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Seasons 1-5 In Comic Form

posted 11 years ago by NeonManiac0
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Here's scans of the original EC comics that every episode from Seasons 1-5 was based on. Fair warning the links are graphic-heavy.

Seasons 1 and 2 - http://www.tv.com/shows/tales-from-the-crypt/forums/hbo-seasons-in-com ics-1-season-1-2-58677-809140/

Season 3 - http://www.tv.com/shows/tales-from-the-crypt/forums/hbo-seasons-in-com ics-2-season-3-58677-859977/

Season 4 - http://www.tv.com/shows/tales-from-the-crypt/forums/hbo-seasons-in-com ics-3-season-4-58677-909149/

Season 5 - http://www.tv.com/shows/tales-from-the-crypt/forums/hbo-seasons-in-com ics-season-5-58677-1044536/

Very interesting to compare them with the episode adaptations. Some are very close to the source material (with an obvious at the time 90s modernization) while others are entirely different.

[–] tigfewton 11 years ago

Thank you, sir. This is much appreciated.

[–] xfastfurious15 11 years ago

Thank you!!!! these are so great!
i just ordered 2 Vault of Horror comics from etsy.com so i am so excited!

[–] NeonManiac0 11 years ago

Sure thing, and also thank the guy who scanned them :)

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[–] NeonManiac0 11 years ago

Bumping this for others to read the comics.

[–] polysicsarebest 11 years ago

uhhhh

most useful post on imdb?

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Shuji Terayama forever.

[–] MisterDenton 11 years ago

Thanks for sharing the link, this is super cool! I think the most interesting thing about these, compared to the TV show, is that the comics are much simpler. Whereas the episodes often had a double twist ending, these stories usually don't.

For example, the Horror House comic just had the guys die, but the TV series added in the whole sorority of ghouls plotline. And with Forever Ambergris, it was the girlfriend herself who decided to poison herself and her lover, as opposed to the original comic where she is an accidental casualty. I think in this way, the TV series made the stories more multi-dimensional, and in some cases better, but I do love the style of the comics and it's neat to see the stories in their original forms.

[–] NeonManiac0 11 years ago

I'm sure when the stories were adapted for the show they touched up the stories considerably. Sometimes a simple illustration can only go so far as far as serving as a storyboard before you have to elaborate more on it.

[–] NeonManiac0 11 years ago

With the board purge that wiped quite a few topics from this board, giving this another bump to keep this at the top.

[–] NeonManiac0 10 years ago

A user recently posted about the comics in a new thread here, giving this another bump for him and others to see.

[–] gljbradley 10 years ago

Thank you so much, Cyborg! I love reading the original comic book versions of the episodes on the show are based off of.

[–] gljbradley 10 years ago

I'm not even half way through reading these and I'm still enjoying them. And as you said, Cyborg, some of the comics are entirely different from their TV versions. When I gotten finished reading one of them and thought back to the episode, I was like, "Wow. Don't remember that from the show. Interesting.".

[–] NeonManiac0 10 years ago

Glad you've enjoyed them :)

I'm sure the TFTC crew had to expand or alter the original comic stories considerably, sometimes there's only so much an illustration gives you to go on when you just have to expand upon the source material to make it work in a film/TV medium.

[–] gljbradley 10 years ago

I agree completely. The TFTC crew must've had quite a time trying to adapt some of the stories and as you said, alter some of them so that would make a little more sense to the television audiences. In most cases, I'd say they did the right thing.

You know, I would've love to have also seen stories like Taint The Meat...It's The Humanity, Foul Play, The Silent Treatment, Mess Call, and Zombie! get adapted into episodes in the show.

[–] Razor187 10 years ago

Zombie! was one they did an audio drama for.

And so Governor Devlin, because even the cost of freedom can be too high, I REFUSE your pardon!

[–] gljbradley 10 years ago

Oh yeah. They sure did! I remember that TFTC radio show they did for a brief time.

[–] gljbradley 10 years ago

I wonder where are the seasons 6 & 7 comics? I know that Revenge Is Nuts is based off of Blind Alleys.

[–] NeonManiac0 10 years ago

Seems the person who posted the scans never got around to that I'd like to see scans for some of the episodes from those two seasons.