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Issue: The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #1
Publication Date: May 2001
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
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Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Books
On Sale Date: 05/05/2021
Volume: 1
Pages: 220
ISBN: 15067211179781506721118
UPC/EAN: 978150672111851999
Price: $25.99 CAD
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Content Items: 55 (32 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 8 3/16 in. x 10 15/16 in.
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Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Tales from the Crypt
Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (inset); The Vault Keeper (inset); the Old Witch (inset); William Ferth
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Introduction

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First Line: Pulp up a coffin and rest your aching bones!
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Albert Smedly, Earl Overstreet, and Janis Flowers.

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Death Must Come!

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (host); Frederick Caston; Henry
First Line: Well... we meet again, dear reader!
Synopsis: A transferred gland preserves youth.
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The Man Who Was Death

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): Edgar Bowman; George Flood; Betty Bates; Casper Jones; Arthur Boway
First Line: Out of the dark night he walked,...
Synopsis: A state executioner takes the law into his own hands.
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Alibi... On Ice!

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First Line: State Trooper Mark Holliday looked down at the body stretched in the snow at his feet.
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The Corpse Nobody Knew

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Character(s): Jack Walker; Minnie Walker; Paul Winslow (corpse); Bill Riker; Captain Hall
First Line: Private Detective Jack Walker decides to escape from the turmoil from his office and home...
Synopsis: A couple find a body in their hotel room and play detective.
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Tell-Tale Marks!

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First Line: Mister Corning picked up the telephone and called the Police station.
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Curse of the Full Moon!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): Ralph (death); George (villain, a werewolf)
First Line: In the dense forests of Eastern Europe, there grows a wild plant called Wolfsbane.
Synopsis: Ralph thinks he's become a werewolf after being scratched by the Wolfsbane plant and after people in town are horribly murdered, that belief nearly drives him crazy.
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Living Corpse!

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SuspenStory Fans!

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The Maestro's Hand!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (host); Dr. Emanuel Hellman; Virginia Caddy; Maestro Borrstein
First Line: So, we meet again, dear reader!
Synopsis: Dr. Hellman arrives at a cabin in the woods to forget the suicide of his ex-fiancee after he unnecessarily removed the injured piano hand of her lover and he killed himself. When he opens the package he finds upon his doorstep, the detached hand lunges for his throat. When police arrive later, they find the doctor dead from self-strangulation.
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The Living Corpse

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): Jed Bryant (morgue attendant, death); Tim (morgue worker); Desiree (Satanus' assistant, death); Satanus (villain, magician, death)
First Line: On fog-shrouded nights, in the loneliest of places, strange horrors walk...
Synopsis: A magician strikes his assistant while wearing a snake ring and then attempts to locate where her body was taken by playing dead himself as to remove the snake imprint evidence. He assaults the morgue attendant but is locked into the freezer while the attendant suffers a heart attack and is thus doomed to freeze to death.
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Portrait of Life... and Death!

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First Line: Rollini touched his paint-brush to the palette...
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Madness at Manderville

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): Tom Mander; Marion Mander; Rusty (a dog, death); Dr. Brenner; Dr. Holbrook
First Line: Those lights Mrs. Mander thought she saw flickering in the night...
Synopsis: When Tom Mander and his wife lose their son Billy, Tom worries the strain may be driving her insane when she tells him that she sees and hears things he cannot. When they find a butcher knife soaked with blood in the kitchen and the dog in the cellar with its throat slashed Tom takes his wife in to see a doctor who has Tom committed to an insane asylum when his discussion reveals to the doctor that Tom cannot perceive sights and sounds that actually do occur.
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First Line: Drag over a casket, kiddies, and place your palpitating body upon it...
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Jose A. Benavidez, Phyllis Ankrom, Esther Murshower, and Guy Fulman.
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Mute Witness to Murder!

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): Steve; Pam (Steve's wife); Dr. Bask's wife (death); Heanigson (hospital worker); Dr. Bask (villain, death)
First Line: Women are known as the talkative sex,...
Synopsis: A woman sees her neighbor doctor murder his wife and is struck dumb from the shock. Her husband summons the very same doctor and he realizes what she must have witnessed and has her committed to an asylum. He realizes that her voice may return at any time so he schedules her for a brain operation in which he plans to 'accidentally' kill her. Her voice does return and when his heart gives out without his medicine during their struggle, she chooses to let him die rather than summon aid in time.
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Disclose Notes: Ad for the first seal for the Comics Code. Includes a list of the titles published by EC at this point.

