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Two-Timed

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!

Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset)

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Den store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Vault of Horror #25 published October 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Pages: 1

Notes: The cover title was taken from the last story in the issue from which the cover was based.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Panic

Synopsis: Ad, w/coupon, for Panic Comics.

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Pages: 1

Twin Bill!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (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); Larry Bannister

Synopsis: Larry stood there in the dark, sweating profusely, waiting for them to come: his wife and her lover. He remembered the night he caught them in each other's arms....how he made them take shovels and forced them to dig a grave, made them get in and how he covered them over with the dirt....alive! Then how he returned to the lodge and tried to make a get-away in the car....but the battery was dead. So he took the car of his wife's lover and headed to town to get a new battery, but couldn't get one. How he later drove lover boy's car to the other side of town and how he reported his wife's "disappearance" to the Police. Yet, two weeks later....no one had found that car or them. So he drove back to the lodge where his car still sat....then he remembered that his wife had a spare set of keys in her purse, so he headed back to the grave to dig up the bodies so he could get the purse.....but the grave was empty! As he headed back for the lodge, he saw two figures following him, so he ran to the lodge as fast as he could.....and lay in wait, believing them NOT to have died in that grave. Now he heard someone enter the room and as he snapped on the flashlight, he saw two rotting corpses coming at him, and he fired at them....the last thing he ever did!

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Iskalde Grøss #6/1991 published January 1991
as Den som graver en grav [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Vault of Horror #25 published October 1998
as Twin Bill! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 8

Witch Witch's Witch!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

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); Eric Holbein; Helena

Synopsis: Eric was coming home to Blumstedt with his new wife.....who was not the girl to whom he had been betrothed since childhood. As he entered the house, he was met by his former betroth, Alicia, her Mom and his Mom, all of whom harshly berated him for bringing shame to them all. Eric's mother soon passed away, but Helena wouldn't go to the funeral. Days later, the ladies from the local church saw Helena and told her not to attend their meetings....and the leader of that group soon died. Talk began to surface saying Helena was a witch, and they thought it true when Helena walked down the street and a woman, Alicia's mother, fell dead. A mob formed and went after Helena, and, when Eric tried to intervene, they killed him and began stoning Helena to death, when she stood and chanted a few words and all the people turned to rats and scurried away. In the midst of it all was the most ugly and hideous creature of them all: Helena....the witch!

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Iskalde Grøss #6/1990 published January 1990
as Heksejakten! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Vault of Horror #25 published October 1998
as Witch Witch's Witch! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Cooler

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (spot illo)

Inker(s): ? (spot illo)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Scott

Synopsis: Scott ran breathlessly after his escape from Cragmore Prison, supposedly escape proof. Yes, there was snow on the ground and it was quite cold, but this was the only time of year that the lake that entirely surrounded the prison was frozen. Then he heard the alarm from the prison and knew that he'd be spotted.....unless.....unless he let homself down through a hole in the ice and stayed there until his pursuers gave up the hunt. Minutes passed, until he no longer heard the sounds of footsteps. Then he searched again for the hole he had gone through, but he couldn't find it. As time passed and his body became stiff in the frigid water, he managed to smile and think to himself in his last few seconds: "At least they won't take me back to the cooler!"

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Pages: 1

Notes: The last half of this page was the annual Statement of Ownership piece, listing Frank D. Lee as Business Manager.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Vault-Keeper's Corner

Synopsis: VK first spouts off about Editor Gaines' being featured in a new mag called "Tops," then printed letters from Bill Spicer, Malcolm Biggs, Donna Lee Fernetti, Jack Laws, Dave DeChaine, Vera Bernard, Larry Hawkins and Art Walker before pushing copies of the two new EC 3-D mags as well as subscriptions.

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Pages: 1

Pipe Dream

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Johnny Craig

Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein [as B. Kriegstein] (signed)

Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein [as B. Kriegstein] (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); Chen Chu Yang; Yang's wife (death); Yang's son (death); Yang's daughter (death); Yang's daughter's husband (death)

Synopsis: Chen begins his tale while frequenting an opium den, a place where he can have drug-induced dreams that give him power and importance. But several visits to this drug den proffered a dream of his wife dying, later his son dying in battle, and finally his daughter's husband being murdered. The unfortunate side to these dreams was his daughter being blamed for the killing and was put to death for it. Now, Chen lay once again in the opium den.....to have yet another dream!

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Nacht der vampiers #[nn] published January 1973
as Opiumdroom [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Den store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Pibe-drømme [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Iskalde Grøss #1 [1988] published February 1988
as Drømmer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Vault of Horror #25 published October 1998
as Pipe-Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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B. Krigstein Comics #[nn] published July 2004
as Pipe-Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Messages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as Pipe Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

Two-Timed!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jack Oleck ?

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); Dickie [later called Tom]; Constable Phyfe

Synopsis: It was 1900 and little Dickie lay in his bed until he heard a sound he thought was his Mom and Dad returning home. Instead it came from outside, and he followed the sound until he saw a man viciously beating a woman tyo death, and then advance on him, grabbing him about the throat until he lost consciousness. When he awoke, his parents were there with Constable Phyfe, who found a scorched area near the boy. The crime was never solved and fiftenn years passed....the young man grew up, married, but later discovered his wife was cheating on him. So he later confronted his wife, took her out into the woods and began to beat her. He looked up to see a young kid watching and attacked him....then realized that the young kid was acually HIMSELF! He remembered the event 15 years earlier and that there was a shot, so he searched his wife's body and found the gun. Satisfied that his wife could no longer shoot him, he drenched his wife's body in gasoline and set it afire, Then a shot rang out and he staggered, falling onto his wife's blazing body. Just then Constable Phyfe pulled him out of the flames and the two talked, Tom discovering that, back then, the little boy had a scrap of paper on him that carried TODAY'S date, and he came back to the scene to investigate!

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The Vault of Horror #5 published January 1982

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Iskalde Grøss #6/1990 published January 1990
as Omenet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Vault of Horror #25 published October 1998
as Two-Timed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.