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Tales from the Crypt (1950 E.C. Comics) comic books 1954

  • Issue #41
    Tales from the Crypt (1950 E.C. Comics) 41
    • INCOMPLETE. Missing two center wraps, interrupts art and story. Water damage.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover by Jack Davis. "Operation Friendship," script by Otto Binder, art by Jack Davis; 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. "Come Back, Little Linda," script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; In order to save money, the management of an insane asylum moves the patients into dungeon cells that the hospital was built on. "Air-Tight" text story. "Current Attraction," script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; 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. "Mess Call," script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; 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. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #42
    Tales from the Crypt (1950 E.C. Comics) 42

    Cover by Jack Davis. "Concerto for Violin and Werewolf," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Davis; A violinist who has read "Midnight Mess" in Tales from the Crypt #35 suspects that the Transylvanian town he has come to visit his old teacher in has a werewolf infestation problem. "By The Dawn's Early Light," script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; A man who has just flown in into New York from Illinois ties up a man he suspects of being a vampire just before dawn and makes him lie in a coffin. "On Ice" text story. "The Bath," script by Al Feldstein, art by Bernie Krigstein; A servant of the owner of a silver mine fills his bath with piranha after the mine owner unknowingly works the servant's younger brother to death and shoots his parents who were attempting to extract revenge. "Hoodwinked!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; A woman commits suicide when her fiancee's younger brother gets drunk and rapes her. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #43
    Tales from the Crypt (1950 E.C. Comics) 43

    Cover by Jack Davis. "Four-Way Split," script by Otto Binder, art by Jack Davis; An air freight business partner who used to man a bombsite during the war kills his partner by dropping him out of the plane directly where four states meet. "Cold War," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Kamen; Norman King meets and begins wooing a beautiful married girl named Maria; But that doesn't faze Norman one bit, so he decides to kill her husband and marry her anyway. "Inside Story" text story. "Clots My Line," script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; A television show about guessing the guest's occupation brings on a manufacturer of red ink. "Accidents and Old Lace," script by Al Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; An art dealer murders a man in order to inspire three old sisters who create beautiful tapestries upon witnessing violent deaths of people. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #44
    Tales from the Crypt (1950 E.C. Comics) 44
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4268060004
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Cover by Jack Davis. "Forever Ambergris," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Davis; A sea captain murders a man for his wife by having him row out to a plague island where he contracts the disease. "Burial At Sea," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; A man kills an old man for 30 thirty gold coins and thinks that there must be more to the treasure when he finds a treasure map locating a spot just offshore under water. "Gunman" text story. "The Proposal," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Kamen; A woman who uses men to stay surrounded by the finer things in life finally hears what she wants to hear "I want you for my wife." "The Sliceman Cometh," script by Carl Wessler, art by Graham Ingels; An executioner during the Terror, who takes money from a relative in order to guillotine his brother, finds he has a difficult time in getting rid of the head. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.