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Issue: Haunt of Fear #15 [1]
Publication Date: May 1950
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Issues: #15 [1] of 28 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/24/1950
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch
Synopsis: The Old Witch in her haunt with various spooks.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #15 [1] published June 1950
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published November 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #15 published May 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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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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The Wall: A Psychological Study

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): Clara Harper (Neal's wife, death); Neal Harper (villain); Snooky (a cat)
Synopsis: Clara is always harping to Neal about tending to the cat's needs, even if they supersede those of him as her husband. When Neal accidently kills Clara instead of Snooky, he decides to wall up his wife's body in the cellar. Unfortunately, Neal's conscience and the cat get the best of him!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1 [1988] published February 1988
as Veggen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published November 1992
as The Wall [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: A story similar to Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat with a few themes from The Telltale Heart mixed in.

Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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House of Horror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Les Wilton; Henderson (death?); Waters (death?); Arling (death?)
Synopsis: Three college freshmen pledgees disappear one night as part of the Gamma Delta Fraternity hazing at a local haunted house, the Palmer Place. Les Wilton goes in after them, but when he doesn't make a re-appearance, people going into the home looking for him find him: having aged fifty years!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #21 published December 1950
as House of Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published November 1992
as House of Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published September 1993
as House of Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear, Volume 1 (2011) lists the writer as Ivan Klapper.

Klapper also wrote a few early stories in The Vault of Horror and Tales from the Crypt, as well as some of the early one page text features. He later became a consultant for the 1959-1961 ABC-TV paranormal TV drama, "One Step Beyond."

The story appears to have drawn its inspiration from a fraternity initiation anecdote from Bennett Cerf's "Try and Stop Me," also a favorite source of plot inspiration for Bill Gaines.

Kurtzman recounts that it was this story that got him the EX account.

Writer credit revised from Al Feldstein to Ivan Klapper and letterer credit revised from Jim Wroten to Ben Oda by Craig Delich.

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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References:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
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Out of the Grave

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Marie; The Thing [Jim] (the walking dead); unnamed man (villain, death)
Synopsis: Having already killed her friend Jim and buried him, the un-named man tied Marie to the chair and set the cabin on fire, all to get her inheritance. But Jim was not content to allow the girl he once cared for and promised to protect die in the fire, so he rose from the grave to exact his revenge on her tormentor!
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published November 1992
as Out of the Grave [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Adapted in Tales from the Crypt reprints as full 8-page story sequence re-titled as "The Thing from the Grave."
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The Mad Magician

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): Jim Crane (reporter); Alice Crane (Jim's wife); Czar (Boris' dog); Caesar (Boris' dog); Boris Petaja (villain, magician, death)
Synopsis: Skilled in the tricks of ancient and modern magic, a mad magician decides to perform the ultimate trick of all time: to saw a man in half and then put him back together again. What he doesn't know is that a trick of fate will turn the tables on the magician.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published November 1992
as The Mad Magician [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1994 published January 1994
as Den gale magiker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as The Mad Magician [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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The Thing in the Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Scientific SuspenStory
Character(s): Sam (death?); unnamed partner of Sam (death?); Robert Colby (Marie's fiancee); Professor Carl Ward (scientist, death); Marie Ward (Ward's daughter, death)
Synopsis: Two men are making their way through the Okefenokee Swamp when an old man warns them not to continue on. When questioned, the man recounts the story of three people, two of them scientists, who came to the swamp to conduct an experiment, which they felt failed. When the mixture they made was thrown into the swamp, a strange blob-like creature was born, which killed the scientist and his daughter. The old man warns them of extreme danger if they continue, and the fact that the old man was the fiancee of the scientist's daughter doesn't sway them one bit!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Vault of Horror #1 published January 1982
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #15 published October 1950
as Terror in the Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published November 1992
as The Thing in the Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #4 published July 1993
as Terror in the Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled, also different splash and last panel
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1994 published January 1994
as Hva sumpen gjemte! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Splash page and last panel altered to The Old Witch in Vault of Horror reprints, although character was still in green robe like the Vault-Keeper. The Old Witch usually had a red robe.

A Blob-type story.

Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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