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Issue: The Crypt of Terror #18
Publication Date: June 1950
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Issues: #18 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/21/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1950, page 37, registration number B233218.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Living Corpse!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Jed Bryant; Satanus
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published December 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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SuspenStory Fans!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for Vault of Horror (EC, 1950 series) #13. The page includes small ilustrations of Feldstein and the reproduction of the cover.

Includes the indicia at the end of the page.
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The Maestro's Hand!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (host); Dr. Emanuel Hellman; Virginia Caddy; Maestro Borrstein
First Line: So, we meet again, dear reader!
Synopsis: Dr. Hellman arrives at a cabin in the woods to forget the suicide of his ex-fiancee after he unnecessarily removed the injured piano hand of her lover and he killed himself. When he opens the package he finds upon his doorstep, the detached hand lunges for his throat. When police arrive later, they find the doctor dead from self-strangulation.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as The Maestro's Hand! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1991 published January 1991
as Mannen som tok saken i egne hender! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published December 1992
as The Maestro's Hand! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Living Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Another SuspenStory from The Crypt of Terror!
Character(s): Jed Bryant (morgue attendant, death); Tim (morgue worker); Desiree (Satanus' assistant, death); Satanus (villain, magician, death)
First Line: On fog-shrouded nights, in the loneliest of places, strange horrors walk...
Synopsis: A magician strikes his assistant while wearing a snake ring and then attempts to locate where her body was taken by playing dead himself as to remove the snake imprint evidence. He assaults the morgue attendant but is locked into the freezer while the attendant suffers a heart attack and is thus doomed to freeze to death.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as The Living Corpse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published December 1992
as The Living Corpse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1994 published January 1994
as Det levende lik [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as The Living Corpse [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Portrait of Life... and Death!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Rollini touched his paint-brush to the palette...
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published December 1992
as Portrait of Life ... and Death! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Madness at Manderville

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Another SuspenStory from the Crypt of Terror!
Character(s): Tom Mander; Marion Mander; Rusty (a dog, death); Dr. Brenner; Dr. Holbrook
First Line: Those lights Mrs. Mander thought she saw flickering in the night...
Synopsis: When Tom Mander and his wife lose their son Billy, Tom worries the strain may be driving her insane when she tells him that she sees and hears things he cannot. When they find a butcher knife soaked with blood in the kitchen and the dog in the cellar with its throat slashed Tom takes his wife in to see a doctor who has Tom committed to an insane asylum when his discussion reveals to the doctor that Tom cannot perceive sights and sounds that actually do occur.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as Madness At Manderville [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published December 1992
as Madness at Manderville [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit based on interview with William Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman in Squa Tront #9, 1983.

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.

In 1973, both Gaines and Kurtzman confirmed to John Benson that Klapper wrote this story. So ? removed from script credit by Craig Delich.
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Reference:

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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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Crypt-Keeper's Corner
First Line: Drag over a casket, kiddies, and place your palpitating body upon it...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Jose A. Benavidez, Phyllis Ankrom, Esther Murshower, and Guy Fulman.
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Mute Witness to Murder!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Another SuspenStory from the Crypt of Terror!
Character(s): Steve; Pam (Steve's wife); Dr. Bask's wife (death); Heanigson (hospital worker); Dr. Bask (villain, death)
First Line: Women are known as the talkative sex,...
Synopsis: A woman sees her neighbor doctor murder his wife and is struck dumb from the shock. Her husband summons the very same doctor and he realizes what she must have witnessed and has her committed to an asylum. He realizes that her voice may return at any time so he schedules her for a brain operation in which he plans to 'accidentally' kill her. Her voice does return and when his heart gives out without his medicine during their struggle, she chooses to let him die rather than summon aid in time.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as Mute Witness to Murder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 published December 1992
as Mute Witness to Murder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1993 published January 1993
as Taust vitne til mord [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.

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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