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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #24
Publication Date: June 1951
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Issues: #24 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/13/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Tales From the Crypt
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #24 published July 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #1 published January 1971
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 [unnamed variant] published December 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1994 published January 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #8 published June 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Bats in My Belfry!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Joan Gordon (Harry's wife, death); John Bayne (actor); un-named doctor; Joan's lover (death); Harry Gordon (villain)
First Line: Heh, heh! I see you got up enough nerve to buy Tales from the Crypt again!
Synopsis: An actor loses his hearing, so he goes to visit an unorthodox individual that a friend tipped him off to. This person recommends transplanting the auditory senses of a bat, to which our luckless hero agrees. Not only does he receive super acute hearing, but he starts to gain other characteristics of a bat. Unfortunately, it is only later that he realizes it was actually a vampire bat...
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 [unnamed variant] published December 1991
as Bats in My Belfry! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1994 published January 1994
as Flaggermusa i klokketårnet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #8 published June 1994
as Bats in My Belfry! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #6 published September 2003
as In flagranti! [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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The Living Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Lester Jerome (psychosomatic doctor); Arnold Manning (surgeon); Laurie (death)
First Line: Hmmph! Now that you have been duly bored by the Crypt Keeper's fairy tale...
Synopsis: Two doctors are in love with the same woman, but when she develops a tumor on her heart, and Dr. Manning operates on her.....but she dies. Later, when Dr. Manning suffers from a brain tumor, Dr. Jerome successfully uses psychosomatic medicine on him to save his life. However, a car accident leaves him dead for nearly three months, but also prevents Dr. Manning from decaying by post hypnotic suggestion until he hears the key word "Laurie." When he hears this word, he instantly dissolves into a bag of putrescent slime.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1989 published January 1989
as Levende død! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 [unnamed variant] published December 1991
as The Living Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #8 published June 1994
as The Living Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Swipe from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar".

Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Curse!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): a zombie; un-named jewel thief (villain, death, becomes a zombie)
First Line: He patted the gun-holster at his side...
Synopsis: A thief makes his way through the Haitian jungle to claim a hidden treasure of jewels with a voodoo curse attached to it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 [unnamed variant] published December 1991
as Curse! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #27 published May 1999
as Curse! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This text story has a title header image of two palm trees/jungle and starts "He patted the gun-holster at his side. It is NOT the same as the text story with the same title "Curse!" in Tales From the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #32.
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Midnight Snack!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Duncan Reynolds; unnamed restaurant cook
First Line: Hello again, you little monsters!
Synopsis: Duncan Reynolds is reading horror stories when he gets hungry, and suddenly finds himself in front of a restuarant that is serving up foul-smelling food. He leaves and then finds himself in a cemetery, where he digs up a corpse, wanting to eat it. He passes out, then wakes up with the partially devoured corpse, hears someone coming and runs off with the body. He again finds himself at home, believing all to be a dream.....until he gets hungry and opens his refrigerator!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7 [1988] published January 1988
as Nattmat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 [unnamed variant] published December 1991
as Midnight Snack! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #8 published June 1994
as Midnight Snack! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Scared to Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Frank; Alex Weatherby (Cora's uncle, death); Cora Weatherby Kearns (villain, Ralph's wife); Ralph Kearns (villain, death)
First Line: It was a diabolical plot!
Synopsis: A man weds a woman to secure her uncle's fortune when he dies, but gets tired of waiting so convinces his wife to be an accomplice to her uncle's murder. The guilt eats away at her and he quickly tires of her moroseness, so he hatches another scheme to do away with her and keep the money for himself. But Uncle Alex has other ideas!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 [unnamed variant] published December 1991
as Scared to Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1994 published January 1994
as Skremt til døde [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #8 published June 1994
as Scared to Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Scared to Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

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