Sunday, June 7, 2020

A Domestic Tragedy (1953 Horror Comic Story)

Al Feldstein (script), Bill Elder (art), “Last Laugh,” Tales from the Crypt #38, Oct.-Nov. 1953.

 

This horror comic tale (distantly related to AT 2401, The Children Play at Hog-Killing) shares elements with some contemporary legends about threefold domestic tragedies.

 

While being examined in a doctor’s office, a patient recounts the many practical jokes he has pulled over the years, including his latest prank which involved putting horse meat in a child’s clothes and laying it on a railway track. Much to the man’s delight, children who saw a train pass over the dummy ran screaming from the gory spectacle. Unbeknownst to the practical joker, however, one boy who fled from the scene ran across a street and was killed by a truck. His mother, hearing the accident, hurried from her house, leaving her baby to drown in the bathtub. The woman then died from a heart attack. The doctor reveals their fates to his patient and then exacts his revenge for the death of his entire family.


https://archive.org/stream/HorrorComics/EC%20Horror%20Comics/Tales%20from%20the%20Crypt/Tales%20from%20the%20Crypt%2020-46%20%28after%20Crypt%20of%20Terror%2019/Tales%20from%20the%20Crypt%20038#page/n19/mode/2up

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