Tales from the Crypt #44 Gaines File Pedigree 11/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $5,040.00

Sold: Mar 31, 2022

Tales from the Crypt #44 Values

Publisher: EC, 1954

About Tales from the Crypt #44

Guillotine cover by Jack Davis. Art by Davis, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, 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

(5 Stories)

Title: Forever Ambergris

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host); Eileen Harper (Ben's wife); Ben Harper (Sultana's 1st Mate, death); Captain Matt Starke (villain, Sultana skipper)

Synopsis: A sea captain murders a man for his wife by having him row out to a plague island where he contracts the disease. When he is rotting away they toss him overboard, but a whale swallows him and then vomits him up. The captain knows the spew is valuable for perfume so he collects it and presents it to the murdered man's wife where she dons it in the bathroom and opens the door to reveal her instantaneously rotting flesh.

Pages: 8.000

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: Burial at Sea

Characters: The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A man kills an old man for 30 thirty gold coins and thinks that there must be more to the treasure when he finds a treasure map locating a spot just offshore under water. The old man claimed he had been 'prepared' for him and when he visits the location marked underwater he realizes the old man was right as it is a grave marker with his name on it that falls over on his diving suit keeping him pinned until he drowns.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (signed)

Inks: Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (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 Proposal

Characters: The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis: A woman who uses men to stay surrounded by the finer things in life finally hears what she wants to hear "I want you for my wife." In this case, her intended sucker literally wants her for a meal to his undead blood-sucker wife.

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: The Sliceman Cometh

Characters: The Old Witch (host); corpse; executioner (villain, death)

Synopsis: An executioner during the Terror, who takes money from a relative in order to guillotine his brother, finds he has a difficult time in getting rid of the head. Eventually he becomes frustrated with his efforts to dispose of the ever-returning head and picks up a cleaver and minces it. That evening, he receives a visit from the corpse who wants its head back, and finding that not possible, rips the head from the executioner's shoulders to use in its place.

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	0	0	0	2	2	12	22	14	14	14	21	15	13	9	9	9	3	4	4	2	3	5	0	0	0	177
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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
Restored	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Total	0	0	0	3	2	12	23	14	16	14	21	15	15	9	10	9	4	4	4	2	3	5	0	0	0	185

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