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Series: Tales from the Crypt

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Publisher: EC

Title: Tales from the Crypt
Issue: 33
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: December 1952-January 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Al Feldstein

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Tales from the Crypt #33 - Origin of the Crypt Keeper
Owner: GradedKeyComics

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:Jack Davis (signed)
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); Myrna; Enoch


Story Title: Lower Berth! - comic story
Features:The Crypt of Terror
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:Jack Davis (signed)
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Crypt-Keeper (host); Ernest Feeley (carnival owner); Myrna [aka Myranah] (Crypt-Keeper's mother, death); Zachary Cling (Myrna's owner); un-named Egyptian Pharaoh; un-named wife of Pharaoh; Enoch (Crypt-Keeper's father, death); Dr. Jebson Sickles (Enoch's owner); un-named Justice of the Peace
Synopsis:The Crypt Keeper relates his origin story of the meeting between his parents, a 4000 year old female Egyptian mummy and a two-headed corpse.


Story Title: This Trick'll Kill You! - comic story
Features:The Vault of Horror!
Pages:7
Pencils:George Evans [as Evans] (signed)
Inks:Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed Indian girl (death); Herbert Markini (villain, magician, death); Inez Markini (villain, Herbert's wife, death)
Synopsis:A magician and his wife are visiting India looking for new acts to perform when he spies a girl with a trick rope that rises into the air when she plays a pipe and can be climbed upon. He offers to buy the rope from her but she refuses. His wife invites her back to the hotel room where the two plot to kill her and steal the rope. They kill her, but the rope suddenly has a mind of its own, much to the couple's horror.


Story Title: Castaway - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Funeral - comic story
Features:The Crypt-Keeper's Grim Fairy Tale!
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks:Jack Kamen (signed)
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis:In this grim fairy tale, a young prince grows fond of his nanny until one day she appears dead. The king attempts to console his heart-broken son by offering him candy, cake and a pony at the funeral for his nanny. The boy peeks in on her as she is lying in state and sees her move. It turns out she suffers from cataleptic fits and reassures the prince that she will never leave him. The boy thinks of all the nice things that he won't be getting due to the cancellation of the funeral and so brings a candlestick down upon her head.


Story Title: None But the Lonely Heart! - comic story
Features:The Witch's Cauldron!
Pages:7
Pencils:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inks:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin ?
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Old Witch (host); Matilda Filby (in flashback, death); Ephie (in flashback, death); Luella (in flashback, death); Veronica (in flashback, death); apartment manager (in flashback); Mr. Bibbs; Janet (a corpse); King (Howard's dog); Howard [aka Mr. Prince; aka Mr. Royal; aka Mr. Throne] (villain)
Synopsis:A man who marries homely wealthy women and murders them for their money receives a lonely-hearts letter from a woman who tells him that she lives in a large stone house and enclosures a photograph of a lovely woman whom she admits the picture displays two years ago, not having a more recent snapshot. Since she is so beautiful, he decides that it's time to wind up his racket and settle down. She accepts his proposal and he dashes out to meet her.....with stunning results.


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