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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published December 1950 - January 1951
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing William M. Gaines

Cover Details

Genre Horror
Pencils Al Feldstein
Inks Al Feldstein
Reprinted In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993)

8 page story "A Shocking Way To Die"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A scientist revives a man sent to the electric chair who then pursues revenge against the jury and judge that convicted him.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Al Feldstein
Inks Al Feldstein
Reprinted In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993)

7 page story "Terror Ride"

Synopsis A lunatic owner of a 'tunnel of love' ride replaces the wax figures in his lurid displays of violence with the more realistic-looking bodies of his victims so his customers will no longer laugh at the exhibits of his genius.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Wally Wood (signed Woody)
Inks Wally Wood (signed Woody)
Letters ? Roberts
Reprinted In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993)

1 page text story "Burial"

Genre Horror
Letters typeset
Notes NOT reprinted in Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993).

6 page story "House of Horror"

Synopsis Three college freshmen disappear one night as part of a frat hazing at a local haunted house.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Harvey Kurtzman
Inks Harvey Kurtzman
Reprinted From Haunt of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #15 (May/June 1950).

7 page story "Death Suited Him"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis The rivalry between two college boys for the love a woman ends when the poorer of the two murders the other, making it look like an accident, to gain his wife and money. To top off his victory he decides to steal the tuxedo for the wedding the victim was wearing when buried, because he is convinced if he were not too poor to afford a tuxedo in college, he could have been her first choice in marriage. She agrees to the wedding, but on the blessed day, he dies from embalming fluid poisoning contracted from the suit.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Reprinted In Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993)