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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #32
Publication Date: October 1952
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Issues: #32 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
Disclose Notes: Copy seen with a date stamp of "Aug 25 P.M."
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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
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images3
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Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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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 Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #32 published December 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #16 published June 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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'Taint the Meat...It's the Humanity!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mrs. Vinkle; Mr. Fuddy; Mrs. Dickleborg; Mr. Snerd (death); Mr. Grundy (death); Mrs. Snerd (death); Mrs. Abacrombie (death); Mrs. Gabber; Mr. Vandercliff; Sarah Gristle (Zach's wife); Junior (Zack's son, death); Pete (Sheriff); Zack Gristle (villain, butcher, death)
Synopsis: 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. When Junior, his son, dies from the tainted meat, his wife seizes a carving knife and advances upon her husband, cutting him neatly into serving portions, and putting him on display in his butcher shop's display case.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as 'Taint the Meat...It's the Humanity [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Det er ikke så meget kødet. Det er pengene [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2 [1988] published January 1988
as Kjøtt er kjøtt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1992
as 'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #16 published June 1996
as "'Tain't the Meat... It's the Humanity!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Roped In!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): George Evans (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans (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); un-named Policeman; Miss Ballentine (secretary); Donald Morgan (construction company co-owner); Ellis (villain, construction company co-owner, death); Buckley (villain, construction company co-owner, death); Wagner (villain, construction company co-owner, death?)
Synopsis: 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. They take a flight in a small plane out in South America and, when trying to fly through a gap between two mountains at night, become snagged by cables. When the dawn arrives, they realize that their plane has become stuck in a giant spider's web.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1992
as Roped In! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1994 published January 1994
as Et nett av løgner! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #16 published June 1996
as Roped In! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Curse!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marie Severin ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): Marie Severin ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): uin-named native guide (death); Ramsey (villain, death)
Synopsis: Ramsey, while searching an island for a half-million treasure, intended as a sacrifice to primitive gods, and sealed up in a mountain, kills his native guide, ignores a curse carved into the stone on the mountain, and plants dynamite charges in it to uncover the treasure. Unfortunately for Ramsey, the mountain was volcanic........and the explosion activated it!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1992
as Curse! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #16 published June 1996
as Curse! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This text story has a title header image of precious gems and starts "Ramsey squeezed the trigger...".

This is NOT the same as the text story with the same title, "Curse!", found in Tales From the Crypt (EC, 1950 series) #24.
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Cutting Cards!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Fred Peters (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Peters (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Gus Forney (gambler); Lou Crebis (gambler); two un-named doctors
Synopsis: Two professional gamblers hate each other so much that they challenge each other to a game of chop poker. Chop poker is like strip poker, although, instead of removing an article of clothing, they use a meat cleaver to remove a digit or limb. They have their personal doctors act as seconds during their bizarre duel to the finish, but the gamblers find themselves unable to proceed when they've both hacked each others arms and legs off.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1989 published January 1989
as Edel kappestrid! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1992
as Cutting Cards! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #16 published June 1996
as Cutting Cards! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Squash...Anyone?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. 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); Emma (circus elephant, death); Bessie (circus elephant); Rene (Milo's wife and assistant, death); Milo (villain, elephant trainer, death); Leeta (villain, Milo's lover, death)
Synopsis: 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. He does so, and marries the lover and trains a new elephant. A year later they return to the same town where the murder was conducted and the dead woman and beast rise from the grave to seek their revenge.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Overtramp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #5 published March 1992
as Squash...Anyone? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #16 published June 1996
as Squash... Anyone? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

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