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Issue: Tales from the Crypt #46
Publication Date: February 1955
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Issues: #46 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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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: 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): Marie Severin ?
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 #30 published December 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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In Memoriam

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Upon Reflection

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); The Old Witch (cameo); The Vault-Keeper (cameo); Chester Wayne; Paul; Matt; Clara Hanson (the Mayor's wife, death); Mayor Elwood Hanson (villain, a werewolf)
Synopsis: The mayor of a small town vows revenge upon a werewolf that kills his wife. On the night of the next full moon, he and his posse encounter a woman they suspect may be the culprit, so he returns to his library to check on the signs of a werewolf in human form. When he enters the darkened room, he sees the werewolf's snarling face looming in front of him, and shoots several times. When the posse enters, are they in for a surprise!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4 [1988] published January 1988
as Ren refleksjon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Upon Reflection [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Blind Alleys

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: The blind victims of an unscrupulous and cruel director lock him and his dog up for several days without food and then release them into a maze with razor blades embedded into the walls. And then turn out the lights.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #U2106 published December 1964
as Blind Alleys [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6 [1988] published January 1988
as Blindveier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Blind Alleys [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFoul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! #[nn] published January 2005
as Blind Alleys [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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Gone To Seed

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Success Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A woman and her parents move in with a man they nag constantly to get ahead in the world because he can't afford their demands for gadgets. Eventually the nagging pushes him over the edge and returns from the kitchen brandishing the meat cleaver. He giggles to the arresting officers "I not only got ahead, I got three heads." as they look over the three severed heads on silver platters in the dining room.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Success Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Tatter Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: A man is murdered by a creature made out of old rags in retaliation for killing the woman who was kind to the rag creature.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #6 published January 1977
as Tatter Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #30 published December 1999
as Tatter Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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