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Issue: E.C. Classic Reprint #4
Publication Date: January 1973
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEast Coast Comix
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: East Coast Comix, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ron Barlow; Bruce Hershenson
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Some/all of another Issue reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagHaunt of Fear #12 published March 1952
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Graham Ingels
Graham Ingels
?
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Johnny Craig

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photo)
? (photo)
typeset
Subject Matter
biography, non-fiction
Artist of the Issue
Johnny Craig
Biography of artist Johnny Craig with a B/W photo of him.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
On inside front cover.
Poetic Justice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Graham Ingels
Graham Ingels
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Witch's Cauldron!
The Old Witch (host)
A wealthy man and his son want the property of the well-liked elderly town garbageman and so they instigate a smear campaign to drive him out. First they get a license ordinance passed, and since he can't afford to pay it, the stray dogs and cats he's picked up are carted off to the pound. Then they get the neighborhood's children to stop visiting the old man. St. Valentine's day arrives and the old man is at first delighted to find his mailbox stuffed with cards thinking that the children have not forgotten him after all. Then, sobbing, he reads the poisoned missives one after the other that the wealthy man and his son have distributed amongst the townsfolk. No one sees him for a week so they check his house and find that he has hanged himself. On the following St. Valentine's day his corpse rises from the grave and tears the heart from the son's chest and leaves it as a valentine for the father.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Adapted in the 1972 "Tales From the Crypt" film.
...On a Dead Man's Chest!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
William Gaines (plot); Al Feldstein (plot, script)
Johnny Craig
Johnny Craig
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Vault of Horror!
The Vault-Keeper (host); Steven Anderson (wealthy steamship line owner, death); Helen Anderson (villain, Steven's wife); Larry Anderson (villain, Steven's brother, death)
A man's younger brother begins an affair with his wife, and, after a night on the town, the elder brother gets a tattoo on his chest of himself, his brother, and his wife arm-in-arm. The younger brother and the married woman hatch a plot to murder the husband where it will look accidental, but what they don't realize is that the tattoo will reflect the murder scene to the authorities.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ron Barlow; Bruce Hershenson
typeset
Subject Matter
The Old Witch's Niche
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Letters from Gerald Malis, Harpo Price, and Jack Ziegler.
Till Death Do We Part!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Joe Orlando
Joe Orlando
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Haunt of Fear
The Old Witch (host)
"The Sixth Sense" with a burglar instead of a psychologist.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
What's Cookin'?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
The Crypt of Terror
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Two restaurant owners take on a third partner with ideas to make their roadside diner a success. He convinces them to specialize in chicken and adds broiling and deep fried to their eatery renamed the 'Chicken Coop'. The owners get greedy and decide to murder the newcomer in order not to have to split the profits with him. They tie him up and set his house on fire, he escapes, but is severely burned and makes his way back to his former business partners where he broils one and deep fries the other.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
In This Issue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Davis; Joe Orlando; Johnny Craig; Graham Ingels
Jack Davis; Joe Orlando; Johnny Craig; Graham Ingels
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
On back cover.

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