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Issue: Haunt of Fear #3
Publication Date: January 1985
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Issues: #3 of 5 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Volume: 3
Pages: 212
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Content Items: 50 (30 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Russ Cochran
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; mostly black & white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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[untitled]

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Credits
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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The E.C. Artist of the Issue - Al Feldstein

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein ? [as Bill Gaines]
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
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Poetic Justice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: 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.
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...On a Dead Man's Chest!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Gaines (plot); Al Feldstein (plot, script)
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig
Inker(s): Johnny Craig
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Steven Anderson (wealthy steamship line owner, death); Helen Anderson (villain, Steven's wife); Larry Anderson (villain, Steven's brother, death)
Synopsis: 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.
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Brat

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Letters page

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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Till Death Do We Part!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando
Inker(s): Joe Orlando
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: "The Sixth Sense" with a burglar instead of a psychologist.
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Pages: 6
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What's Cookin'?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: 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.
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Notes and Comments

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Benson; Bill Mason; Bhob Stewart
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): John Benson
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Pages: 5
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Pages: 1
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For the Love of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: A man envious of the accolades showered upon the dead at their funerals resolves to slay the town's richest man so he can substitute for the corpse and enjoy the pomp and circumstance. He uses a knife to disfigure the victim so that a closed casket request will be made and then he takes his place in the coffin. Unfortunately for him, the deceased's final instructions entailed cremation.
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Fed Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (plot); Al Feldstein (plot, script)
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Alex (death); The Great Galago (sword swallower); Sandra (villain, sword swallower, Alec's wife)
Synopsis: A sword-swallower marries a man who becomes obese over time by spending all the money she earns with her act on food. She gets revenge by encouraging him to learn the act and when he's got the blade down his throat, she binds his hands in the dressing room and leaves him to the inevitable gas his gluttony has made him liable to.
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Witness

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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Minor Error!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen
Inker(s): Jack Kamen
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: The neighborhood boys are curious that the new kid on the block never comes out to play. They suspect Ezra's uncle is a vampire so they follow him one night and observe him kill someone and drain their blood into the jug he keeps in the carton. Now that they know he is the vampire they figure he doesn't let Ezra come out for fear of speaking to the authorities. The children resolve to stake the vampire through the heart the next day, which they do, only to discover Ezra sleeping peacefully in a coffin in the cellar with the drained jar of blood next to him.
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Wolf Bait!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: Travelers in a sleigh on the Russian steppes find themselves beset by wolves. The officer in the sleigh has a rifle with two bullets left that kills two wolves buying them some time to get closer to the town. The driver realizes they aren't going to make it, and proposes that one of them, the officer, a woman and her new baby, or the old man sacrifice themselves in order to save the others. One of them is hurled into the pack of slavering beasts but the story leaves it up to the reader to decide who.
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Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset) The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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A Little Stranger!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)(origin); Peter; Victor; Elicia (villain, a vampire, death); Zorgo (villain, a werewolf, death)
Synopsis: A female vampire and a male werewolf fall in love and take to hunting the hill country together, seeing each other once a month when the moon affects his transformation. They hope to find someone who can marry them. He protects her coffin during the day by moving it, but one day the villagers catch up to them, and put a silver bullet into his heart and a stake through her's and bury them in the devil's graveyard. That night, the graves erupt as they arise from their graves, are married, with a mausoleum as their honeymoon suite. Almost a year later, Elicia gives birth to the Old Witch.
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Disclose Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Last page is splash.
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Take Your Pick!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen
Inker(s): Jack Kamen
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A woman with a miser for a husband loses her marbles after enduring countless acts of 'ice-heartedness' and takes an ice-pick to his chest.
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Bee-Nip!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Letters page

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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Ship-Shape!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Sid Check
Inker(s): Sid Check
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: Four occupants of a small plane find they need to ditch in the ocean. They inflate a life raft and come upon a derelict drifting at sea. The ship is completely covered with a strange fungus and one of them makes the mistake of trying to sample it with a pocket knife. Upon tearing the membrane a digestive-like fluid spills over him, dissolving him alive. Two of them make it back to the life raft, and are spotted by a search plane, unfortunately the raft is now infected with the fungus as it was moored to the derelict.
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This Little Piggy...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A British officer visits his uncle in India during the occupation. His uncle warns him off hunting the wild boars in the area which are sacred to the natives. He disregards him and kills a boar, then prepares it by boiling the hair off, roasting it upon a spit, and finally serving it on a plate with an apple in its mouth. A native servant present during the dinner witnesses this and is horrified. The uncle apologizes to the native head, but word gets out, and though the officer is to leave the area tomorrow, the natives get hold of him and give him the same treatment.
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Chatter-Boxed!

