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Issue: Haunt of Fear #10
Publication Date: November 1951
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Issues: #10 of 28 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/04/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (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 Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #10 published December 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #10 published February 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Feldstein's last horror cover.
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Graham Ingels

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): The E.C. "Artist of the Issue"
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Graham Ingels [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Photo and biography.
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Grave Business!

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)
First Line: Hee, hee! Yep!
Synopsis: An undertaker who overcharges for his services becomes paralyzed in an auto accident and buried alive because his partner doesn't bother to embalm him and uses all the tricks he learned while working with the victim to bilk the estate for the funeral costs.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1 [1988] published February 1988
as Dødsbra forretning! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #10 published February 1995
as Grave Business! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: First use of "Ghastly" pen-name by Ingels.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Based on the story "Breakdown" by Louis Pollock.

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 Vamp!

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); Arthur Lang (death); Deena Lang (a vampire, Arthur's wife); Georgette (villain, a vampire)
First Line: Heh, heh! Well, creeping corpses!
Synopsis: A man and wife go on vacation in Europe where he meets a vampire that falls in love with him. Once he learns what she is he rejects her in disgust and she angrily replies that she'll kill him before she lets him go back to his wife, but he knocks her away. When he returns to the hotel room, his wife informs him that she had sought out the vampire and was attacked and turned into one of them and attacks him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6 [1988] published January 1988
as Vampen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #10 published February 1995
as The Vamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Grave Business!,” above).
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Hot Time!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An incompetent employee at a crematorium kills his boss. As he attempts to cremate the body to get rid of the evidence, he accidently locks himself in the oven and gets cremated himself.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Bob Wallace, Louis Kovacs, The Boys in Pine Hill Cemetery.
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My Uncle Ekar!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: The brat insists, "I just want to murder people just like..."
Synopsis: Policeman interview a child who appears to be about six and claims he is really 24 and lives no place while going around all day watching his 'Uncle Ekar' murdering people which is what he wants to do when he grows up. The kid tells the police where they can find Uncle Ekar and he shows, but tries to run off and the police shoot him dead whereupon they realize that the child was not lying and he really did have three eyes and a forked tongue. The kid gets adopted and the police check up on him where the mother tells them that his dog died last night. The last panel depicts the kid winking at the reader with an eye in the middle of his forehead and a forked tongue.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1989 published January 1989
as Onkel Ekar! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #10 published February 1995
as My Uncle Ekar! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Although hosted by The Old Witch, there is no Haunt of Fear feature designation on this story.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Grave Business!,” above).
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Bum Steer!

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); Pedro; Maria Carlo (Manuel's beloved); Arturo Elzar (matador, death); Manuel Rodero (villain, matador, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Greetings, ghouls!
Synopsis: A washed-up matador loses the favor of his lady to a young new-comer, so he buys a half-blind bull and torments it with a whip while teaching it to charge the smell of the perfumed handkerchief that he knows his lady will toss to the young matador to tuck into his belt. The bull gores the young matador and is then killed in turn. Later that evening the corpses of both the young matador and the bull take their revenge on the schemer as the matador holds him for the bull to gore.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1992 published January 1992
as En søt duft av hevn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #10 published February 1995
as Bum Steer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Cover story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Grave Business!,” above).

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