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TALES FROM THE CRYPT No. 33 Publisher: EC [Indicia: I.C. Publishing Co., Inc.] Date Published: December-January, 1953 Description: G/VG (3.0). Spine roll, staple rust, 1/4" split to bottom spine, nick to spine below bottom staple, vertical center crease, small corner creases, bottom spine of back cover bumped, 1½" tear to back cover and last few pages, staple rust transfer mark to back cover. Cream to light tan pages. Cover: Jack Davis. Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art: Jack Davis, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels. Origin of the Crypt Keeper by Ingels. GPAnalysis: A 3.0 sold for $500 in 1/23. The pickled corpse of a two-headed circus freak has sex with a female mummy, resulting in the Crypt Keeper's birth nine months later. Meanwhile, Graham Ingels's nauseating "None But the Lonely Heart" features a lowlife lothario getting raped by a rutting — er, rotting corpse ("The female-thing dragged the screaming man into the satin draped mausoleum... And all the while, as it closed the lid down, it kept murmuring... its foul-smelling breath upon his terror-stricken face"). "Their hypodermic injection of sex and murder make the child impatient with better, though quieter, stories. Unless we want a coming generation even more ferocious than the present one, parents and teachers throughout America must band together to break the ‘comic’ magazine.” — Dr. Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent. Enjoying the Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 351107 Headline: TALES FROM THE CRYPT #33 * 3.0 * Crypt Keeper's Origin