(April-May 1954)

EC, 1950 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
EC An Entertaining Comic
Editing
Al Feldstein (credited as Albert B. Feldstein) (editor); Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (managing editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks
Jack Davis (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
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Operation Friendship (Table of Contents: 1)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Binder
Pencils
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks
Jack Davis (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Heh, heh... and heh! (Just to be different.)
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Philip (engineer, lives on as a brain only); Jondra (Philip's fiance); Joan; Dr. Andrew Hobart (villain)
Synopsis
A mad surgeon cuts out 75% of his married friend's brain so that he can maintain it in a vat and enjoy the mental stimulation of his company while his dumb wife gets the remaining 25% of his brain and his body and never notices the difference.
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Indexer Notes

Writer revision from Al Feldstein to Otto Binder by Craig Delich 2013-4-17, per EC Artists' Library, Volume 4 "'Tain't the Meat...It's the Humanity" (2013).

Come Back, Little Linda (Table of Contents: 2)

The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils
George Evans (signed as Evans)
Inks
George Evans (signed as Evans)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Heh, heh! And now that C.K. has chilled your blood...
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed prisoner; Dr. Morgan Ullman (villain); Eric Hagen (villain)
Synopsis
In order to save money, the management of an insane asylum moves the patients into dungeon cells that the hospital was built on. When an inspection notice from the state board arrives, the doctor panics and orders that all the patients return to their wards. Their scheme is undone when one old crazy man refuses to be bullied into silence, crying out to the inspectors that they've taken his beloved 'Linda' away from him. When they follow his headlong dash downstairs, they find that 'Linda' is a rather large dungeon rat.
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Indexer Notes

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

The visage of the Vault-Keeper on page 1 is a photostat of Johnny Craig's art in "Werewolf Concerto."

Air-Tight (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

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Current Attraction (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils
Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
Inks
Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Age had crept up on old Rufus and stiffened his joints...
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis
A circus father attempts to get the knife thrower out of his daughter's life by placing a bar magnet behind the board the knife thrower's wife stands in front of while he does his act, but the daughter convinces the wife to leave him and she takes her place in the act.
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Indexer Notes

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Mess Call (Table of Contents: 5)

The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Jack Oleck ?
Pencils
Graham Ingels (signed)
Inks
Graham Ingels (signed)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hee, hee! Well, don't just stand there with your tongues hanging out!
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Old Witch (host); Corporal Hans Gruber (German soldier); unnamed Oberleutnant (cameo); unnamed doctor; Herr Ludmeyer (death); Gustav Shotz (death); Frau Shotz (death); Herr Heinrich (villain, German butcher, death)
Synopsis
A German soldier, addled by his experiences in the trenches of WWI, is recruited by a butcher in the following war to dispose of patrons in the cellar so that he has plenty of meat to sell. In the end, Corporal Gruber comes to his senses long enough to settle accounts before he is committed to a sanitarium.
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Indexer Notes

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Operation Friendship
    The Crypt of Terror
  3. 2. Come Back, Little Linda
    The Vault of Horror!
  4. 3. Air-Tight
  5. 4. Current Attraction
  6. 5. Mess Call
    The Witch's Cauldron!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Bill Borre
  • Chris Boyko
  • Craig Delich
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Glenn MacKay
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Steffen Nyeland
  • Jason Sacks
  • Jim Stangas
  • Tom Vincent