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Cover: Jack Davis & Jack Davis
Tales from the Crypt #39
“Undertaking Palor”
writer Bill Gaines · writer Al Feldstein · artist Joe Orlando · inker Joe Orlando · letterer Jim Wroten · cover Jack DavisJack Davis
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Full credits
writer Bill Gaines
writer Al Feldstein
artist Joe Orlando
inker Joe Orlando
letterer Jim Wroten
cover pencils Jack Davis
cover inks Jack Davis
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This story is told by a grave. It speaks of spending lonely years of being laughed at by the other graves, because they have children (corpses) while the narrator remains barren. Finally a casket is brought to the craving grave, but the body of Cynthia does not rest in peace. Her no-good nephew, who once robbed her, returns with his wife and begs forgiveness. Cynthia takes the two of them in, only to be murdered for her money. Her rotted corpse then rises from the grave and buries her nephew and his wife alive in her spot thus giving the grave two "children" instead.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).