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Title: TALES FROM THE CRYPT No. 25
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: I.C. Publishing Co., Inc.]
Date Published: August-September, 1951
Description:

G/VG (3.0). Minor spine roll, light spine stress, top right corner of front cover creased and with short tear, bottom corner of back cover creased, centerfold loose, grease-pencilled distributor's mark ("R") ro "T" in "CRYPT." Cream to light tan pages. Would grade 4.0 if not for loose centerfold. Cover: Al Feldstein. Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art: Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels. GPAnalysis: A 3.0 sold for $172 in 4/19.

EC's cynical view of romance is on full display in Jack Kamen's "Loved to Death," in which a lonely nebbish dopes an indifferent gal with love serum. Soon, the lovesick gal's affections grow old, and the nebbish accidentally offs himself with poison meant for her. His ghost awakes in the afterlife, relieved to be free from his annoying love-slave, until her ghost shows up to love-bomb him for all eternity.

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