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Vault of Horror, Issue #37
Publisher: EC
Series Title: Vault of Horror Vol: 1
Issue: #37
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Craig, Johnny - Vault of Horror, issue 37, page 1 (Jun/Jul 1954)
Art Details
| Artist: | Johnny Craig (All) |
| Media Type: | Pen and Ink |
| Art Type: | Title Page |
| For Sale Status: | NFS |
| Views: | 4250 |
| Comments: | 27 |
| Added to Site: | 10/25/2015 |
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Issue Breakdown
| Type | Title | Creators | Characters | Synopsis |
| cover | Take Care |
Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed) Inks: Johnny Craig (signed) |
The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset) | |
| advertisement |
Pencils: Bill Elder (signed) Inks: Bill Elder (signed) |
B/W EC house ad for Panic. | ||
| comic story | Surprise Party! |
Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed) Inks: Johnny Craig (signed) Letters: Jim Wroten Colors: Marie Severin |
The Vault-Keeper (host); Drusilla (cameo); Jerry Adams | Jerry Adams arrived in a small town on a rainy night, checked into a motel and headed out to see a movie. He hits a detour and turns off on a dirt road [which isn't on any map] and gets lost, gets out and walks a it until he spots a house. As he approaches it, he sees that a party is in progress, and is invited to join in. He thoroughly enjoys himself, dancing the hours away w/his beautiful hostess. Then it dawns on him that the band plays only one tune the entire night, and his hostess tells him that it was the tune being played on the night of the fire. When he tells the crowd his name, they suddenly turn on him.....the flesh falling from their faces, as they explain that, back in 1884, his hostess was celebrating her engagement to Roger Wertham, but a rival suitor, named Adams, set fire to the house, killing everyone in it. Since then, on the same night, all the people "return" to re-enact that night until their deaths could be avenged. Now, that Jerry Adams has shown up, they now avenge themselves on him, his ancestor! |
| comic story | Chop Talk! |
Pencils: Jack Davis (signed) Inks: Jack Davis (signed) Letters: Jim Wroten Colors: Marie Severin |
The Crypt-Keeper (host); Emil Voight; Anna; Heinrich | Emil and Anna said their last goodbyes to each other in the park.....their affair was to be over. But Emil decided to end it permamently: he killed her, and her husband came along, witnessed the act, stuck Emil and carried his dead wife away. But he returned and grabbed Emil and turned him into the Police....a trial was held and Emil was sentenced to have his head chopped off. Little did he know his executioner was Heinrich, the husband of the dead woman, and he proceeded to tell Emil how a person dies at the block. Emil lost consciousness and dreamed of that gory moment....then suddenly awoke. For days he agonized, until the day he decided to accept his fate and went to the block cheerfully. When Heinrich saw this, he lost his temper....killed Voight, then swallowed poison to be with his Anna. Suddenly, a voice called out to Emil Voight in a strange afterlife.....the voice of Heinrich, who proceeded to kill Emil again and again and again.....for all eternity! |
| text story | Sharp |
Pencils: ? (spot illo) Inks: ? (spot illo) Letters: typeset |
Milton Canasta; Aunt Bridger | As long as he could remember, Milton had hated his Aunt Bridger, who spent her days squandering the Canasta fortune, while Milton scrapped just to get by. To make matters worse, she was squandering it away on antique jewelry....jewelry she couldn't even see because she was blind! So he decided to credep into the house....right past her and grab handfuls to sell. Then, as he placed an odd snake ring on to his finger, Aunt Bridger walked into the room, catching him in the act, and he said he was on his way out. As per her usual custom, she required a firm handshake before his departure, and they shook hands.....but Milton felt the sensation of a pin prick. And as he walked out of the house and down the street, he noted the finger the ring was on was now a purplish-red....pain screamed through his body, which began to suffer from convulsions. As he lay dying, he now realized the ring was loaded w/poison.....and soon....very soon....his eyes saw nothing! |
| advertisement | Do People Laugh At You for Reading Comics Books? |
Pencils: Jack Davis (signed) Inks: Jack Davis (signed) |
EC house ad for MAD Comics. | |
| letters page | Letters: typeset | VK presents a pieces of perverted poetry from John Wykoff and G.R.D., then some Pulsating Pograms from Larry Hauck and Also Betro, then some Morbid Movies from Bob Burg, then some Lurid Lyrics from Pete Oliphant, and finally new lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by E. Nelson Bridwell. Finally, VK prints letters from L.P. and Ritchie Brocket, then pushes the EC 3-D mags and subscriptions to the Vault of Horror. | ||
| comic story | Take Care |
Pencils: Al Williamson (signed) Inks: Angelo Torres (signed) Letters: Jim Wroten Colors: Marie Severin |
The Vault-Keeper (host); Jefferson Bates (trustee of estate, death); Albrecht Dench (caretaker of estate, death); Avery Ballusk (former owner of estate, death); Rudolph Dregg (Ballusk's butler) | The former butler to Avery Ballusk waited on the owner hand and foot, but seemed only interested in inheriting his money after Ballusk's death, which soon came, at the end of a rope. The butler disappeared soon after, and a trial could provide no evidence that the "butler did it"! It is to this house that appointed trustee and his caretaker companion venture into the home for the first time to look it over.......but they never walk out......alive! |
| comic story | Oh! Henry! |
Pencils: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed) Inks: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed) Letters: Jim Wroten Colors: Marie Severin |
The Old Witch (host); Lieutenant Lionel "Hard Hart" Hart (detective, death); unnamed shopkeeper; Henry (old lady's husband, death); unnamed old lady (villain) | Lionel Hart, plainclothes detective, had made many arrests, not listening to phony stories from the guilty. One day he caught an old lady for shoplifting, and she pleaded for him to understand that the food she took was for her sick, paralyzed husband, Henry. But Hart wouldn't listen and he took her in, got a conviction and had her thrown into jail. A month later he decided to check the woman's story out, and went over to her home and found her husband dead in his wheelchair! Blaming himself, he had the woman released, and went to make amends. But was he in for a surprise! |
Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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