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Series: Tales from the Crypt

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Publisher: EC

Title: Tales from the Crypt
Issue: 40
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: February-March 1954
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Al Feldstein

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Tales From The Crypt #40
Owner: MedicAR

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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)


Story Title: Food for Thought - comic story
Features:The Crypt of Terror
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Davis
Inks:Jack Davis
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric (Marta's lover, animal trainer, death); Marta (Carl's wife, circus mind reader); Carl (villain, Marta's husband, thought projector, death); a ghoul (villain)
Synopsis:A woman plots to run away with the circus animal trainer because her husband, even though he can project his thoughts to her which they use as their act, does not love her. The husband tumbles to the plot and forces the animal trainer at gunpoint into the lion's cage where he is torn apart. The wife suspects him but has no proof and so when the husband is accidentally paralyzed when a beam lands upon him while the circus packs up, she ignores his thoughts for help and coldly advises them not to embalm him so that he is buried alive.


Story Title: Pearly to Dead - comic story
Features:The Vault of Horror!
Pages:7
Pencils:George Evans [as G. Evans] (signed)
Inks:George Evans [as G. Evans] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Vault-Keeper (host); Phil Cannon (death); Gladys (Phil's girl); unnamed college swimming coach; Larry Miles (villain, death)
Synopsis:Two navy divers discover a pearl bed while placing demo charges and make plans to go back for them after the war ends. One gets greedy and murders the other one whose corpse then surprises him while he is attempting to acquire the pearls.


Story Title: Choice! - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Prairie Schooner - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Inks:Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mildred Jackson [aka Milly] (death); Mr. Gunner (shop owner, cameo); unnamed plumber; unnamed carpenter; Captain Ezra Jackson (villain, sailor, death)
Synopsis:Old seaman Ezra is abruptly retired from his duties at sea and shows up at the home of his old time friend, Milly. Stranded in this Kansas home, away from all he ever knew at sea, the sailor goes mad and converts Milly's house into a ship in the middle of a prairie and she is made the one-man crew of the ship, until she drops dead.


Story Title: Half-Baked! - 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); Calvin Dugan; John (restaurant's chef)
Synopsis:A man who enjoys tormenting lobster ends up in a car crash where the steering column disembowels him and the flames that erupt broil him alive.


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