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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #41
Publication Date: April 1954
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Issues: #41 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: 6 (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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Cover, Front
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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 #25 published September 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #4 published June 2003
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Operation Friendship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Philip (engineer, lives on as a brain only); Jondra (Philip's fiance); Joan; Dr. Andrew Hobart (villain)
Synopsis: A mad surgeon cuts out 75% of his married friend's brain so that he can maintain it in a vat and enjoy the mental stimulation of his company while his dumb wife gets the remaining 25% of his brain and his body and never notices the difference.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1990 published January 1990
as Operasjon vennskap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #25 published September 1998
as Operation Friendship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #12 published April 2004
as Operasjon vennskap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Writer credit per EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat... It's the Humanity" (2013).
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Come Back, Little Linda

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Dr. Morgan Ullman; Eric Hagen
Synopsis: In order to save money, the management of an insane asylum moves the patients into dungeon cells that the hospital was built on. When an inspection notice from the state board arrives, the doctor panics and orders that all the patients return to their wards. Their scheme is undone when one old crazy man refuses to be bullied into silence, crying out to the inspectors that they've taken his beloved 'Linda' away from him. When they follow his headlong dash downstairs, they find that 'Linda' is a rather large dungeon rat.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1994 published January 1994
as Kom tilbake, lille Linda! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #25 published September 1998
as Come Back, Little Linda! [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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Air-Tight

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Current Attraction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A circus father attempts to get the knife thrower out of his daughter's life by placing a bar magnet behind the board the knife thrower's wife stands in front of while he does his act, but the daughter convinces the wife to leave him and she takes her place in the act.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1989 published January 1989
as Dødelig tiltrekning! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #25 published September 1998
as Current Attraction [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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Mess Call

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Corporal Hans Gruber (German soldier); unnamed Oberleutnant (cameo); unnamed doctor; Herr Ludmeyer (death); Gustav Shotz (death); Frau Shotz (death); Herr Heinrich (villain, German butcher, death)
Synopsis: A German soldier, addled by his experiences in the trenches of WWI, is recruited by a butcher in the following war to dispose of patrons in the cellar so that he has plenty of meat to sell. In the end, Corporal Gruber comes to his senses long enough to settle accounts before he is committed to a sanitarium.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1991 published January 1991
as Drømmejobben! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #25 published September 1998
as Mess Call [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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