37 of 29 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
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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
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Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 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
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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 #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover title is taken from the 3rd story in the issue, after which the cover was based.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Panic
Synopsis: B/W EC house ad for Panic.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Surprise Party!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Drusilla (cameo); Jerry Adams
First Line: Heh, heh! Here we go again!
Synopsis: Jerry Adams arrived in a small town on a rainy night. While driving around, he gets lost and leaves his car when he spots an old manor in the distance. He enters the house and notices a dance going on featuring people in period piece clothing. He's invited to join in but notices the band plays only one tune the entire night. His hostess tells him that it was the tune being played on the night of the fire in 1884 that killed them all. When the partygoers find out that Jerry is a descendant of the man who caused the fire, they turn into rotted zombies and exact revenge on him.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1991 published January 1991
as Selsomt selskap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Surprise Party! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: First appearance of Drusilla the companion of the Vault Keeper.
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Chop Talk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Emil Voight; Anna; Heinrich
First Line: Heh, heh! Greetings, ghouls!
Synopsis: Emil was having an affair with Anna. When Anna decided to end their relationship, he killed her. This was witnessed by her husband Heinrich who turned him over to the police. Emil was sentenced to have his head chopped off. Little did he know his executioner was Heinrich himself. Heinrich began psychologically tormenting Emil about his impending execution. When the day came, Emil cheerfully accepted his fate. When Heinrich saw this, he lost his temper, killed Emil, then swallowed poison to not only be with his Anna but to kill Emil again and again and again for all eternity in the afterlife.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4 [1988] published January 1988
as Hals over hode [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Chop Talk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Sharp

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): Milton Canasta; Aunt Bridger
First Line: As far back as he could remember, Milton Canasta had hated his miserly old Aunt.
Synopsis: Milton hated the fact that while he scraped by to survive, his rich blind Aunt Bridger squandered the family fortune on antique jewelry; jewelry she couldn't even see due to her blindness! He decided to steal an odd snake ring putting it on his finger hoping to pawn it. Aunt Bridger walked into the room and squeezed his hand on his way out causing the ring to prick his finger with poison killing him.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Sharp [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Do People Laugh At You for Reading Comics Books?

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mad comics
Synopsis: EC house ad for MAD Comics.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: VK presents a pieces of perverted poetry from John Wykoff and G.R.D., then some Pulsating Pograms from Larry Hauck and Also Betro, then some Morbid Movies from Bob Burg, then some Lurid Lyrics from Pete Oliphant, and finally new lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by E. Nelson Bridwell. Finally, VK prints letters from L.P. and Ritchie Brocket, then pushes the EC 3-D mags and subscriptions to the Vault of Horror.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
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Pages: 1
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Take Care

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Jefferson Bates (trustee of estate, death); Albrecht Dench (caretaker of estate, death); Avery Ballusk (former owner of estate, death); Rudolph Dregg (Ballusk's butler)
First Line: Here's a tale about a caretaker, and oddly enough, it's called...
Synopsis: Albrecht Dench is hired to be the caretaker of a gloomy old mansion where the previous owner, a miser named Avery Ballusk, was found hung. People suspected that his butler Rudolph Dregg had committed the murder, but it was never proven and he had disappeared anyway. That night Dench hears footsteps in the darkness and dies of fright. The next morning Dregg's body is seen hanging with the same noose that he hung Ballusk with, alongside Ballusk's rotting corpse.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1994 published January 1994
as Vær på vakt! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Take Care [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Take Care [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Inker credit changed. Previously credited to Williamson as pencil/ink because he signed the story. However thanks to some sharp eyes at the GAC, Torres has signed a picture in the next to last panel.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Cover story.
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Oh! Henry!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Lieutenant Lionel "Hard Hart" Hart (detective, death); unnamed shopkeeper; Henry (old lady's husband, death); unnamed old lady (villain)
First Line: Hee, hee! I don't know why I'm laughing!
Synopsis: Detective Lionel Hart had made many arrests, never listening to phony stories from the guilty. One day he caught an old lady shoplifting. She pleaded stating that the food she took was for her sick paralyzed husband. But Hart wouldn't listen, got her convicted, and had her thrown into jail for a month. A month later he decided to check the woman's story out, and went over to her home and found her husband dead in his wheelchair! Blaming himself, he wanted to make amends, but was in for a surprise when the now insane old lady poisoned him and began to butcher him to feed her dead husband.
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In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1990 published January 1990
as Nødrett! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #26 published January 1999
as Oh! Henry! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

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