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Title: TALES FROM THE CRYPT No. 33
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1952-January, 1953
Description: CGC certified: Fine/VF (7.0). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: Light creasing to cover; light spine stress lines to cover; very light staining to cover.

CGC Census: 248 graded copies (235 Universal, 1 Qualified, 3 Signature, 9 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 7.0 sold for $837 in 12/23.

Credits: Cover: Jack Davis. Scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art: Jack Davis, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels. Overstreet: "Origin of the Crypt Keeper."Crypt Keeper's Origin: The pickled corpse of a two-headed circus freak shags a female mummy on a train, resulting in the Crypt Keeper's "lower berth" 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.______________________________________________________________

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