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Series: Tales from the Crypt

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Publisher: EC

Title: Tales from the Crypt
Issue: 20
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: October-November 1950
Volume: 1

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Tales from the Crypt #20 - 1st Issue
Owner: GradedKeyComics

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Crypt-Keeper (inset); Theodore J. Warren; Alex Kordova


Story Title: Look for this Seal... - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Thing from the Sea - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis:During a sea voyage a passenger discovers that stateroom 13 has the reputation of being haunted. He discovers that it is indeed haunted by the corpse of someone the captain murdered and it drops into sea after taking revenge upon the captain.


Story Title: End of the Search - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: A Fatal Caper - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Teenagers remove a body from a casket in order to dress as a mystically-summoned monster and place one of their own inside as a prank, however, the undertaker is unaware of this and buries the body. When they tell him that he must dig it back up, he refuses because the corpse inside died of leprosy. They all look down in horror at their hands and realize they must have contracted it.


Story Title: Science Fiction Fans! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Backfire - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.5
Pencils:various
Inks:various
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:The Crypt-Keeper's Corner
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Rx...Death - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Janet Bennett; Gregory Bennett (Janet's brother); Dr. Wentworth; unnamed druggist
Synopsis:A sister worries that her brother is under too much stress and so asks a doctor to write a prescription for some medicine. The doctor does so, but the old-fashioned druggist has only a bottle with the correct label, but after the doctor examines it, he realizes it is not the correct substance. After the contents have been analyzed, the results indicate that for the past several weeks, her brother has been slowly digested alive.


Story Title: Impending Doom! - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Theodore J. Warren (artist, death); Ellen Kordova (Alex's wife); Alex Kordova (villain, stonecutter)
Synopsis:An artist draws a frightened face with a circle around it. Thinking it odd, he goes for a walk encountering a grave-stone cutter who looks exactly like the picture he drew of the man carving a tombstone with his name on it. The stone-cutter laughs it off, but wants to show his wife the picture. It turns out the artist and the stone-cutter's wife were once romantically involved and she wants to be so again. The stone-cutter catches them together and kills the artist, but is facing the hangman's noose for it.


Story Title: "All-Around" He-Man - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Gigantic Nationwide Sale - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: New Silk-Finish Enlargement, Ivory Gold-Tooled Frame - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset


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

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