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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #20
Publication Date: October 1950
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Issues: #20 of 27 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: 06/15/1950
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: 14 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Crypt-Keeper (inset); Theodore J. Warren; Alex Kordova
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published June 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Look for this Seal...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for the first seal for the Comics Code. Includes a list of the titles published by EC at this point.

Includes the indicia at the end of the page.
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The Thing from the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Well... heh, heh... I see it's time for me to tell you another spine-tingling tale...
Synopsis: During a sea voyage a passenger discovers that stateroom 13 has the reputation of being haunted. He discovers that it is indeed haunted by the corpse of someone the captain murdered and it drops into sea after taking revenge upon the captain.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published June 1993
as The Thing From the Sea! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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End of the Search

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: The sun had already gone down behind the heavy jungle growth along both banks of the sluggish steam,...
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published June 1993
as End of the Search [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with a blue color printed ilustration in the middle.
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A Fatal Caper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: There were four of them...
Synopsis: Teenagers remove a body from a casket in order to dress as a mystically-summoned monster and place one of their own inside as a prank, however, the undertaker is unaware of this and buries the body. When they tell him that he must dig it back up, he refuses because the corpse inside died of leprosy. They all look down in horror at their hands and realize they must have contracted it.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published June 1993
as A Fatal Caper! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1994 published January 1994
as Et dødelig brygg! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Science Fiction Fans!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for Weird Science (EC, 1950 series) #14 [3].
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Backfire

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Ever since she insisted on buying the dog, he had hated the big golden animal his wife brought into the house!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This text story is published between two short ads across two pages.

Not reprinted in Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (June 1993).
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for Picture Stories from the Bible.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Ed Szep, A (NMI) Ghost, and The Occupant of Slab 13.
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Rx...Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Janet Bennett; Gregory Bennett (Janet's brother); Dr. Wentworth; unnamed druggist
First Line: Good lord! Don't look at it, Miss Bennett!
Synopsis: A sister worries that her brother is under too much stress and so asks a doctor to write a prescription for some medicine. The doctor does so, but the old-fashioned druggist has only a bottle with the correct label, but after the doctor examines it, he realizes it is not the correct substance. After the contents have been analyzed, the results indicate that for the past several weeks, her brother has been slowly digested alive.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1993 published January 1993
as Rx... Død! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published June 1993
as Rx... Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Impending Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Theodore J. Warren (artist, death); Ellen Kordova (Alex's wife); Alex Kordova (villain, stonecutter)
First Line: In the spring... a young man's fancy... lightly turns to thoughts of...
Synopsis: An artist draws a frightened face with a circle around it. Thinking it odd, he goes for a walk encountering a grave-stone cutter who looks exactly like the picture he drew of the man carving a tombstone with his name on it. The stone-cutter laughs it off, but wants to show his wife the picture. It turns out the artist and the stone-cutter's wife were once romantically involved and she wants to be so again. The stone-cutter catches them together and kills the artist, but is facing the hangman's noose for it.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1991 published January 1991
as Dommedagsvarsel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published June 1993
as Impending Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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"All-Around" He-Man

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Gigantic Nationwide Sale

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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New Silk-Finish Enlargement, Ivory Gold-Tooled Frame

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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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