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TALES FROM THE CRYPT No. 38 Author: Place: Publisher: Entertaining Comics Date: October-November, 1953 Description: VG- (3.5). Feldstein scripts. Davis cover. Art by Davis, Elder, Ingels, Crandall. Jack Davis cover, one of two EC covers censored before publication on the advice of Bill Gaines' attorney (the other being Johnny Craig's Vault of Horror #32). Davis's original version had a woman's arm protruding from the trunk, with hair and bits of human debris flying under the axe-man's assault. "The pages of nearly all EC comics... swelled with portrayals of marriage and family life as sources of unbearable torment. Married people, especially wives, were invariably duplicitous, conniving, abusive, and often murderous. 'We got a lot of mileage out of scheming wives and vengeful husbands,' Gaines said. In EC's horror paradigm, the true graveyard was the living room of the American home." -David Hadju, The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America [FSG: 2008]. PBA Grading Guarantee: Any individual comic book lot (not group lots) graded by PBA is guaranteed to match CGC grading. If the buyer chooses to have the comic CGC certified and that certification is lower than PBA’s, the lot may be returned for a full refund of the sales price (hammer price plus buyer’s premium). See terms and conditions for details. Consignments Accepted for PBA's Next Comic Book Auction. Golden Age, Silver Age, Pre-Code, Original Art, Interesting Ephemera Sought. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com for details. March 26th Comic Book Sale catalogues available. Supplies Limited. Softcover catalogues limited to 200 copies ($45 + $5 postage/handling). Hardcovers limited to 26 lettered copies, dust jackets, special limitation plates ($150). Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 311455