The CRYPT KEEPER – the iconic host of HBO’S iconic TALES FROM THE CRYPT TV series – was just an animatronic puppet of course. But he completely represented everything about the show. He was and is the show’s “franchise”. But, if there was a “real” Crypt Keeper – a kind of Ground Zero for everything Tales From The Crypt – it was EC COMICS publisher WILLIAM M. GAINES (Bill Gaines – who also created MAD MAGAZINE). In creating the Crypt Keeper (he only exists in the show; he appears nowhere in the EC comic books), what we were really trying […]
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