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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #43
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #43 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
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
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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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
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
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 #4 published February 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #27 published March 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Are You a Red Dupe?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lyle Stuart; Bill Gaines
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, opinion
Character(s): Melvin Blizunken
Synopsis: This editorial illustrated page purports that the Communists are the ones trying to destroy the comic magazine industry, citing the Soviet "Daily Worker" newspaper and Dr. Frederick Wertham.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Tongue in cheek editorial parody in an attempt to link efforts to destroy comics to Communists.

Writer credits from Lyle Stuart himself, during an interview by Bill Spicer in Squa Tront (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) #12 (2007); and from Grant Geissman's book, Tales of Terror!: The EC Companion (Fantagraphics, 2000 series), who lists the writer as Bill Gaines; as well as Frank Jacobs' The MAD World of William M. Gaines (Carol Publishing Group, 1973 series) notes that Gaines worked with Stuart on the piece.
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Four-Way Split

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Buck Gordon (pilot in WW2, death); Roy Dixon (villain, bombardier in WW2, death)
Synopsis: 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, knowing he will go free as they squabble over the jurisdiction of the crime. The corpse comes back and gives him a taste of four different execution methods with the last one being final.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Døden i langdrag! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Four-Way Split [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #27 published March 1999
as Four-Way Split [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Writer credit of Otto Binder per EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" (2013).

Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Cold War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Norman King (Maria's lover, death); Maria Holt [Maria Harmon] (Paul's wife); Mr. Harmon (Maria's father); Mrs. Harmon (Maria's mother); Paul Holt (villain, Maria's husband, a zombie)
Synopsis: Norman King meets and begins wooing a beautiful married girl named Maria. But that doesn't phase Norman one bit, so when he decides to kill her husband and marry her anyway, the husband tells Norman a strange but true story about Maria and why he shouldn't be involved with her.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Cold War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #27 published March 1999
as Cold War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Inside Story

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): two unnamed policemen; Fitch (villain, death)
Synopsis: Fitch, a purse thief, is on the run from several policemen after muffing a job, and chances upon some kids playing around and taking turns shutting up people in an old icebox. He figures this is the way to avoid capture, so he makes a deal with one of the kids to pay him $5 for hiding him briefly in the icebox. He tears the bill in half and gives the kid one half and promises him the rest when he reopens the door for him. Unfortunately for Fitch, the police scare the kids off, and..........!
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Inside Story [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Clots My Line

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): George Evans (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Pierce Draynor (guest, death); Anton Chatfield (villain, master of ceremonies, a vampire); Ralph Peters (villain, night watchman, a vampire); Celia Pronick (villain, movie cashier, a vampire); Paul Dunkel (villain, maintenance man, a vampire)
Synopsis: A television show about guessing the guest's occupation brings on a manufacturer of red ink. As the panel asks more questions of the guest, they begin to grow annoyed with the host, as the answers seem to dance around the idea that the guest may be a vampire. The host assures the panel that the man has a legitimate occupation, but they feel the host has double-crossed them. The host is delighted he has stumped the panel and reveals to the guest what he's won, a coffin, which surprises the guest. The panel descend upon him and drain his blood, relieved that he's not one of them.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1991 published January 1991
as Smakfull underholdning [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Clots My Line [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #27 published March 1999
as Clots My Line [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Accidents and Old Lace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Mrs. Janet Carter (rooming house matron); Grace Salsbury (villain, roomer); Emma Lou Salsbury (villain, roomer); Charlotte Salsbury (villain, roomer); Eric Holbien (villain, art dealer, death)
Synopsis: An art dealer murders a man in order to inspire three old sisters who create beautiful tapestries upon witnessing violent deaths of people. When he finds them not working, as they claim to be uninspired, he becomes frustrated with them and admits that he murdered the man before he sent his car smashing into the wall. Angry with him for tricking them, they say murder isn't fair; it has to be an accident, like when they pushed father under the train, and the next man into the path of a car, they dismember the art dealer and weave his body parts into a tapestry.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Accidents and Old Lace [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #27 published March 1999
as Accidents and Old Lace [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

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