Tales from the Crypt is published by EC Comics in 1950. Having previously been the titles Crime Patrol and briefly The Crypt of Terror, and the famous character, the Crypt Keeper, debuting five months earlier, the bi-monthly horror anthology comic was probably the most famous of EC’s three horror titles (including The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear) and would run 27 issues until censorship pressure from the U.S. Congress shut it down in 1955. Three film and two TV adaptations would later be produced using stories from the comic.
This Day in Halloween: Original and iconic horror comic "Tales from the Crypt" is published by EC Comics in 1950. / Illustration by Lee Ernest