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.
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