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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #28
Publication Date: February 1952
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Issues: #28 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/07/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

The original copyright filing states I. C. Pub. Co., Inc. is the copyright holder.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #12 published June 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Joe Orlando

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): The EC "Artist of the Issue"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: EC Artist of the Month
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Bargain In Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mel (medical college student); Sid (medical college student); George's unnamed landlady; Clem (medical college handyman); Zeke (gravedigger); Hank (gravedigger); Fogerty (Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Company representative); Alex Lawrence (villain, death); George Arkman (villain, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! So you're back for more, eh?
Synopsis: Two medical students need to procure a corpse in order to get an anatomy credit to graduate and pay an imbecile five bucks to dig and grave rob a newly dug grave. The target of their efforts is a man convinced by his 'friend' to take a drug that will emulate the death-like appearance in order to collect a forty thousand dollar insurance policy, not knowing that his friend is going to betray him and abscond with the $40,000!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1989 published January 1989
as Den som graver en grav [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #12 published June 1995
as Bargain in Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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Ants in Her Trance!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
First Line: Heh, heh? Ever been hynotized?
Synopsis: A hypnotist places his wife in a trance and commands her to stop her heart. He brings her out of it with the phrase 'snap out of it'. When he falls for another woman, they decide to murder the wife by using the words 'wake up' instead, which won't bring her out of the trance. After she has been dead and buried for a year he brings his lover to the gravesite for appearances sake. She becomes hysterically overcome with guilt and he uses the phrase 'snap out of it'. They head back toward the cemetery entrance, but the grave erupts open and the corpse of his former wife lurches towards them. She hypnotizes them both and inflicts the same heart failure on them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1994 published January 1994
as Romanse i transe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #12 published June 1995
as Ants in Her Trance! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #22 published February 2005
as Medium rå [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
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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.
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Break Out!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A convict tries to escape from an island prison but is attacked by "a swarming mass of huge land crabs".
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.6
Disclose Notes: Letters from Donald Pachuta, Rick Klewer.
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.4
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A-Corny Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: You'll shudder over thhis one even though you might call it...
Synopsis: An elderly man is fired due to age discrimination and returns to Haiti to work revenge upon his boss. He asks a voodoo practitioner for a tree that will grow in reverse while sympathetically affecting the same change in his former boss, and it works. The trees ends up as an acorn and the boss de-ages all the way past infancy to nothingness.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1990 published January 1990
as Rotløs ungdom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #12 published June 1995
as A-Corny Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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The Ventriloquist's Dummy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Hee, hee! Yep, it's me... the Old Witch...
Synopsis: A man with a homicidal head growing out of his wrist pursues the career path of a ventriloquist.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as The Ventriloquist's Dummy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1991 published January 1991
as Yrkeshemmeligheten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #12 published June 1995
as The Ventriloquist's Dummy! [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.

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