{"id":2632,"date":"2020-08-10T07:08:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2020-07-20T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T05:10:45","slug":"450-rx-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/450-rx-death\/","title":{"rendered":"450 – Rx… Death!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Tales from the Crypt #20, June 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“Crypt of Terror” is renamed again to the name it will forever be remembered for with Tales from the Crypt<\/a> #20 (June 1950). “Rx… Death!” is perhaps a cute little six page allegory about substance abuse. Gregg’s live-in sister Janet notices that Gregg spends all his evenings studying and working and stressing. Insisting he get a medical checkup, the doctor prescribes some medicine, and wouldn’t you know it, the medicine works and Gregg begins to spend the evenings wining and dining and enjoying his life again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there’s a problem: Turns out the pharmacist was sent the wrong chemical. In fact, the chemical acts a lot like digestive enzymes, and poor Gregg is rotting from the inside; literally his body is digesting itself. The doctor comes back to explain this horror to Janet and she notices something dripping onto her hand:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another panel from Tales from the Crypt #20, June 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ol’ Gregg is nothing more than a heaving angry blob by the end of it – thankfully we, as a reader, don’t get to see much of it – just a shapeless dark mass with burning eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final panel of “Rx… Death!” from Tales from the Crypt #20, June 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wow – what an ending! I think this is my favorite type of tale: gruesome, while still leaving a lot to the imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Crypt of Terror” is renamed again to the name it will forever be remembered for with Tales from the Crypt #20 (June 1950). “Rx… Death!” is perhaps a cute little six page allegory about substance abuse. Gregg’s live-in sister Janet notices that Gregg spends all his evenings studying and working and stressing. Insisting he get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,350,397,369],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-458","tag-ec","tag-horror-comics","tag-tales-from-the-crypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}