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Publisher: EC

Title: Vault of Horror
Issue: 28
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: December 1952-January 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Al Feldstein; Bill Gaines (managing editor)

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Vault of Horror #28
Owner: GradedKeyComics

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Story Title: Till Death... - cover
Features:The Vault of Horror!
Pages:1
Pencils:Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:Johnny Craig (signed)
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Mad
Pages:1
Pencils:Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Inks:Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Synopsis:Promotional ad for MAD #2 [with cover by Jack Davis].


Story Title: Till Death... - comic story
Features:The Vault of Horror!
Pages:8
Pencils:Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:Johnny Craig (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Vault-Keeper (host); Donna (Steve's wife, death); Steve (death); Jebco (servant)
Synopsis:Steve's new wife falls ill, dies and is buried. Steve's servant, Jebco, tries to fill the void, but the despair is too great. But Jebco says there is a way to have her back, and secretly he removes the corpse of Donna from her grave and puts it through a voodoo ritual.....and she walks again....as a zombie! Steve is overjoyed until she begins to decompose. When Steve, in vain, tries to kill her, he drinks poison to end it all. But loyal Jebco puts him through the same voodoo ritual, and he returns as a zombie....to be with his love....forever!


Story Title: The Chips Are Down! - comic story
Features:The Crypt of Terror
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:Jack Davis (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Crypt-Keeper (host); Sigmund Darby; Averill Henning; Dilbert Field; Colonel Turner
Synopsis:Sigmund was buzzed on his intercom that Colonel Turner was there to see him and his two partners, Henning and Field. The Colonel was there to tell them that their sawmill had been chosen ror a highly secret government contract to produce thin wooden discs, at a rate of 60,000 per month. They agreed, but then wondered how they could produce that many until Field arrived at a solution with a new type of saw. Later, Henning and Darby muse over a way to keep all the profits for themselves, cutting Field out by engaging him in poker matches and taking him to the cleaners by winning his share in the saw mill.....which they did. After he walked out of the game, he shot himself and was buried.....and as Darby and Henning walk away, they muse over the marked deck they had used on Field. What they didn't see was a rotting hand rising from Field's grave that followed the two back to the mill, where screams are heard. The next morning, the mill foreman walked into open up and saw Darby and Henning standing stiffly next to the cutting machine in a pool of blood. When he touched them, they fell over.....minutely sliced into thousands of thin layers!


Story Title: The Defiler - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? (spot illo)
Inks:? (spot illo)
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Trader Trask
Synopsis:Trader Trask, an unscrupulous trader on Africa's west coast, used whiskey to cheat the natives out of their valuable ivory, gold, timber and raw rubber. His ship was full of this cargo after his "dealings" with the natives and was preparing to sail off when he saw a tempting silver pendant hanging around the neck of an Arab. He was able to see a strange writing on its reverse and wanted to buy it....but the Arab refused. The next day, Trask walked into the Arab's tent, grabbed the pendant, slit open a pig and shoved the pendant inside....defiling the object. He then pulled it out and threw the pig at the merchant and left. The next morning, Trask was found in bed....his stomach ripped open and the pig stuck into his belly.....while the Arab once more proudly wore the pendant.....able to do so because of what was written on the back of the pendant: it said that only a swine would defile this object....so to cast away sacrilege, it could be annointed with a larger swine's bile: that of Trader Trask!


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:The Vault-Keeper's Corner
Pages:1
Pencils:Johnny Craig (spot illo)
Inks:Johnny Craig (spot illo)
Letters:typeset
Characters:The Vault-Keeper (spot illustration)
Synopsis:VK features letters from Willy Reith, Robert Goldstein, B.D. Velvin, Jr., Walt Bowart, Mrs. C.H. Lindles, Gene Schaffel, George Salaida and Bobbie Kelley. Barbara Matson sent in some "torrid terror tunes" for the E.C. Horror Hit Parade, then told readers that writer Ray Bradbury has given permission to EC to adapt some of his stories. VK also pushed subscriptions to EC mags.


Story Title: For How the Bell Tolls! - comic story
Features:The Vault-Keeper's Grim Fairy Tale!
Pages:6
Pencils:George Evans (signed)
Inks:George Evans (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed King; unnamed Queen; unnamed bell ringer (death); unnamed apprentice to the bell ringer (villain, death)
Synopsis:Long ago, in a far-away land, there was a castle which had a belfry and a large bell hanging in it. Every time there was a special occasion, the royal bell ringer plied his trade, watched for over 34 years by his apprentice, but never given the chance to ring the bell once in all that time! On the Queen's birthday, the royal bell ringer, now very old, was told to ring it all day long, but his apprentice wanted to do it. When he was told no, he pulled down an axe from the wall and killed the royal bell ringer just as the King walked in. But the paid for the crime as the clapper for the bell.


Story Title: We Ain't Got No Body! - 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); Henry Bodwin (Norton's brother, department store owner, death in flashback, a walking corpse); Mr. Yeson; Flaggerty (policeman); Norton Bodwin (villain, also in flashback); Charlie (villain, death, in flashback); Sidney (villain, death, in flashback)
Synopsis:The rotting corpse of Henry Bodwin confronts his brother Norton, and reminds him about when his two buddies and he conspired to kill him over the will in which Henry had made Norton his beneficiary: for $20,000 with double indemnity. The trio pushed Henry under the wheels of a train, killing him, but all they ever found was the man's torso....no arms or legs. The check for $40,000 was a reason for the three to celebrate, until strange events led to retribution by Henry and peace in the grave at last.


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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