Tales from the Crypt (1950 E.C. Comics) comic books graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $1,980.00 Paper: Off white Label #1243656003

First issue of the series (continues from The Crypt of Terror). Cover by Johnny Craig. "The Thing From the Sea," script and art by Al Feldstein; During a sea voyage a passenger discovers that stateroom 13 has the reputation of being haunted. "A Fatal Caper," script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; Teenagers remove a body from a casket in order to dress as a mystically-summoned monster and place one of their own inside as a prank; the undertaker is unaware of this and buries the body. "Backfire" text story. "Rx...Death," script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; A sister worries that her brother is under too much stress and so asks a doctor to write a prescription for some medicine. "Impending Doom," script by Al Feldstein, art by Johnny Craig; An artist draws a frightened face with a circle around it; Thinking it odd, he goes for a walk encountering a grave-stone cutter who looks like the picture he drew carving a tombstone with his name on it. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $699.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4353072002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($20.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Feldstein. "The Thing From the Grave!", script and art by Al Feldstein; Bill and Jim are rivals for Laura's affection; After Jim proposes and Laura accepts, she worries about Bill's temper; Bill kills Jim and buries his body in the forest and disposes of his car in a sinkhole. "Blood Type 'V'!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; An auto accident forces a man to seek help for his wife who has been knocked unconscious; When he returns with a doctor, the doctor is surprised to see she has suffered few cuts but nonetheless is nearly dead from massive blood loss. "The Way Out" text story. "Death's Turn!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; Two unscrupulous amusement park owners offer a third partnership to a man who claims he has plans for the world's fastest roller coaster. "The Curse of the Arnold Clan!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Johnny Craig; A man finds a an old book in the attic which details a curse that stipulates every 50 years the eldest Arnold will be buried alive. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,350.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4322925006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($40.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Feldstein. "Bats In My Belfry!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; 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. "The Living Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; Two doctors are in love with the same woman; she develops a tumor on her heart; Dr. Manning operates on her, but she dies. "Curse!" text story. "Midnight Snack!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Johnny Craig; Duncan Reynolds is reading horror stories when he gets hungry, and suddenly finds himself in front of a restaurant that is serving up foul-smelling food. "Scared To Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; 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. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $985.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4410546001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($29.55) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Feldstein. "Bats In My Belfry!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; 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. "The Living Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; Two doctors are in love with the same woman; she develops a tumor on her heart; Dr. Manning operates on her, but she dies. "Curse!" text story. "Midnight Snack!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Johnny Craig; Duncan Reynolds is reading horror stories when he gets hungry, and suddenly finds himself in front of a restaurant that is serving up foul-smelling food. "Scared To Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; 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. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $995.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #3861012005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($29.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Feldstein. "Bats In My Belfry!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; 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. "The Living Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; Two doctors are in love with the same woman; she develops a tumor on her heart; Dr. Manning operates on her, but she dies. "Curse!" text story. "Midnight Snack!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Johnny Craig; Duncan Reynolds is reading horror stories when he gets hungry, and suddenly finds himself in front of a restaurant that is serving up foul-smelling food. "Scared To Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; 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. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,375.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4307409002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($41.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Jack Davis. "Survival...or Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; Two men aboard a cargo ship are bored until they get the idea to build a rat trap and ask the Captain to have a barrel built with a platform in the middle of it and a run off down the center. "The Thing In the 'Glades!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Al Williamson; A man's wife dies in childbirth giving him a deformed retarded son with stunted legs, and he becomes a hermit in his cabin in the Glades. "Soft!" text story. "Kamen's Kalamity!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels (draws himself), Johnny Craig (draws himself), and Jack Davis (draws himself); Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein tell this auto-biographical tale of hiring Jack Kamen to draw horror stories, first telling Kamen that his work is too sweet. "Buried Treasure!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); In 1667 Germany a fat Duke lords it over his starving peasants, but when he imposes a tax on the peasants for "dirtying his carriage' with the blood of a young child he rode down in the street, Johann conceives the plot of stealing some of the Duke's jewels in order to pay the tax. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $3,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4234018005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($104.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Jack Davis. "'Taint the Meat...It's the Humanity!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; A butcher during the war gets around rationing points by selling steak to the wealthy customers who will pay cash for it and horsemeat, then stale meat and finally tainted meat to everyone else. "Roped In!", script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; Three business partners in construction make a patsy out of a fourth to take the blame for shoddy construction of a hospital that collapses and kills twenty-one patients. "Curse!" text story. "Cutting Cards!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Fred Peters; Two professional gamblers hate each other so much that they challenge each other to a game of chop poker. "Squash...Anyone?", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); An elephant trainer whose performance entails having the animal raise its foot an inch above his beautiful wife-assistant's face is having an affair with a woman who convinces him to have the elephant crush the wife and have the elephant shot blaming the death on the elephant. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $785.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4200883002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.55) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Jack Davis. EC Artist of the Month article about George Evans (with photo) by Al Feldstein. "Fare Tonight, Followed By Increasing Clottyness...", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; A cab driver has a dream that he is pursued by a Dr. Mueller into a basement filled with vampire-occupied caskets. "Curiosity Killed...", script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; A woman is convinced that her friend down the hall has been murdered by her husband and that he is disposing of her remains bit by bit via carrier pigeon to a local kennel. "Tight Squeeze" text story. "How Green Was My Alley," script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; A bigamist is decapitated by his two athletic wives when they find they've been deceived; The golfer putts with his eyes and the bowler uses his severed head. "The Handler," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); A mortician avenges himself against perceived slights upon the closed-casket victims of his parlor by violating their bodies until a corpse who isn't quite dead yet overhears his gruesome doings and begs the dead to rise from their graves and stop this horrid man. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,299.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4520321020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($38.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by Jack Davis. "Tight Grip!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; This story is narrated by a trunk and concerns the murder of a woman the trunk is fond of; When the murderer attempts to hide in the trunk, he panics and shoots holes through it. "Only Skin Deep!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Reed Crandall; A man marries a woman at Mardi Gras who wears a hag mask. "Big Fish!" text story. "Last Laugh," script by Al Feldstein, art by Will Elder; An obese practical joker with a stomach problem visits a doctor and relates a practical joke involving getting old clothes and bloody butchered chunks of horse flesh to take down to the train yard near where some children regularly play. "Mournin' Mess," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); The Grateful Hoboes, Outcasts, and Unwanteds' Layaways Society is run by a man who read 'Midnight Mess' in Tales from the Crypt #35, and offers a pleasant burial for the penniless. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $550.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4165227001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Jack Davis. "Four-Way Split," script by Otto Binder, art by Jack Davis; An air freight business partner who used to man a bombsite during the war kills his partner by dropping him out of the plane directly where four states meet. "Cold War," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Kamen; Norman King meets and begins wooing a beautiful married girl named Maria; But that doesn't faze Norman one bit, so he decides to kill her husband and marry her anyway. "Inside Story" text story. "Clots My Line," script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; A television show about guessing the guest's occupation brings on a manufacturer of red ink. "Accidents and Old Lace," script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; An art dealer murders a man in order to inspire three old sisters who create beautiful tapestries upon witnessing violent deaths of people. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.