VAULT OF HORROR #28 * CGC 6.5 * Don & Maggie Thompson

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Title: VAULT OF HORROR No. 28 * Don & Maggie Thompson Collection
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: L.L. Publishing Co., Inc.]
Date Published: December-January, 1953
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CGC certified: Fine+ (6.5). Pedigree Label. Off-white to white pages. Cover: Johnny Craig. Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig. Art: Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, George Evans, Graham Ingels. Provenance: Don & Maggie Thompson Collection. GPAnalysis: The last time this copy traded hands, it sold for $725 (Sept. 2020).

Graham Ingels drew himself as a rummy in panel 5, page 4 of his story, "We Ain't Got No Body!" Ingels was an alcoholic whose occasional benders caused close calls with publishing deadlines. His self-mockery in this mag seems like a cringing mea culpa to Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, who, having been inconvenienced by a besotted Ingels' deadline dithering, contrived a sly strategy. "Gaines and Feldstein... began giving Ingels artificially early due dates, so even if the job came in 'late,' it was actually on time." — Grant Geissman, Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s EC Comics. Harper: 2005, p. 94.

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