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hoohoo:
IM from New Zealand, but live in Australia... I dont collect comics as such, but I have been buying old ones for a while. I usually like old horror comics.

There was one I had as a kid that Id really like to read again, The story  was set in a prison, this guy makes a deal with the undertaker, when the next person dies he will sneak into the coffin and get buried with the dead prisoner. Then that night the undertaker will dig him up and release him and get paid...

   So the guy waits n waits, excited his plan works, as time goes on he starts to think hes been double crossed.  Then he lights a match  to find the body of the dead prisoner is actually the undertaker...   I would love to read it again, this is what got me buying n looking for old horror comics...hahahaa.


  I will look through what I have and if any look like that can be scanned and upped without causing any infringements and stuff...I will share em.

tilliban:
Huhu, hoohoo!

I know that story from your childhood you're looking for.
I talked about it on my German horror website:

http://fifties-horror.de/lesewiese/the-good/my-coffin-is-crowded

And now I'm trying to figure out where I got it from...
Wait for it... Internet connection's shot... there it is:

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-coffin-is-crowded.html

Enjoy.

hoohoo:
Hey man, thanks for that....  The story is close, but thats not the one. From what I read though on your blog its a story re hashed many times.

The prison was really old, drawn in the style of an old castle. The guy buried next to him is the undertaker. It was one of those comics from late 60's early 70's where theres about 6 stories in each issue with differring artists. No colour panels either, all black n white.  Its weird cause its one of those stories that really freaked me out as a kid reading it. My dad used to love those comics, and hed give them to my brother n I after he read them.

   I really appreciate you taking the time to message, thank sooo much man. I have bookmarked ya blog, looks very cool.

josemas:
Given the time frame you mention it sounds like the story probably appeared in one of Myron Fass's Eerie Publications.  Fass wasn't shy about "borrowing" stories from 1950s horror comics and having them redrawn for his B/W magazines.
He published titles like Weird, Terror Tales, Witches Tales, Horror Tales, Tales of Voodoo, Tales from the Tomb and others

Here's a site that has a cover gallery of some of Fass's horror mags as well as info on them.

http://www.empire-of-the-claw.com/Eeriepubs_html/covers.htm

Best

Joe

tilliban:
That is a very good suspicion, Jose!
My first thought exactly.
But I checked on the very helpful Eerie Pub index (listing all reprints)

http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Miscellaneous/Keith%20Smith/Eerie%20Publications%20Index.htm

and it's not there!
Furthermore, Eerie Pubs did not rework any stories from Atlas/Marvel.

So we learn two things: These stories get rehashed even more than we ever dreamt of.
Second it must be some Warren rehash (EERIE/ CREEPY / VAMPIRELLA).
Skywald perhaps??

Can't find it, we have to consult 60s/70s experts.
 ::)

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