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)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Jacob Filbert (death); Eileen Filbert (Jacob's wife)
Synopsis: A man subject to cataleptic fits worries that he may be buried alive during one of them so he instructs his undertaker to perform no embalming and has a telephone installed in the coffin. He gets into an car accident while having a fit and it is assumed he was killed him. When he revives in the rapidly oxygen-depleting coffin, he first tries to phone his wife, then his brother, and finally his doctor, all without success. Finally, he tries to dial the operator, but unfortunately for him, it is December 7, 1941, and all circuits are busy!
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Disclose Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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All Washed Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A man doesn't have the money to marry his girl, so he kills his wealthier rival and dumps his body down an old well. While he is doing so, he accidentally drops the diamond ring he stole from the victim down the well. He returns for the ring only to have the corpse clamp its teeth into his ankle when he attempts to climb back up out of the well and drag him back down under the surface.
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Pages: 7
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The Patient Stake

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Letters page

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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Marriage Vows!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen
Inker(s): Jack Kamen
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: In this grim fairy tale, evil king Blackheart gets princess Buttercup's hand in marriage. Literally.
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Pages: 6
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Death of Some Salesmen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A salesman has the bad luck to break down outside the home of a deranged old couple who cover him with a shotgun as they show him their refrigerator, stove, vacuum cleaner, grandfather clock, and television set that they made sure worked by testing it out on the body of each device's respective salesman. The man asks him "What do you sell?" and he replies "It's out in the car" while the old woman covers him with the shotgun. The old man goes to get it and he tells the woman "You don't want what I sell" and offers to pay anything to be released but she just waits for her husband to return with the device, a handy-dandy meat cutter...
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Will Elder (signed)
Inker(s): Will Elder (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Heehee! The second issue of Mad is out!
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Mad #2.
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Nobody There!

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)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Louise (Eric's girl); Brenda Mondrum (Eric's wife); Eric Mondrum (villain, surgeon); Alan Thorky (villain, death)
Synopsis: A man blackmails a doctor into transplanting his head onto another man's body, at first to avoid deformity and eventually to achieve immortality. By the time of the fourth operation the doctor is old enough not to be concerned about the possibility of blackmail, and wracked by guilt of the three killings over the years, leaves the separated head to die on the surgical table.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Much of the story told in flashback.
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A Creep in the Deep!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): George Evans (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans (signed)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A man's wife is a attacked by a vampire while she is out in a rowboat in the middle of a lake and he is spear fishing. When he later returns to the lake, he hears of strange killings where the victims have been drained of blood and realizes that his wife must have been turned into one of the undead and now resides in the lake. He sharpens his spear and returns to the lake to stake her through the heart and bring her peace.
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E.C Fans!

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein (signed)
Inker(s): Al Feldstein (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad for Weird Fantasy #16 on left 1/2 of page.
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Dukes in Disguise

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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[untitled]

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Penciller(s): Various
Inker(s): Various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad for Picture Stories from the Bible Complete Old Testament, Complete New Testament, Picture Stories from Science #2, Picture Stories from World History #2.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text about Ray Bradbury stories plus letters from Stan Grossman, Jeanne Anderson, Fred Smith, George Riley, Gerard Robbins, John M. Grath and The Gyro Shop Gang.
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...From Hunger!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: The chef of an obese king finally gets fed up with him and converts him into sausages.
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The Coffin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A man builds an automatic coffin to lower the cost of funerals. The coffin plays music, reads a service, and unfortunately for his sponging kid brother who lies down in it, drains the corpse's blood, injects formaldehyde, and buries itself with shovel attachments on its side.
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Disclose Notes: E.C.'s first authorized Ray Bradbury adaptation "Copyright, 1947, by Popular Publications Inc."
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Credits
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Horror We? How's Bayou?

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)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Dr. Max Forman (death); unnamed woman (death, in flashback); Anthony Jackson (salesman, death, in flashback); Everett (villain); Sidney (villain, Everett's brother)
Synopsis: A man in the Louisiana swamp diverts traffic from the road to his mansion in order to satisfy the cravings of his demented homicidal brother for victims to dismember. One night, after the latest victim, a doctor, has been dispatched, three corpses composed of mismatched pieces rise from the quicksand pool and dismember the man and reattach his body parts in incorrect order.
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Disclose Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Part of the story is told in flashback.
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Gorilla My Dreams!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): George Evans (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A brain surgeon transfers the brain of his victim into the body of a gorilla taken from a carnival. At first, he thinks of writing a message for his wife and children about what has happened to him, but after eluding the police in the dark, he realizes that, with the surgeon dead of a heart attack, the world no longer has a place for him other than the carnival cage.
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Pages: 7
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Hiding Place

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Letters page

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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A Likely Story!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: In this grim fairy tale a cranky old queen constantly badgers the castle's seamstress, decorator and artist into painting a portrait of her to hang on a bare wall spot. The artist finally gets fed up with her and severs her head with an ax, the seamstress sews it to the canvas, and the decorator has it framed to fit upon the wall.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Garden Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A man has a barbecue in his garden-obsessed wife's back yard where the guests ruin the flowers. She snaps and advances on her husband with the carving knife to serve him upon the barbecue.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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Credits
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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