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Ghost Ship!

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Don; Carol; Captain Henry Dragoon (flashback); Charles Grogins (flashaback); John Bates (flashaback)
First Line: So... we meet again, dear render!
Synopsis: A man and his wife are flying in a small plane when a thick fog arises and they are forced to put down at sea. Using a lifeboat for a couple of days they come across a rotted ship. Reading the ship's log they learn the mutinous crew died one by one after being cursed by the captain they forced to walk the plank. The man sees a ship heading towards them and are afraid they are going to be rammed, but the ship passes right through where they are standing! They get in their lifeboat and are rescued but the captain does not believe their strange tale of the ghost ship.
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The Hungry Grave

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Character(s): Ed Greene; Ida Greene (villain, Ed's wife, death); Jim Kelleber (villain, Ida's lover, death)
First Line: Quick, Jim! Get that body out of there!
Synopsis: A woman hates her husband so she gives him small doses of arsenic trying to work up her nerve to finish him off, but all she succeeds in doing is allowing him to develop a tolerance to the stuff. When he overhears her plot to leave him in a sack for her lover to bury in a dug-up grave, he poisons her instead and puts her in the sack so that the lover buries her not quite dead. Then, he kills the lover with an ax.
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First Line: Greetings, once again, my very good fiends!
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Cave Man

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Character(s): Homer Perry (assistant curator, death); Mr. Yardley (institute director); Professor Greer (anthropologist); the caveman
First Line: We find Homer Perry in his private workshop in the Jonsonian Institute,...
Synopsis: Homer is notified that a famed anthropologist has made the astounding discovery of a perfect specimen of a Neanderthal Man, and his boss wants Homer to stop work on his exhibit and create a special exhibit for the caveman immediately. However, Homer feels he will lose all fame and honor for what he had accomplished on his own exhibit, so he decides to get rid of the caveman by placing him in the sunlight in order for the specimen to begin to decompose. However, the caveman comes to life and goes crazy, killing Homer, then takes his place back in his own exhibit.
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Incident on the Cliff

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First Line: Hammer crept along the incline on his hands and knees.
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Zombie!

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Character(s): Mr. King (plantation guest, photographer); Mr. Richards (plantation owner); Jason Morgan (former owner of Richard's plantation, death); Marie Morgan (Jason's wife, death, resurrected as a zombie, death)
First Line: When Daniel King arrived in Haiti,...
Synopsis: A former plantation owner with a young wife hates the kindness she shows to the natives. He bursts into one of their voodoo dance rituals and shoots her dead for partaking. The natives turn her into a zombie and send her after him for revenge. Firing useless bullets, he flees into the jungle where he falls into a bog of quicksand and she joins him in eternity.
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Feature(s): Tales from the Crypt
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The Thing from the Sea

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Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: During a sea voyage a passenger discovers that stateroom 13 has the reputation of being haunted. He discovers that it is indeed haunted by the corpse of someone the captain murdered and it drops into sea after taking revenge upon the captain.
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End of the Search

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First Line: The sun had already gone down behind the heavy jungle growth along both banks of the sluggish steam,...
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A Fatal Caper

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Synopsis: Teenagers remove a body from a casket in order to dress as a mystically-summoned monster and place one of their own inside as a prank, however, the undertaker is unaware of this and buries the body. When they tell him that he must dig it back up, he refuses because the corpse inside died of leprosy. They all look down in horror at their hands and realize they must have contracted it.
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Science Fiction Fans!

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Backfire

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First Line: Ever since she insisted on buying the dog, he had hated the big golden animal his wife brought into the house!
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Rx...Death

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Character(s): Janet Bennett; Gregory Bennett (Janet's brother); Dr. Wentworth; unnamed druggist
Synopsis: A sister worries that her brother is under too much stress and so asks a doctor to write a prescription for some medicine. The doctor does so, but the old-fashioned druggist has only a bottle with the correct label, but after the doctor examines it, he realizes it is not the correct substance. After the contents have been analyzed, the results indicate that for the past several weeks, her brother has been slowly digested alive.
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Impending Doom!

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Character(s): Theodore J. Warren (artist, death); Ellen Kordova (Alex's wife); Alex Kordova (villain, stonecutter)
Synopsis: An artist draws a frightened face with a circle around it. Thinking it odd, he goes for a walk encountering a grave-stone cutter who looks exactly like the picture he drew of the man carving a tombstone with his name on it. The stone-cutter laughs it off, but wants to show his wife the picture. It turns out the artist and the stone-cutter's wife were once romantically involved and she wants to be so again. The stone-cutter catches them together and kills the artist, but is facing the hangman's noose for it.
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Feature(s): Tales from the Crypt
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A Shocking Way to Die

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Synopsis: A scientist revives a man sent to the electric chair who then pursues revenge against the jury and judge that convicted him.
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Terror Ride!

