Tales from the Crypt #34
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall!", two con artists scheme to sell fake oil stock in a sleepy town, but their plan takes a deadly turn when one fakes his death and is buried—only to find his grave has become a hotspot for real oil. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with art by George Evans and inks by Roy Krenkel, this chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #34 (1953) delivers a twist of fate that’s as explosive as it is unexpected. The cover by Jack Davis captures the moment with a haunting, perfectly timed menace.
In "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall!", the Crypt-Keeper invites you into a twisted carnival where a man’s obsession with immortality leads him to build a monstrous vessel from artificial parts—only to find his own reflection becomes his final, horrifying fate. As the mirrors multiply and distort, a chilling confrontation unfolds between a man and the monstrous form he’s created, where identity and nightmare blur in a deadly game of self-recognition.
In this chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #34, the Crypt-Keeper spins a grim fable of tyranny and retribution, where a king’s insatiable greed leads to a grotesque tax on his people’s very limbs—until the peasants rise in savage defiance. A dark, twisted parable of excess and consequence, it’s a story that lingers long after the final page.
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Reprinted in Tales from the Crypt #34 (1953), The Autumn People #U2141 (1965), Tales from the Crypt #3 (1979), De vloek van de volle maan #[nn] (1981), Les Meilleures Histoires de... #[1] (1983), Monsieur Sourire #[nn] (1985), Iskalde Grøss #1/1989 (1989), Iskalde Grøss #8/1989 (1989), Iskalde Grøss #8/1990 (1990), Tales from the Crypt #2 (1991), Skræk #3 (1994), Skræk #6 (1994), Tales from the Crypt #18 (1996), Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC #3 (2003), Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt #[nn] (2012), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 (2013), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #7 (2014), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics #[nn] (2019), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #30 (2021), Dracula: The Original Graphic Novel #[nn] (2021), Tales from the Crypt #3 (2022), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories #[nn] (2023), The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #3 (2024), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #36 (2024)
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