Tales from the Crypt #45 Values

Publisher: EC, 1954

About Tales from the Crypt #45

Cover by Jack Davis. Story art by Davis, Jack Kamen, Bernie Krigstein, and Graham Ingels.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979), | Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Telescope

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eric Walford (seaman on the Bramwell, death)

Synopsis: A man and a rat from a ship wreck wash up on an island and eye each other warily as the only food source available.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Title: The Substitute

Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A man assumes that the body of the governor of the penal colony he is a prisoner in will be sent back to Paris, so he kills him with a poisoned dart from a blowgun and makes plans to switch places with his body in the casket. They nail him in and bury him at sea.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

Title: Murder Dream

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Howard Leighton (death) [as Claude Grymes in dream sequences]; Cathy Leighton (Howard's wife, death); Claude Grymes (villain, house caretaker)

Synopsis: A maniac ax-murderer assumes his victim's identity in his dreams until he is compelled to return to the scene of the crime to murder the victim's wife as well.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed); Jack Davis (Crypt Keeper illustration in masthead)

Inks: Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed); Jack Davis (Crypt Keeper illustration in masthead)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

Notes: Layout, Jack Davis, letterer and colorist credits by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Much of story told in dream sequences.

Title: The Switch

Characters: The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis: An old millionaire falls in love with a young woman but he doesn't want her to marry him for his money so he tells her he's poor. She puts him off telling him his face is too old-looking and he still has an old-man's body so he gets a doctor to do an expensive face and torso transplant, but she still isn't satisfied because of his legs. He spends the last of his fortune to swap out his legs and she marries the man he has swapped body parts with because she only wanted to marry a millionaire.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inks: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Tales from the Crypt (Russ Cochran, 1979 series) #5 (1979)

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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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
Universal	1	0	2	5	2	8	6	15	18	15	12	9	11	12	7	3	4	7	5	1	5	0	0	0	0	148
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Total	2	0	2	5	2	9	6	17	18	17	12	11	11	13	7	3	4	7	5	1	5	0	0	0	0	157

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