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

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    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.

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    Cover by Al Feldstein. "A Shocking Way To Die," script and art by Al Feldstein; A scientist revives a man sent to the electric chair who then pursues revenge against the jury and judge that convicted him. "Terror Ride!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; 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. "Burial" text story. "House of Horror," script by Al Feldstein, art by Harvey Kurtzman; Three college freshmen disappear one night as part of a frat hazing at a local haunted house. "Death Suited Him," script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; 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. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover by Al Feldstein. "Reflection of Death!", script and art by Al Feldstein; Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash; Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. "Last Respects!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; Tony loves and secretly marries Anna, a wealthy, but underage girl; When her Uncle discovers this, he threatens to annul the marriage, which drives Anna to her sickbed. "Precautions" text story. "Seance!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; Alan Bitsby sets out to prove that a medium is faking by asking him to raise the spirit of his 'departed' wife. "Voodoo Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Johnny Craig; Jay and Bill witness a forbidden voodoo ceremony; Jay is captured and later meets up with Bill and they leave Haiti. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover by Al Feldstein. "Reflection of Death!", script and art by Al Feldstein; Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash; Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. "Last Respects!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; Tony loves and secretly marries Anna, a wealthy, but underage girl; When her Uncle discovers this, he threatens to annul the marriage, which drives Anna to her sickbed. "Precautions" text story. "Seance!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; Alan Bitsby sets out to prove that a medium is faking by asking him to raise the spirit of his 'departed' wife. "Voodoo Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Johnny Craig; Jay and Bill witness a forbidden voodoo ceremony; Jay is captured and later meets up with Bill and they leave Haiti. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover by Wally Wood. "Well-Cooked Hams!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; Two American producers want to bring Parisian-style, Grand Guignol, gory plays to a Broadway theater, but the owner refuses to do business with them. "Madame Bluebeard," script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; A woman raises her daughter to hate men and so for six years she murders a husband a year, making each appear an accidental death, as trophies for her departed mother. "Nature" text story. "Return!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; A woman ends up getting pregnant by her husband's ghost! "Horror! Head... It Off!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; A member of the French nobility during the Terror betrays his fellow's confidence in order to curry favor with the revolutionary government. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover by Al Feldstein. EC Artist of the Month article by Al Feldstein about Joe Orlando. "Bargain In Death!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; Two medical students need to procure a corpse in order to get an anatomy credit to graduate and pay an imbecile five bucks to grave rob a newly dug grave. "Ants In Her Trance!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; 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. Break Out! text story. "A-Corny Story," script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; An elderly man is fired due to age discrimination and returns to Haiti to work revenge upon his boss. "The Ventriloquist's Dummy!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; A man with a homicidal head growing out of his wrist pursues the career path of a ventriloquist. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Cover by Jack Davis. "Forever Ambergris," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Davis; A sea captain murders a man for his wife by having him row out to a plague island where he contracts the disease. "Burial At Sea," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; A man kills an old man for 30 thirty gold coins and thinks that there must be more to the treasure when he finds a treasure map locating a spot just offshore under water. "Gunman" text story. "The Proposal," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Kamen; A woman who uses men to stay surrounded by the finer things in life finally hears what she wants to hear "I want you for my wife." "The Sliceman Cometh," script by Carl Wessler, art by Graham Ingels; An executioner during the Terror, who takes money from a relative in order to guillotine his brother, finds he has a difficult time in getting rid of the head. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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