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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #1
Publication Date: July 1990
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGladstone
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Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
On Sale Date: 1990
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN:
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Price: $2.50 CAD
$1.95 USD
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Content Items: 18 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: A reprinting of Tales from the Crypt #33 and Crime Suspenstories #17. The text stories, "Castaway" and "Big Blow!" from the original issues are not reprinted in this issue.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Lower Berth!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Tales from the Crypt
Character(s): Enoch; Myrna; The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)
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From Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #33 published December 1952
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Dreadful Pleasures

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Lower Berth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host, origin); Enoch; Myrna
Synopsis: The Crypt-Keeper tells the tale of a traveling carnival and it's two star attractions, a two-headed man and a female mummy who fall in love and give birth to a famous story teller.
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From Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #33 published December 1952
was Lower Berth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover feature.
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This Trick'll Kill You!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Synopsis: A magician murders an Indian girl for her trick of causing a rope to rise and dance when she plays her flute. However, he finds out how dangerous a living rope can become.
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From Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #33 published December 1952
was This Trick'll Kill You! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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A Rare E.C. Offer

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The Funeral

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt-Keeper's Grim Fairy Tale!
Synopsis: A young boy is devastated by the death of his nanny. But, it turns out she was simply in a coma. The boy is overjoyed until he finds out a funeral might have all sorts of good food for the taking. Well, he ensures the nanny will have a funeral, after all.
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From Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #33 published December 1952
was The Funeral [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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None But the Lonely Heart!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Synopsis: A con man with a penchant for murdering his wives finally finds true love. But, one of his ex-wives still has something to say about it.
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From Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #33 published December 1952
was None But the Lonely Heart! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Gladstone Is Your Source...

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Genres: horror, science fiction
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Crime SuspenStories #17

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime Suspenstories
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From Content Item: FlagCrime SuspenStories #17 published June 1953
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Now You Can Have Your Favorite Fiends Boxed!

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Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper
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Touch and Go!

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Genres: crime
Synopsis: When a man commits the "perfect" murder, he realizes he has to clean his fingerprints off of anything he touched in the house. Things snowball, though, as he tries to remember exactly what he had touched. The police find the next morning, polishing the silverware in the attic.
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From Content Item: FlagCrime SuspenStories #17 published June 1953
was Touch and Go! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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One for the Money...

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Genres: crime
Synopsis: A shameless gold-digger ends up paying for her sins in a roundabout way.
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From Content Item: FlagCrime SuspenStories #17 published June 1953
was One for the Money... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Stuart Glass, Nidred, the Were-cat, Astute Observer, Dick Mandel, Roger A. Nippress, Fred Barth, David S. Spiel, Allan Katz, Art "Eric" Walker, John Reid, G. W. Sheridan, and a bunch of parody titles and poems sent in by various readers.
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The Complete EC Library

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Fired!

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Genres: crime
Synopsis: A spurned wife finds a way to claim her husband forever. Here's a hint: it involves a branding iron.
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From Content Item: FlagCrime SuspenStories #17 published June 1953
was Fired! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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...Two for the Show!

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Genres: crime
Synopsis: A man murder his wife and packs her body into a trunk. He takes trunk on a train and secretly exchanges it with another, identical trunk. When the police look inside his new trunk, though, there's another body in there.
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was ...Two for the Show! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Coming Up Next from Gladstone

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Genres: horror, science fiction
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Now Available! E.C. Classics!

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Genres: crime, fantasy, horror, humorous, science fiction
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Disclose Notes: Outside back cover.

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