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Vault of Horror #23 (1952) · The Collector

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EC
Vault of Horror (1950)
#23

EC#23

Vault of Horror

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Vault of Horror #23

Publisher: EC
Cover date: February 1952
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

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Stories

4 titled

1A Stitch in Time!
299 44/100% Pure Horror!
3

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Grand Comics Database issue 223238

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An old-fashioned sweatshop, run by Mr. Lasch, makes the women work 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, for a salary of $6, using dangerous, outdated machinery, and being treated like slaves. Complainers were forced to go the "scrap box”: a place where scraps of cloth and thread were thrown together and they would have to untangle it all and respool the thread, a job that usually drove the woman insane. But they had a plan to get even, much to Mr. Lasch's regret!

Dead Wait!

4Staired... in Horror!

Credits

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

Editorial and production

Editor: Al Feldstein
Managing editor: Bill Gaines

Characters

'Red' Buckley
Benny Anderson
Emil Duval
Ernie Mattson
Irma Leechman
Kulu
Mr. Hudson
Mr. Lasch
Robert Hornsby
sweatshop workers
The Crypt-Keeper
The Old Witch
The Vault-Keeper

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