Tales from the Crypt 1990 #1 - back issue - $8.00

The Crypt-Keeper tells the tale of a traveling carnival and it's two star attractions, a two-headed man and a female mummy who fall in love and give birth to a famous story teller.

A magician murders an Indian girl for her trick of causing a rope to rise and dance when she plays her flute. However, he finds out how dangerous a living rope can become.

A young boy is devastated by the death of his nanny. But, it turns out she was simply in a coma. The boy is overjoyed until he finds out a funeral might have all sorts of good food for the taking. Well, he ensures the nanny will have a funeral, after all.

A con man with a penchant for murdering his wives finally finds true love. But, one of his ex-wives still has something to say about it.

When a man commits the "perfect" murder, he realizes he has to clean his fingerprints off of anything he touched in the house. Things snowball, though, as he tries to remember exactly what he had touched. The police find the next morning, polishing the silverware in the attic.

A shameless gold-digger ends up paying for her sins in a roundabout way.

A spurned wife finds a way to claim her husband forever. Here's a hint: it involves a branding iron.

A man murder his wife and packs her body into a trunk. He takes trunk on a train and secretly exchanges it with another, identical trunk. When the police look inside his new trunk, though, there's another body in there.

A reprinting of Tales from the Crypt #33 and Crime Suspenstories #17. The text stories, "Castaway" and "Big Blow!" from the original issues are not reprinted in this issue.

• Lower Berth! - Cover feature.
• - Letters from Stuart Glass, Nidred, the Were-cat, Astute Observer, Dick Mandel, Roger A. Nippress, Fred Barth, David S. Spiel, Allan Katz, Art "Eric" Walker, John Reid, G. W. Sheridan, and a bunch of parody titles and poems sent in by various readers.
• Now Available! E.C. Classics! - Outside back cover.