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Tales from the Crypt #38 (1953) · The Collector

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EC
Tales from the Crypt (1950)
#38

EC#38

Tales from the Crypt

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Tales from the Crypt #38

Publisher: EC
Cover date: October 1953
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Stories

4 titled

1Tight Grip!
2...Only Skin Deep!
3

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Grand Comics Database issue 10825

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This story is narrated by a trunk and concerns the murder of a woman the trunk is fond of. When the murderer attempts to hide in the trunk, he panics and shoots holes through it, whereupon the trunk contracts itself turning the killer into flesh spaghetti and concentrated bone.

Last Laugh

4Mournin' Mess

Credits

Writers: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein
Pencillers: Jack Davis, Reed Crandall, Bill Elder, Graham Ingels
Inkers: Jack Davis, Reed Crandall, Bill Elder, Graham Ingels
Colorist: Marie Severin
Letterer: Jim Wroten
Cover: Jack Davis

Editorial and production

Editor: Al Feldstein
Managing editor: Bill Gaines

Characters

a doctor
A. M. Moore
Carl Roswell
Felix J. Copehard
Herbert
Jeeves
Mayor Merk
Moore's wife
practical joker
Suzanne
Sweeney
Sweeney's boss
The Crypt-Keeper
The Old Witch
The Vault-Keeper
unnamed bellboy
unnamed Justice of the Peace
Willy
Wilma

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