Tales from the Crypt #40 Gaines File Pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $7,800.00
Sold: Nov 6, 2025
Tales from the Crypt #40 Values
Publisher: EC, 1954
About Tales from the Crypt #40
Jack Davis cover and art. George Evans, Bernie Krigstein, and Graham Ingels art. Used in Senate hearings and in Hartford Courant anti-comics editorials.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)
Inks: Jack Davis (signed)
Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979), | Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric (Marta's lover, animal trainer, death); Marta (Carl's wife, circus mind reader); Carl (villain, Marta's husband, thought projector, death); a ghoul (villain)
Synopsis: A woman plots to run away with the circus animal trainer because her husband, even though he can project his thoughts to her which they use as their act, does not love her. The husband tumbles to the plot and forces the animal trainer at gunpoint into the lion's cage where he is torn apart. The wife suspects him but has no proof and so when the husband is accidentally paralyzed when a beam lands upon him while the circus packs up, she ignores his thoughts for help and coldly advises them not to embalm him so that he is buried alive.
Pages: 8.000
Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils: Jack Davis
Inks: Jack Davis
Letters: Jim Wroten
Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #4 (1979)
Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 187 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Total | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 17 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 202 |
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