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Character(s): George; Ruth; amusement park owner (villain, death)
Synopsis: A lunatic owner of a 'tunnel of love' ride replaces the wax figures in his lurid displays of violence with the more realistic-looking bodies of his victims so his customers will no longer laugh at the exhibits of his genius.
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Burial

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House of Horror

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Synopsis: Three college freshmen disappear one night as part of a frat hazing at a local haunted house.
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Death Suited Him

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Character(s): The Old Witch (host); John Baxter (death); Nancy Anderson (John's wife); Miss Glass (John's secretary); Lawrence Cabot (villain, death)
Synopsis: The rivalry between two college boys for the love a woman ends when the poorer of the two murders the other, making it look like an accident, to gain his wife and money. To top off his victory he decides to steal the tuxedo for the wedding that the victim was wearing when buried, because he is convinced if he were not too poor to afford a tuxedo in college, he could have been her first choice in marriage. She agrees to the wedding, but on the blessed day, he dies from embalming fluid poisoning contracted from the suit.
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Gaines based the idea of the Old Witch on pulp writer Alonzo Deen Cole's "Witch's Tale" radio program of the 1930's.
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Feature(s): Tales from the Crypt
Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (inset); The Vault Keeper (inset); the Old Witch (inset); William Ferth
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The Thing from the Grave!

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Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); James Barry (death); Laura Mason (Jame's wife); William (Bill) Ferth (villain, death)
Synopsis: Bill and Jim are rivals for Laura's affection. After Jim proposes and Laura accepts, she worries about Bill's temper. Bill kills Jim and buries his body in the forest and disposes of his car in a sinkhole, then tries to convince Laura that Jim has deserted her, but she refuses to believe it. Bill gets frustrated, admits to murdering Jim and tells Laura that he'll have to kill her too, taking her to a cabin and setting it afire. She screams, awakens Bill's corpse, who then rises from his grave, saves Laura, and takes care of Bill.....once and for all!
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Disclose Notes: Adapted from text story in The Haunt Of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #15 (May/June 1950).
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Blood Type 'V'!

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Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Freddie Duncan (reporter for the Evening Sun, death); Jean Duncan (Freddie's co-worker, death); Doctor Bensen (death); un-named hobo tramp (death); un-named blood donor (villain, a vampire)
Synopsis: An auto accident forces a man to seek help for his wife who has been knocked unconscious. When he returns with a doctor, the doctor is surprised to see she has suffered few cuts but nonetheless is nearly dead from massive blood loss. Neither man is the correct blood type to give a transfusion, but a passing stranger with the correct type offers to do so. The woman recovers and disappears after which a spate of vampire attacks occur. Freddie suspects the "donor" to be a vampire and confronts and kills a vampire that turns out to be Jean, then is killed by the true vampire.
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The Way Out

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Death's Turn!

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Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Robert Bixby (construction engineer, new amusement park owner, death); Kane (villain, amusement park owner, death); Crossen (villain, amusement park owner, death)
Synopsis: Two unscrupulous amusement park owners offer a third partnership to a man who claims he has plans for the world's fastest roller coaster. After it's built, they grouse about having to cut him in on the profits, so they shove him in front of the car during a final test and hush the whole thing up as an "unfortunate accident". On opening day, before packed crowds, they get into the car for the first ride, only to be found dead as the car comes to a stop, their necks broken.
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The Curse of the Arnold Clan!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Robert Arnold; Bess Arnold (Robert's wife); Jeremiah Arnold (George and Jason's father, flashback, death); George Arnold (Robert's brother, flashback, death); Jason Arnold (Robert's brother, flashback, death); William Arnold (Robert's brother, flashback, death); un-named cemetery caretaker
Synopsis: A man finds a an old book in the attic which details a curse that stipulates every 50 years the eldest Arnold will be buried alive. He doesn't believe it, but when he attends a costume ball that entails a scavenger hunt, he is tasked with retrieving a musket. He then realizes that one is interred within a coffin in the family crypt, so he attempts to sneak in to avoid the caretaker, but then sees him coming and hides in the casket. The lid locks tight and the curse of the Arnold Clan is fulfilled once again.
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