The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #33 (2023) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series)
Issue: #33
Issue title: Deadly Beloved and Other Stories
Publication date: January 2023
Key date: January 2023
On-sale date: 2023-01
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 274
Barcode: 978168396576353500
ISBN: 9781683965763

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Deadly Beloved and Other Stories	cover	1	pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
1	Deadly Beloved and Other Stories	credits, title page	3	pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
2	-	table of contents	2	pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
3	Dateline: Johnny Craig	text article	11	script: Max Allan Collins; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
4	Whirlpool	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed woman; three asylum employees
5	The Tryst!	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	Julie Adams [aka Julie Hendricks] (a secretary); Mr. Cowles (Hendrick's employee); Mr. Farnsworth (client of Hendricks, death); Tommy (an orphan, death); John Hendricks (villain, Julie's boss and later husband)
6	Fire Trap!	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten
7	Star Light, Star Bright!	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); Hartley Quimb
8	Understudies!	comic story	7	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	Myrtle Donaldson (Jim's wife, death); Mr. Williams (Gail's husband); Jim Donaldson (villain); Gail Williams (villain)
9	...And All Through the House...	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); Santa Claus
10	Bats in My Belfry!	comic story	8	script: Al Feldstein; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten
11	Twin Bill!	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); Larry Bannister
12	Surprise Party!	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); Drusilla (cameo); Jerry Adams
13	Any Sport in a Storm	comic story	8	script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); Drusilla [cameos]; Lon Shannon; Timothy O'Rourke
14	Deadly Beloved!	comic story	8	script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); Drusilla (cameo); Edward Leeds; Eloise Fontagne
15	Old Man Mose!	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host); Drusilla (cameo); Mose; Ned Rogers
16	Dateline: Cayo Romano, Cuba!	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels
17	Dateline: Key West!	comic story	6	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels
18	Dateline: Oslo	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels
19	Dateline: New York City	comic story	6	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels
20	Dateline: Algiers	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels
21	Dateline: Paris	comic story	6	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels
22	Dateline: New York City	comic story	8	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels; Steve "Slick" Rampart
23	Dateline: Rio Para	comic story	6	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig	Keith Michaels
24	Dateline: Long Island Sound	comic story	7	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	Keith Michaels
25	Dateline: Germersheim	comic story	7	script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; letters: Jim Wroten	Keith Michaels
26	The Robbery Ring The Case of the Striking Serpent!	comic story	9	pencils: Howard Larsen; inks: Howard Larsen	Three unnamed hoodlums; Mr. Connors; Legrand; Inspector Hall
27	The Werewolf's Curse!	comic story	8	pencils: Howard Larsen; inks: Howard Larsen
28	The Hanged Man's Revenge	comic story	6	pencils: Howard Larsen; inks: Howard Larsen; letters: Jim Wroten
29	The Borrowed Body!	comic story	7	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Howard Larsen; inks: Howard Larsen; letters: Jim Wroten	The Vault-Keeper (host)
30	That's a 'Croc'!	comic story	7	script: Al Feldstein, Bill Gaines; pencils: Howard Larsen; inks: Howard Larsen; letters: Jim Wroten	The Old Witch (host); "Crazy" Coogan (zoo-keeper)
31	Vampire of the Bayous	comic story	7	script: Richard Kraus; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	Moon Girl [Claire Lune]
32	The Menace of the Railroads!	comic story	8	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	Tom 'Choo-Choo' Jones; Diana Rage; J. L. Grover; Superintendent Peters; Susan; Mauler; Baldy; Pop Jones; Engineer White
33	"A Bed of Murder"	comic story	7	script: Harry Harrison; pencils: Harry Harrison; inks: Harry Harrison; letters: Jim Wroten
34	Werewolf	comic story	7	script: Harry Harrison; pencils: Harry Harrison; inks: Wally Wood; letters: Jim Wroten	Reggie and Eric Smythe; Viktor Zorak; Edna and John Farnum; Jan Bodzla
35	Johnny Craig	text article	6	script: S. C. Ringgenberg; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
36	Hurry Up, You Idiot! My Fingernails Are Burning!	text article	8	script: Paul Kast; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
37	Behind the Panels	text article	4	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff
38	Statue Head Dug Up	illustration	1	pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
39	Crime, Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction, Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics	text article	3	script: Ted White
40	The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
41	Frightening Man Laughing	illustration	1	pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig
42	Every EC Ray Bradbury Story in One Volume!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Wally Wood; inks: Wally Wood
43	Johnny Craig's Ultimate Prime Crime and Holiday Horror!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Foul Play and Other Stories ISBN 9781683969549	2024	On eBay ›
The Spawn of Venus ISBN 9798875000393	2025	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

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