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Issue: The Crypt of Terror #19
Publication Date: August 1950
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Issues: #19 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/18/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William M. Gaines (editor); Al Feldstein (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1950, page 37, registration number B240925.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 published March 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Ghost Ship!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1993 published January 1993
as Spøkelsesskipet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 published March 1993
as Ghost Ship! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Hungry Grave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Ed Greene; Ida Greene (villain, Ed's wife, death); Jim Kelleber (villain, Ida's lover, death)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1993 published January 1993
as Den sultne graven [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 published March 1993
as The Hungry Grave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Crypt-Keeper's Corner
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Stanley Prenta, Beulah Dainels, and The Vault-Keeper.
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Cave Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Homer Perry (assistant curator, death); Mr. Yardley (institute director); Professor Greer (anthropologist); the caveman
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 published March 1993
as Cave Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein. Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Incident on the Cliff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: NOT reprinted in Tales From the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #3 (March 1993).
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Zombie!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1991 published January 1991
as Zombie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #3 published March 1993
as Zombie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman. Original indexer credited Al Feldstein.

Craig repeats several elements from his earlier tale, "Zombie Terror" from Moon Girl #5 (Fall 1948), in this story.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

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