Tales from the Crypt Vol 1 42

Tales from the Crypt Vol 1 #42

June, 1954

Cover Artists

Jack Davis

Publisher

EC Comics

"Concerto for Violin and Werewolf"
Pencilers Jack Davis

"By the Dawn's Early Light"
Pencilers Jack Kamen

"The Bath"
Pencilers Bernie Krigstein

"Hoodwinked!"
Pencilers Graham Ingels

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Appearing in "Concerto for Violin and Werewolf"

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Synopsis for "Concerto for Violin and Werewolf"

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A violinist who has read Midnight Mess in Tales from the Crypt #35 suspects that the Transylvania town he has come to visit his old teacher in has a werewolf infestation problem, but his suspicions do not go deep enough, as he overlooks his teacher who replaces his submachine gun with a violin.

Appearing in "By the Dawn's Early Light"

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Synopsis for "By the Dawn's Early Light"

A man who has just flown in into New York from Illinois ties up a man he suspects of being a vampire just before dawn and makes him lie in a coffin. When he doesn't fall asleep at dawn, he unties him, and the vampire leaps for his throat reminding him that Illinois is an hour behind New York and he forgot to reset his watch.

Appearing in "The Bath"

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Synopsis for "The Bath"

A servant of the owner of a silver mine fills his bath with piranha after the mine owner unknowningly works the servant's younger brother to death and shoots his parents who were attempting to extract revenge.

Appearing in "Hoodwinked!"

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Synopsis for "Hoodwinked!"

A woman commits suicide when her fiancee's younger brother gets drunk and rapes her. The older brother cuts his head off and uses it as the car ornament that the younger brother had asked him for.

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Trivia

This issue's cover was parodied on the cover of the one-shot underground comic "Tales from the Fridge" #1.

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