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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #30
Publication Date: June 1952
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Issues: #30 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: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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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)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published July 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1989 published January 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #14 published December 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #[39] published July 2006
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gas-tly Prospects!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Jeff "Whitey" Whittiker (prospector, death); un-named claim jumper (villain, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Back again, eh?
Synopsis: This story is narrated by a California gold miner who is shot by a claim jumper. He passes out from the pain and when he 'wakes up', he sees the jumper looming over him with a bloody knife and he realizes that he is dead. No matter what the burly man does to Whitey, he can't seem to successfully bury the dead prospector, a fact that later costs the claim jumper his life.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1989 published January 1989
as Vel blåst! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #14 published December 1995
as Gas-tly Prospects! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Cover story.
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A Hollywood Ending!

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: Greetings, gory grave-ghouls!
Synopsis: A movie producer, who flies out to an Eskimo settlement, is surprised to find a beautiful American girl living among them and quickly falls for her. He secretly sneaks her back to the States without her step-father's knowledge to marry her and put her in films. When her step-father cathes up to them, he reveals to the producer a rather horrifying aspect of the girl.
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In Content Item: FlagDe vloek van de volle maan #[nn] published January 1981
as Een Hollywood einde [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1989 published January 1989
as Hjertet som smeltet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #14 published December 1995
as A Hollywood Ending! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Swipe of Cornell Woolrich's "Jane Brown's Body"
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Loosely based on "Cool Air" by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Acid Test!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: If you think I'm going to divorce you, Homer Wormwood, you're insane!
Synopsis: A man wants to kill his wife and puts sulfuric acid in her drink. During an argument, she throws her drink into his face.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Robert Rettie, Eddie Fontana, Robert Jester.
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Auntie, It's Coal Inside!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Toby shook his seven-year-old head angrily!
Synopsis: Young Toby hears a voice inside his head, telling him to do things that his aunt punishes him for. One day he hears a voice from the coal chute in the cellar claiming to be his aunt who has found herself locked in, but Toby doesn't believe it because yesterday the voice sounded like his mother. He ignores the voice, which actually is the aunt, and she is buried by the delivery of four tons of coal.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1994 published January 1994
as Det er svart i kullkjelleren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #14 published December 1995
as Auntie, It's Coal Inside! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
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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Mournin', Ambrose...

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! So I gotta wind up the Crypt-Keeper's mad-mag again, eh?
Synopsis: A man goes to visit his uncle who turns out to be a ghoul.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1993 published January 1993
as Gjestfriheten selv! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #14 published December 1995
as Mournin', Ambrose... [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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